Health Affairs

Article	Citations
Medicare, COVID-19, And More	186
Costly Barriers: A Student’s Struggle With Medicaid Access	137
Availability Of Adult Dental Plans In The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, 2016–23	113
The Indian Health Service Is Associated With Higher-Quality Perinatal Care For American Indian And Alaska Native People	111
Empowering A New Kind Of Research Team To Study Substance Use	103
Trauma Center Hospitals Charged Higher Prices For Some Nontrauma Care Than Non–Trauma Center Hospitals, 2012–18	92
The Effect Of Labor Unions On Nursing Home Compliance With OSHA’s Workplace Injury And Illness Reporting Requirement	91
Health Insurance Coverage Projections For The US Population And Sources Of Coverage, By Age, 2024–34	85
Structural Inequities In The Adoption Of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Services By US Hospitals, 2000–20	74
The Impact Of COVID-19 On The Health Of Incarcerated Older Adults In California State Prisons	74
Identifying Under- And Overutilization Patterns For Idaho Youth With Serious Emotional Disturbance	68
Georgia’s Reinsurance Waiver Associated With Decreased Premium Affordability And Enrollment	67
SSDI Beneficiaries Had Elevated Mortality During The 2-Year Waiting Period For Medicare, 2000–21	63
Rapid Disenrollment Rates Tripled For Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries, 2017–22	61
Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans	61
Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19	58
Controlling Spending For Health Care And Long-Term Care: Japan’s Experience With A Rapidly Aging Society	56
Private Equity Acquisition Of Substance Use Treatment Centers Increases Probability Of Public Health Insurance Acceptance	54
Medicare Advantage Networks Include Few Black Or Hispanic Physicians, Making Concordant Care Inaccessible For Many	54
High Job Flexibility And Paid Sick Leave Increase Health Care Access And Use Among US Workers	53
Adopting Weight-Based Dosing With Pharmacy-Level Stewardship Strategies Could Reduce Cancer Drug Spending By Millions	52
Accelerated Approval Of Cancer Drugs: No Economic Reward For Drug Makers That Conduct Confirmatory Trials	51
Access Problems And Cost Concerns Of Younger Medicare Beneficiaries Exceeded Those Of Older Beneficiaries In 2019	51
Neighborhoods And Health: Interventions At The Neighborhood Level Could Help Advance Health Equity	50
Cultivating Vital Conditions For Perinatal Well-Being And A Sustained Commitment To Reproductive Justice	49

Geography And Fentanyl: Explaining The Disproportionate Rise In Opioid Overdose Deaths Among Black Americans	49
Increasing Access To Perinatal Mental Health Care: The Perinatal Psychiatry Access Program Model	48
Medicaid Expansion Lowered Uninsurance Rates Among Nonelderly Adults In The Most Heavily Redlined Areas	47
Estimating The Impact Of Out-Of-Pocket Cost Changes On Abandonment Of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis	46
‘Most Favored Nation’ Drug Pricing Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come	45
Medicare Advantage Star Rating Quality Gains Were Concentrated In A Narrow Set Of Clinical And Medication Measures, 2015–25	44
Race And Racial Perceptions Shape Burden Tolerance For Medicaid And The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program	43
Community Power–Building Groups And Public Health NGOs: Reimagining Public Health Advocacy	43
Proposing A Racism-Conscious Approach To Policy Making And Health Care Practices	42
Food Insufficiency Increased After The Expiration Of COVID-19 Emergency Allotments For SNAP Benefits In 2023	41
COVID-19 Vaccination Of People Experiencing Homelessness And Incarceration In Minnesota	40
‘Housing First’ Increased Psychiatric Care Office Visits And Prescriptions While Reducing Emergency Visits	40
Improved Insurance Coverage Increased Biosimilar Semglee’s Market Share After The FDA’s Interchangeability Designation	40
The Community As A Full Partner: A New Model For Public Health	39
California’s COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Policy: Cases, Hospitalizations, And Deaths Averted In Affected Communities	39
Trends In Patient Cost Sharing For Hospital Care And Implications For Urban And Rural Hospital Revenue	39
After Risk-Adjustment Change, Dementia Diagnoses Increased In Medicare Advantage Relative To Traditional Medicare	38
Rapid Growth Of Remote Patient Monitoring Is Driven By A Small Number Of Primary Care Providers	37
Health Care Costs Associated With Hospice Use For People With Dementia In The US	37
A ‘Communiversity’ Seeks To Reduce Local Environmental Hazards	37
Perinatal Depression Associated With Increased Pediatric Emergency Department Use And Charges In The First Year Of Life	36
Health Insurance Coverage In Low- And Middle-Income Countries Remains Far From The Goal Of Universal Coverage	36
Care Management For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The Roles Of Nurses, Pharmacists, And Social Workers	36
Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Buprenorphine Receipt Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2015–19	34
Demographic Variation In US Outpatient Hydroxychloroquine And Ivermectin Use During The COVID-19 Pandemic	34
Black, Hispanic, And Asian Adults In The US Had Substantially Lower Engagement On The Naloxone Care Cascade, 2024	34
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Health Care Utilization And Expenditures In Adulthood	34
Medicare Risk Adjustment: Goals, Reform Proposals, And New Frontiers	34
Loneliness Among Older Adults	33
Pharmaceuticals, Private Equity, Child Health, And More	33
Prescription Digital Therapeutics: Devices	33
Errata	33
Risk Adjustment, Insurance Markets, And More	32
Ambulance Destinations, Race, And Ethnicity	32
Statement Of Ownership & Circulation	32
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Certifications: Higher-Volume Physicians Associated With Less Evidence Of Care Coordination	32
For Some Patients, Better Health Starts With Finding A Home	32
Statement Of Ownership & Circulation	31
Changes In Net Prices And Spending For Pharmaceuticals After The Introduction Of New Therapeutic Competition, 2011–19	30
Adolescent Residential Addiction Treatment In The US: Uneven Access, Waitlists, And High Costs	30
Expanded Contraceptive Access Linked To Increase In College Completion Among Women In Colorado	30
FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation Reduced Late-Stage Drug Development Time	29
Transforming Public Health Practice With Generative Artificial Intelligence	29
Integrating Maternity Care Through Bundled Payments In The Netherlands: Early Results And Policy Lessons	29
Can Innovative Financing Move The Needle On Health Equity?	28
How Industrial Policy Could Accelerate Innovation In The Life Sciences	28
Waiting For On-Call Care	28
Disability And Health	28
Children, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, And More	27
Rural Hospitals Experienced More Patient Volume Variability Than Urban Hospitals During The COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020–21	27

Making Time For More Compassionate Care	27
Combining Patient Survey Data With Diagnosis Codes Improved Medicare Advantage Risk-Adjustment Accuracy	26
COVID-19 Revealed Shortcomings Of The US Public Health System And The Need To Strengthen Funding And Accountability	26
Saving Medicaid And Ourselves	26
Variation And Changes In The Targeting Of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments	26
Africa Is Sliding Into Catastrophe Before Our Eyes	26
US Nonprofit Hospitals Have Widely Varying Criteria To Decide Who Qualifies For Free And Discounted Charity Care	25
Use Of Social Determinants Of Health Z Codes Was Sparse, 2016–22	25
Health Savings Accounts No Longer Promote Consumer Cost-Consciousness	24
Health Insurance As Climate Adaptation: A Practical Framework	24
Antidepressant Prescriptions Increased For Privately Insured People With Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorder, 2008–20	24
Medicare Part D Protected-Class Policy Is Associated With Lower Drug Rebates	24
Workforce Composition In Private Equity–Acquired Versus Non–Private Equity–Acquired Physician Practices	23
Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments During Pregnancy Were Associated With Decreased Odds Of Adverse Birth Outcomes	23
Growth In Number Of Practices And Clinicians Participating In Concierge And Direct Primary Care, 2018–23	23
Mitigating Racial And Ethnic Bias And Advancing Health Equity In Clinical Algorithms: A Scoping Review	23
Medicare Advantage Plans Pay Large Markups To Consolidated Dialysis Organizations	23
Mortal Systemic Exclusion Yielded Steep Mortality-Rate Increases In People Experiencing Homelessness, 2011–20	23
Price Transparency, Medicare, Medicaid, And More	22
COVID-19 Federal Funding To Health Centers: Tracking Distribution, Locations, And Patient Characteristics	22
Comparing The Effects Of Nudges And Automatic Plan Switching On Choice Errors Among Low-Income Marketplace Enrollees	22
ETR	22
Characteristics Of Medical Device Shortages In The US, 2006–20	22
To Profit Or Not? Lessons From The Insurance Front Lines	22
A Strategy To Support Perinatal Mental Health By Collaborating With Tribal Communities In Montana	22
Realities Of Revitalizing US Biomedical Research	22
Medigap Regulations Provide Protections For Beneficiaries, Especially After Health Shocks, But May Raise Premiums	22
Foreign-Born Workers Made Up Half The Increase In The Direct Care Workforce In Home And Community Settings, 2012–22	21
A Foundation For Health And Well-Being: Meaningful Employment	21
Private Equity Acquisition Of Primary Care Practices: Modest Growth In Clinicians Offset By Increased Clinician Exits	21
Prescription Digital Therapeutics: Assertions	21
When Safety-Net Programs Compete: Medicaid, 340B, And The Battle Over Drug Discounts	20
Medicaid And Methadone For Opioid Use Disorder: Expanded Coverage Increased Distribution In 10 States, 2019–24	20
Minnesota Public Health Corps: A New Model For Building The Governmental Public Health Workforce	20
Continuous Eligibility And Coverage Policies Expanded Children’s Medicaid Enrollment	20
Fluctuating State Medicaid Dental Coverage: Asymmetric Impact Of Benefit Cuts And Expansions, 2010–21	20
Favorable Selection Among Dually Enrolled Beneficiaries In Private Medicare Plans	20
Benchmarking Changes And Selective Participation In The Medicare Shared Savings Program	19
Value-Based Purchasing Design And Effect: A Systematic Review And Analysis	19
COVID-19 Disruption To Routine Health Care Services: How 8 Latin American And Caribbean Countries Responded	19
Anatomy Of A Slowdown: Decomposing The Moderation In Health Spending Growth, 2009–19	19
Rhode Island’s Affordability Standards Led To Hospital Price Reductions And Lower Insurance Premiums	19
Maternal Contact With Child Protective Services Associated With Less Postpartum Care In Wisconsin, 2010–19	19
Judicial Decisions Constraining Public Health Powers During COVID-19: Implications For Public Health Policy Making	18
To The Best Friend Who Gave Up On Me, 20 Years Later	18
Early OxyContin Marketing Linked To Long-Term Spread Of Infectious Diseases Associated With Injection Drug Use	18
Medicare Advantage: National Carriers Expand Market Share While Regional Carriers Without Affiliation Decline, 2012–23	18
Under Global Budgets, Hospital Utilization In Maryland Decreased By 11 Percentage Points More Than In Other States, 2013–23	18
Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare Differences: The Authors Reply	18
Oregon Community Benefit Reform Influenced Not-For-Profit Hospitals’ Charity Care And Medical Debt Write-Off	18
Opioid Use Disorder Medicaid Waivers: The Authors Reply	18
How Phantom Networks And Other Barriers Impede Progress On Mental Health Insurance Reform	18
Food Insecurity, Missed Workdays, And Hospitalizations Among Working-Age US Adults With Diabetes	17
Health Insurance Coverage Among Black Immigrant Adults	17
Studies Of Prescription Digital Therapeutics Often Lack Rigor And Inclusivity	17
Dual-Eligible Nursing Home Residents: Enrollment Growth In Managed Care Plans That Coordinate Care, 2013–20	17
Losing Our Way In A Rare Disease Diagnostic Odyssey	17
The Risk Of Perpetuating Health Disparities Through Cost-Effectiveness Analyses	16
National Health Expenditure Projections, 2022–31: Growth To Stabilize Once The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends	16
Intended And Unintended Outcomes After FDA Pediatric Antidepressant Warnings: A Systematic Review	16
Increases In COVID-19 Vaccination Among NYC Municipal Employees After Implementation Of Vaccination Requirements	16
Buprenorphine Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder: Comparison Of Insurance Restrictions, 2017–21	16
how fouled the senses	16
Disparities In Diabetes-Related Lower Extremity Amputations In The United States: A Systematic Review	16
Availability Versus Accessibility: Identifying COVID-19 Testing Deserts Across Massachusetts	16
The Relationships Among Cash Prices, Negotiated Rates, And Chargemaster Prices For Shoppable Hospital Services	16
Medicare Advantage Enrollment Since The ACA: What The Projections Did Not Foresee	16
As Hospitals Restrict Visitors, What Constitutes A ‘Good Death’?	16
Medicaid, Drug Pricing, Aging, And More	15
Inequities In The Use Of High-Quality Home Health	15
Bridging The Gap From Maternal Crises To Care	15
More Than Methadone Dispensers: The Authors Reply	15
Reimagining Public Health	15
The Costs Of Disparities In Preventable Heart Failure Hospitalizations In The US South, 2015–17	15
Public Health During COVID-19 And More	15
Provider Relief Funds And Hospital Profits: The Authors Reply	15
Standing Up For My Sister	15
Supporting Formerly Incarcerated People With Recovery	15
Estimated Savings From Extending Prescription Drug Inflationary Rebates To All Commercial Plans	15
Patients Receive Flexible And Accessible Care When State Workforce Barriers Are Removed	15

New Cancer Drug Approvals: Less Than Half Of Important Clinical Trial Uncertainties Reported By The FDA To Clinicians, 2019–22	14
State-Level Variation In Low-Value Care For Commercially Insured And Medicare Advantage Populations	14
Four Opportunities To Revitalize The US Biomedical Research Enterprise	14
After 50 Years, Health Professional Shortage Areas Had No Significant Impact On Mortality Or Physician Density	14
Understanding And Comparing Economic Assistance Models To Improve Food Security And Diet Quality: A Rapid Review	14
Medicare, Cancer Care, And More	14
The Youth Mental Health Crisis In The US: Lack Of Political Will Poses The Greatest Barrier To Meaningful Action	14
Extended Postpartum Medicaid In Colorado Associated With Increased Treatment For Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorders	14
Nursing Home Staffing: Share Of Immigrant Certified Nursing Assistants Grew As US-Born Staff Numbers Fell, 2010–21	14
Perinatal Care Measures Are Incomplete If They Do Not Assess The Birth Parent–Infant Dyad As A Whole	14
Prescription Real-Time Benefit Tools: Clinicians Receive Frequent Alerts Yet Rarely Accept The Suggested Changes	14
Public Perceptions Of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies In Europe: Socioeconomic Status And Trust Were Factors	14
Health Spending, Physician Practice, And More	14
Hospitals Acquired By Private Equity Firms: Increased Postoperative Mortality For Common Inpatient Surgeries	14
Trend Toward Older Maternal Age Contributed To Growing Racial Inequity In Very-Low-Birthweight Infants In The US	14
Financial Coaching Offers New Paths To A Healthy Future	13
Is It Working? Evaluating The First Round Of Medicare Drug Price Negotiations	13
Substantial Growth In Medicare Advantage And Implications For Reform	13
Criminalized For Reproducing: Parenthood, Displacement, And War	13
Reimagining Public Health: Mapping A Path Forward	13
Stipends From Hospitals To Emergency Medicine And Anesthesiology Clinicians Increased In California, 2002–21	13
Strategic Selection And Pricing Power: Optum’s Acquisitions Of Ambulatory Surgery Centers And Physician Practices	13
Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Via Community Resources: Lessons From Accountable Health Communities	13
Medicare Local Coverage Determinations: Evidence Quality Is Stronger For Covered Indications	13
Racial And Ethnic Inequities In Postpartum Depressive Symptoms, Diagnosis, And Care In 7 US Jurisdictions	13
Reduced Medicare Advantage Insurer Concentration Associated With Small Improvements In Market Outcomes, 2013–23	13
State Laws Banning Prior Authorization For Medications For Opioid Use Disorder Increased Substantially, 2015–23	13
Medicaid Payment For Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Prompts More Equitable Use	13
Economic Well-Being And Health: The Role Of Income Support Programs In Promoting Health And Advancing Health Equity	13
Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnoses Among Commercially Insured People Increased, 2008–20	13
Third-Party Convener Firms And The Rise Of Geographically Dispersed, High-Earning Medicare ACOs	13
Loss Of Public Health Emergency Funds Challenges The Financial Viability Of Nursing Homes, Especially Not-For-Profit Facilities	12
Patent Challenges And Litigation On Inhalers For Asthma And COPD	12
Naloxone Access And Harm Reduction Among AANHPI Communities	12
Excess Deaths Will Continue In The United States Until The Root Causes Are Addressed	12
Street Medicine For OUD After Emergency Department Visit: The Authors Reply	12
My Story Of Trauma And Reproductive Health	12
Terror Kingdom	12
State Eviction Moratoriums During The COVID-19 Pandemic Were Associated With Improved Mental Health Among People Who Rent	12
Reflections On Epidemiological Modeling To Inform Policy During The COVID-19 Pandemic In Western Europe, 2020–23	12
proc prun / roses	12
Caring For The Body And Mind In Long-Term Care	12
Meeting Care Needs, Pharmaceuticals, And More	12
Reclaiming Ancestral Abundance	12
Behavioral Health, Nursing Home Workforce, And More	12
Health Care Workers In A Storm’s Path	12
Many Clinicians Implement Digital Equity Strategies To Treat Opioid Use Disorder	12
US National Spending On Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Treatment Driven By Case Growth, 2000–21	12
Health Care Workforce Pay Gaps: COVID-19 Modestly Compressed Wage Disparities, 2015–24	12
Insights About The Opioid Crisis	12
State Variations In Progress Toward Eliminating Disparities In Infant Mortality, 2007–19	12
Drug Coverage Policies And Clinical Guidelines Alignment: Most Coverage Decisions Include Additional Restrictions	12
State Mandates On Naloxone Coprescribing Associated With Short-Term Increase In Naloxone Codispensing	12
Advance Care Planning	11
Health Benefits In 2024: Higher Premiums Persist, Employer Strategies For GLP-1 Coverage And Family-Building Benefits	11
Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Failed To Achieve Hospital Readmission Reductions And Other Targets	11
Medicaid Asset Limits And Enrollment Among Older Adults And People With Disabilities	11
From Laggard To Leader: Why Health Care In The United States Is Failing, And How To Fix It	11
Expected Out-Of-Pocket Costs: Comparing Medicare Advantage With Fee-For-Service Medicare	11
Factors Influencing Rural Hospitals’ Decisions To Join An Alternative Payment Model: A Mixed-Methods Study	11
Coming Up Short: How Cancer Drug Shortages Affect Care	11
Contraceptives At The Counter: Pharmacists Prescribed A Fraction Of Overall Contraceptives, 2022	11
Ukraine: A Humanitarian Disaster With Long-Term Consequences	11
Differences In Debt Among Postgraduate Medical Residents By Self-Designated Race And Ethnicity, 2014–19	11
Increases In Physician Professional Fees In Private Equity–Owned Gastroenterology Practices	11
Promoting Access To Hospital Care In Rural Areas: Current Approaches And Ongoing Challenges	11
Abortion Restrictions Threaten Miscarriage Management In The United States	11
Learning The Limits Of Health Care Sharing Plans	11
Erratum	11
Drugs Are Not Microchips: Whither Industrial Policy In The Life Sciences?	11
Higher Rates Of Homelessness Are Associated With Increases In Mortality From Accidental Drug And Alcohol Poisonings	11
Equity And Justice In Food As Medicine	11
Tubal Sterilization And Vasectomy Increased Among US Young Adults After The Dobbs Supreme Court Decision In 2022	11
Medicaid: Increased Patient Access To MOUD In Residential Treatment Associated With Facility Openings And Closures, 2012–22	11
The COVID-19 Pandemic Led To A Large Decline In Physician Gross Revenue Across All Specialties In 2020	11
Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Epidemiological, Social, And Economic Impact Of COVID-19 In Latin America And The Caribbean	10
Cancer Drugs, Medical Debt, Cybersecurity, And More	10
Transgender Adults Have Higher Rates Of Disability Than Their Cisgender Counterparts	10
Insurance Denials And Cost Sharing For PrEP Among Sexual And Gender Minority People	10
Does Assisted Living Provide Assistance And Promote Living?	10
Evaluating Medicaid Managed Care Network Adequacy Standards And Associations With Specialty Care Access For Children	10
Narrow Dialysis Networks In Medicare Advantage: Exposure By Race, Ethnicity, And Dual Eligibility	10
Housing And Health	10
Private Equity Acquisitions In Primary Care: Changes In Utilization, Spending, And Workforce	10
Changes In Clinicians’ Participation Across Medicare Value-Based Payment Models, 2017–22	10
Drug Prices, Behavioral Health, Hospitals, And More	10
Cancer Drug Trastuzumab And Its Biosimilars Compete On Price For Market Share	10
Bundled Payments For Care Improvement Advanced: Effects On Hospital And CMS Spending, 2018–21	10
Hospital- And Private Equity–Affiliated Specialty Physicians Negotiate Higher Prices Than Independent Physicians	10
Estimating Medicaid Reimbursement For Psychological Services	10
Lack Of Persistent Coding In Traditional Medicare May Widen The Risk-Score Gap With Medicare Advantage	10
A History Of The Impacts Of Discriminatory Policies On Housing And Maternal And Infant Health In An Ohio Neighborhood	10
The Role Of Real Estate Investment Trusts In Staffing US Nursing Homes	10
Trauma Activation Fees Vary Widely Across US Trauma Centers	10
State Out-Of-Pocket Caps On Insulin Costs: No Significant Increase In Claims Or Utilization	10