Health Policy
Leemore Dafny, PhD
free access
JAMA. 2021;325(10):927-928. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.0038
This Viewpoint proposes 3 steps the Biden administration can take to slow consolidation within health care, which has been shown to raise costs without improving service or quality: better fund federal antitrust enforcement agencies; appoint agency heads committed to enforcement; and create an interagency task force devoted to enhancing competition.
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Editorial
Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege: A New Series on US Health Care and Health Policy
Howard Bauchner, MD; Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, MBA; Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH
JAMA
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Video:
Health Care Reform in the Biden Era
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Conversations with Dr Bauchner:
Health Care Reform in the Biden Era
Health Policy
Robert P. Kocher, MD; Soleil Shah, MSc; Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD
JAMA. 2021;325(10):929-930. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.0079
This Viewpoint reviews the conditions which incentivize consolidation of health systems, hospitals, and physician practices into entities that decrease health care quality and increase prices, and in the context of financial pressures wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic proposes policy solutions that could protect patients against potential adverse effects of accelerating trends toward consolidation.
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Editorial
Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege: A New Series on US Health Care and Health Policy
Howard Bauchner, MD; Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, MBA; Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH
JAMA
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Video:
Health Care Reform in the Biden Era
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Conversations with Dr Bauchner:
Health Care Reform in the Biden Era
Christopher A. Longhurst, MD, MS; Brendan Kremer, MHA; Patricia S. Maysent, MBA, MHA
free access
JAMA. 2021;325(10):931-932. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.0801
This Viewpoint details lessons learned from a county-private-university collaboration in San Diego to stand up a coronavirus vaccine superstation to immunize 4500-5000 people daily, detailing optimization of patient throughput and ways to monitor adverse events and document vaccine administration at scale.
Richard M. Hoffman, MD, MPH; Daniel S. Reuland, MD, MPH; Robert J. Volk, PhD
has audio
JAMA. 2021;325(10):933-934. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.1817
This Viewpoint discusses implications of the USPSTF 2021 lung cancer screening recommendation update, which broadens the number of patients eligible for screening, for CMS鈥� shared decision-making requirement, arguing that to make shared decision-making a reality, CMS should reimburse these visits delivered by nonphysician staff and/or telehealth.
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Conversations with Dr Bauchner:
USPSTF Recommendation鈥擲creening for Lung Cancer
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP; Adam L. Beckman, BS; Suhas Gondi, BA
has audio
JAMA. 2021;325(10):935-936. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.0263
This Viewpoint characterizes correctional health care as a separate health system in the US responsible for the lives of 2 million citizens, but largely neglected by the quality improvement movement, and discusses ways to improve care, outcomes, and health care value for incarcerated individuals and populations.
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Conversations with Dr Bauchner:
The Triple Aim Applied to Correctional Health Systems