Innovation in Home Care: Time for a New Payment Model: The Journal of the American Medical Association

This Viewpoint discusses the need for new payment models to incentivize innovations in personalized home care and facilitate transitions already occurring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to develop lower-cost higher-quality approaches to home-based management of chronic illnesses such as heart failure and Parkinson disease.

Health-Related Social Needs Among Older Adults Enrolled In Medicare Advantage.

Among older adults enrolled in Medicare Advantage, health-related social needs are highly prevalent, with financial strain, food insecurity, and poor housing quality the most commonly reported. The distribution of health-related social needs is uneven, with significant disparities according to race, socioeconomic status, and sex.

Association Between Primary Care Payment Model and Telemedicine Use for Medicare Advantage Enrollees During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

This cohort study examines the association between the primary care payment model and telemedicine use for Medicare Advantage enrollees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies For A New Administration.

It is likely that 2021 will be a dynamic year for US health care policy. There is pressing need and opportunity for health reform that helps achieve better access, affordability, and equity. In this commentary, which is part of the National Academy of Medicine's Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2021 initiative, we draw on our collective backgrounds in health financing, delivery, and innovation to offer consensus-based policy recommendations focused on health costs and financing. We organize our recommendations around five policy priorities: expanding insurance coverage, accelerating the transition to value-based care, advancing home-based care, improving the affordability of drugs and other therapeutics, and developing a high-value workforce. Within each priority we provide recommendations for key elected officials and political appointees that could be used as starting points for evidence-based policy making that supports a more effective, efficient, and equitable health system in the US.

Medicare Advantage providers, patients connect without a playbook: a Q&A with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the journal, each issue in 2020 will include an interview with a health care thought leader. The November issue features a conversation with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, chief medical officer of Humana.