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Innovative Insurance to Improve US Patient Access to Cell and Gene Therapy. 创新保险提高美国患者获得细胞和基因治疗的机会。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12728
Rena M Conti, Patrick Demartino, Jonathan Gruber, Andrew W Lo, Yutong Sun, Jackie Wu
{"title":"Innovative Insurance to Improve US Patient Access to Cell and Gene Therapy.","authors":"Rena M Conti, Patrick Demartino, Jonathan Gruber, Andrew W Lo, Yutong Sun, Jackie Wu","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12728","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Policy Points Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) offer treatment for rare and oftentimes deadly disease, but their prices are high, and payers may seek to limit spending. Total annual costs of covering all existing and expected CGTs for the entire US population 2023-2035 to amount to less than $20 per person and concentrate in commercial and state Medicaid plans. Reinsurance fees add to expected costs. Policies that improve coverage and affordability are needed to assure patient access to CGTs.</p><p><strong>Context: </strong>Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) offer treatment to rare and oftentimes deadly diseases. Because of their high price and uncertain clinical outcomes, US insurers commonly restrain patient access to CGTs, and these barriers may create or perpetuate existing disparities. A reconsideration of existing insurance policies to improve access and reduce disparities is currently underway. One method insurers use to support access and protect them from large, unexpected claims is the purchase of reinsurance. In exchange for an upfront per-member-per-month (PMPM) premium, the reinsurer pays the claim and rebates the insurer at the end of the contract period if there are funds leftover. However, existing reinsurance plans may not cover CGTs or charge exorbitant fees for coverage.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We simulate the incremental annual per-person reinsurer costs to cover CGTs existing or expected between 2023 and 2035 for the US population and by payer type based on previously published estimates of expected US spending on CGTs, assumed US population of 330 persons, and current CGT reinsurance fees. We illustrate our methods by estimating the incremental annual per-person costs overall payers and to state Medicaid plans of sickle cell disease-targeted CGTs.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>We estimate annual incremental spending on CGTs 2023-2035 to amount to $20.4 billion, or $15.69 per person. Total annual estimated spending is expected to concentrate among commercial plans. Sickle cell-targeted CGTs add a maximum of $0.78 PMPM in costs to all payers and will concentrate within state Medicaid programs. Reinsurance fees add to expected costs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Annual per-person costs to provide access to CGTs are expected to concentrate in commercial and state Medicaid plans. Policies that improve CGT coverage and affordability are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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How Are You Doing… Really? A Review of Whole Person Health Assessments. 你过得怎么样?全人健康评估综述
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12727
Stephanie B Gold, Allison Costello, Maura Gissen, Selin Odman, Larry A Green, Kurt C Stange, Réna Swann, Rebecca S Etz
{"title":"How Are You Doing… Really? A Review of Whole Person Health Assessments.","authors":"Stephanie B Gold, Allison Costello, Maura Gissen, Selin Odman, Larry A Green, Kurt C Stange, Réna Swann, Rebecca S Etz","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12727","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Policy Points A redirection of measurement in health care from a narrow focus on diseases and care processes towards assessing whole person health, as perceived by the person themself, may provide a galvanizing view of how health care can best meet the needs of people and help patients feel heard, seen, and understood by their care team. This review identifies key tensions to navigate as well as four overarching categories of whole person health for consideration in developing an instrument optimized for clinical practice. The categories (body and mind, relationships, living environment and finances, and engagement in daily life) include nine constituent domains. To maximize value and avoid unintended consequences of implementing a new measure, it is essential to ensure adequate time with the person providing the responses. Use of the instrument should be framed around the goal of better understanding a person's whole health and strengthening their relationship with the care team and not for comparisons across physicians or meeting a target score.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context: &lt;/strong&gt;Frustration with the burden of proliferating measures in health care focused on diseases and care processes has added to the growing desire to measure what matters to people, including understanding how people are doing in terms of their whole health. There is no consensus in the literature on an ideal whole person health instrument for use in practice. To provide a foundation for assessing whole person health and support further instrument development, this review summarizes past work on assessing person-reported whole health, articulates conceptual domains encompassing whole health, and identifies lessons from existing instruments, including considerations for administration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methods: &lt;/strong&gt;A scoping literature review and instrument review were conducted. Concepts from the literature and instruments were thematically coded using a grounded theory approach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Findings: &lt;/strong&gt;We identified four overarching categories of whole person health, consisting of nine domains: body and mind (physical well-being, mental/emotional well-being, meaning and purpose [spiritual well-being], sexual well-being), relationships (social well-being), living environment and finances (financial well-being, environmental well-being), and engagement in daily life (autonomy and functioning, activities). A tenth domain of global well-being was used for instruments that assessed well-being as a whole. In total, 281 instruments were examined; most were specific to a single domain or subdomain. Fifty instruments assessed at least three domains; only five assessed all domains identified. Two key tensions must be navigated in the development of a whole person health instrument: comprehensiveness versus brevity, and standardization versus flexibility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusions: &lt;/strong&gt;The array of whole person health domains identified in this review and lack of con","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142957847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mental Health Treatment Access: Experience, Hypotheticals, and Public Opinion. 心理健康治疗途径:经验、假设和公众舆论。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12726
Jake Haselswerdt
{"title":"Mental Health Treatment Access: Experience, Hypotheticals, and Public Opinion.","authors":"Jake Haselswerdt","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12726","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Policy Points Policymakers should consider both material (e.g., cost) and attitudinal (e.g., skepticism) barriers to mental health treatment access. Public support for government action on mental health is high but varies based on experience-based and hypothetical beliefs about barriers to treatment. Appeals to personal experience and perspective-taking may be successful in building support for government action on mental health.</p><p><strong>Context: </strong>Mental health problems represent a major public health issue for the United States, and access to mental health treatment is both inadequate and unevenly distributed. There is a strong justification for government action on mental health treatment, but it is unclear whether there is a political constituency for such action. Existing work suggests that stigma and othering of people with mental illnesses contributes to reduced support for intervention. I expand on the existing literature by focusing on mental health as an issue that may apply to Americans' own lives rather than only to a stigmatized outgroup.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using original questions on a nationally representative 2023 survey of 1,000 American adults, I measured agreement with statements about barriers to mental health treatment access that respondents have experienced or, if they have not sought treatment, their hypothetical assessment of these barriers. I also measured their support for statements in favor of change to address mental health. I analyzed the demographic and political correlates of agreement with the barrier statements and used regressions to examine their possible causal effect on support for change.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Agreement with statements about access barriers follows expected patterns in some cases (e.g., socioeconomic status) but not in others (e.g., race/ethnicity). I also documented a notable partisan and ideological divide in these experiences and beliefs. I found that Americans who agreed that material factors are a barrier to access were more supportive of action on mental health, whereas those who agreed with statements suggesting discomfort or skepticism were less supportive.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that personal experience and perspective-taking should be integrated into the study of public opinion on mental health, complementing existing work on stigma and othering. Appeals to experience and perspective-taking may be a successful strategy for building public support for action on mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Comprehensiveness in Primary Care: A Scoping Review. 初级保健的综合性:范围综述。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12723
Agnes Grudniewicz, Ellen Randall, Lori Jones, Aidan Bodner, M Ruth Lavergne
{"title":"Comprehensiveness in Primary Care: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Agnes Grudniewicz, Ellen Randall, Lori Jones, Aidan Bodner, M Ruth Lavergne","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12723","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Policy Points Efforts to address a perceived decline of comprehensiveness in primary care are hampered by the absence of a clear and common understanding of what comprehensiveness means. This scoping review mapped two domains of comprehensiveness (breadth of care and approach to care) as well as a set of factors that enable comprehensive practice. The resulting conceptual map supports greater clarity for future use of the term comprehensiveness, facilitating more precisely targeted research, practice, and policy efforts to improve primary care systems.</p><p><strong>Context: </strong>Associated with system efficiency and patient-perceived quality, comprehensiveness is widely recognized as foundational to high-quality primary care. However, there is concern that comprehensiveness is declining and that primary care physicians are providing a narrower range of services. Efforts to address this perceived decline are hampered by the many different and sometimes vague definitions of comprehensiveness in current use. This scoping review explored how comprehensiveness in primary care is conceptualized and defined in order to map its attributes in support of being able to more clearly and precisely define this key concept in research, practice, and policy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a scoping review, following the methods of Arksey and O'Malley and Levac and colleagues. The search included terms for two key concepts: primary care and comprehensiveness. Developed in Ovid Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), the search was adapted for Cumulated Index in Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and Embase, as well as for gray literature. After a multistep review, included sources underwent detailed data extraction.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>A total of 360 sources were extracted; 57% were empirical studies and 65% were published between 2010 and 2022. Across these sources, we identified nine attributes of comprehensiveness in primary care. We mapped these attributes into two conceptual domains: breadth of care (services, settings, health needs and conditions, patients served, and availability) and approach to care (one-stop shop, whole-person care, referrals and coordination, and longitudinal care). Additionally, we identified three enablers of comprehensiveness, namely structures and resources, teams, and competency.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The conceptual map of comprehensiveness in primary care offers a valuable tool that supports clarity for future use of the term comprehensiveness. The domains and attributes we identified can be used to develop definitions and measures that are appropriate to research, practice, and policy contexts, enabling more precise efforts to improve primary care systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142822893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Population Health Implications of Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Populations. 针对被监禁人群的医疗补助释放和过渡服务对人口健康的影响。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12719
Elizabeth T Chin, Yiran E Liu, C Brandon Ogbunu, Sanjay Basu
{"title":"Population Health Implications of Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Populations.","authors":"Elizabeth T Chin, Yiran E Liu, C Brandon Ogbunu, Sanjay Basu","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12719","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0009.12719","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Policy Points A large population of incarcerated people may be eligible for prerelease and transition services under the new Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration Opportunity. We estimated the largest relative population increases in Medicaid coverage from the opportunity may be expected in smaller and more rural states. We found that mental illness, hepatitis C, and chronic kidney disease prevalence rates were sufficiently high among incarcerated populations to likely skew overall Medicaid population prevalence of these diseases when prerelease and transition services are expanded, implying the need for planning of additional data exchange and service delivery infrastructure by state Medicaid plans.</p><p><strong>Context: </strong>As states expand prerelease and transition services for incarcerated individuals under the Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration Opportunity, we sought to systematically inform Medicaid state and plan administrators regarding the population size and burden of disease data available on incarcerated populations in both jails and prisons in the United States.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed data on eligibility criteria for new Medicaid prerelease and transition services based on incarceration length and health conditions across states. We estimated the potentially eligible populations in prisons and jails, considering various incarceration lengths and health status requirements. We also compared disease prevalence in the incarcerated population with that of the existing civilian Medicaid population.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>We found that rural and smaller states would experience a disproportionately large proportion of their Medicaid populations to be eligible for prerelease and transition services if new Medicaid eligibility rules were broadly applied. Self-reported psychological distress was notably higher among incarcerated individuals compared with those currently on Medicaid. The prevalence rates of previously diagnosed chronic hepatitis C and kidney disease were also much higher in the incarcerated population than the existing civilian Medicaid population.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We estimated large volumes of potentially Medicaid-eligible entrants as coverage policy changes take effect over the coming years, particularly impacting smaller and more rural states. Our findings reveal very high disease prevalence rates among the incarcerated population subject to new Medicaid coverage, including specific chronic, infectious, and behavioral health conditions that state Medicaid programs, health plans, and providers may benefit from advanced planning to address.</p>","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"896-912"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654758/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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When the Bough Breaks: The Financial Burden of Childbirth and Postpartum Care by Insurance Type. 当枝桠折断时:按保险类型划分的分娩和产后护理经济负担。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12721
Heidi Allen, Mandi Spishak-Thomas, Kristen Underhill, Chen Liu, Jamie R Daw
{"title":"When the Bough Breaks: The Financial Burden of Childbirth and Postpartum Care by Insurance Type.","authors":"Heidi Allen, Mandi Spishak-Thomas, Kristen Underhill, Chen Liu, Jamie R Daw","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12721","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0009.12721","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Policy Points This study examines exposure to out-of-pocket (OOP) costs related to childbirth and postpartum care for those with a Medicaid-insured birth compared with those with a commercially insured birth and subsequent financial outcomes at 12 months postpartum. We find that Medicaid is highly protective against health care costs for childbirth and postpartum care relative to commercial insurance, particularly for birthing people with low income. We find persistent medical debt and worry at 12 months postpartum for Medicaid recipients who reported OOP childbirth expenses.</p><p><strong>Context: </strong>Out-of-pocket (OOP) costs related to childbirth and postpartum care may cause financial hardship, depending on type of insurance and income.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We estimated OOP spending on childbirth and postpartum care and financial strain 1 year after birth, comparing Medicaid-insured births with commercially insured births. The Postpartum Assessment of Health Survey followed up with respondents to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System after a 2020 birth in six states and New York City. The survey included questions on health care costs and financial well-being. Our analytic sample consisted of 4,453 postpartum people, 1,544 with a Medicaid-insured birth and 2,909 with a commercially insured birth.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>We observe significant financial hardship from childbirth that persists into the postpartum year, with significant differences by insurance and income. We find Medicaid is highly financially protective relative to commercial insurance; 81.4% of Medicaid-insured births were free to the patient, compared with 15.7% of commercially insured births (p < 0.001). Six of ten commercially insured births (59%) cost over $1,000 OOP. Among respondents reporting OOP costs for childbirth, we found that Medicaid enrollees are more likely to have borrowed money from friends or family to pay for childbirth (8% vs. 1%, p < 0.001) and one in five had not made any payments 1 year postpartum (26% vs. 5% of commercially insured births, p < 0.001). Among the commercially insured, those with incomes under 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL) fared worse financially than those above 200% FPL on a number of indicators, including debt in collection (33% vs. 13%, p < 0.001) and financial worry (55% vs. 34%, p < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The cost of childbirth and postpartum health care results in significant and persistent financial hardship, particularly for families with lower income with commercial insurance. Medicaid offers greater protection for families with low income by offering reduced cost sharing for childbirth and postpartum health care, but even minimal cost sharing in Medicaid causes financial strain.</p>","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"868-895"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142577139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Reforming Physician Licensure in the United States to Improve Access to Telehealth: State, Regional, and Federal Initiatives. 改革美国医生执照制度以改善远程医疗的可及性:州、地区和联邦倡议。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12713
James René Jolin, Barak Richman, Ateev Mehrotra, Carmel Shachar
{"title":"Reforming Physician Licensure in the United States to Improve Access to Telehealth: State, Regional, and Federal Initiatives.","authors":"James René Jolin, Barak Richman, Ateev Mehrotra, Carmel Shachar","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12713","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0009.12713","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Policy Points The reinstitution of pre-COVID-19 pandemic licensure regulations has impeded interstate telehealth. This has disproportionately impacted patients who live near a state border; geographically mobile patients, such as college students; and patients with rare diseases who may need care from a specialist outside their state. Several promising and feasible reforms are available, at both state and federal levels, to facilitate interstate telehealth. For example, states can offer exemptions to licensure requirements for certain types of telehealth such as follow-up care or create licensure registries that impose little reduced paperwork and fees on physicians. On the federal level, congressional interventions that mimic the Department of Veterans Affairs Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (VA MISSION) Act of 2018 can waive provider licensing and geographic restrictions to telehealth within certain federal programs such as Medicare. Any discussion of medical licensure reform, however, must also consider the current political climate, one in which states are taking divergent stances on sensitive topics such as reproductive care, gender-affirming care, and substance use treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"833-852"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654759/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142001135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Implementation of Policies That Earmarked Taxes for Behavioral Health. 对行为健康专项税收政策实施情况的混合方法探索。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12715
Nicole A Stadnick, Carrie Geremia, Amanda I Mauri, Kera Swanson, Megan Wynecoop, Jonathan Purtle
{"title":"A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Implementation of Policies That Earmarked Taxes for Behavioral Health.","authors":"Nicole A Stadnick, Carrie Geremia, Amanda I Mauri, Kera Swanson, Megan Wynecoop, Jonathan Purtle","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12715","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0009.12715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Policy Points Earmarked tax policies for behavioral health are perceived as having positive impacts related to increasing flexible funding, suggesting benefits to expand this financing approach. Implementation challenges related to these earmarked taxes included tax base volatility that impedes long-term service delivery planning and inequities in the distribution of tax revenue. Recommendations for designing or revising earmarked tax policies include developing clear guidelines and support systems to manage the administrative aspects of earmarked tax programs, cocreating reporting and oversight structures with system and service delivery agents, and selecting revenue streams that are relatively stable across years.</p><p><strong>Context: </strong>Over 200 cities and counties in the United States have implemented policies earmarking tax revenue for behavioral health services. This mixed-methods study was conducted with the aim of characterizing perceptions of the impacts of these earmarked tax policies, strengths and weaknesses of tax policy designs, and factors that influence decision making about how tax revenue is allocated for services.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Study data came from surveys completed by 274 officials involved in behavioral health earmarked tax policy implementation and 37 interviews with officials in a sample of jurisdictions with these taxes-California (n = 16), Washington (n = 12), Colorado (n = 6), and Iowa (n = 3). Interviews primarily explored perceptions of the advantages and drawbacks of the earmarked tax, perceptions of tax policy design, and factors influencing decisions about revenue allocation.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>A total of 83% of respondents strongly agreed that it was better to have the tax than not, 73.2% strongly agreed that the tax increased flexibility to address complex behavioral health needs, and 65.1% strongly agreed that the tax increased the number of people served by evidence-based practices. Only 43.3%, however, strongly agreed that it was easy to satisfy tax-reporting requirements. Interviews revealed that the taxes enabled funding for services and implementation supports, such as training in the delivery of evidence-based practices, and supplemented mainstream funding sources (e.g., Medicaid). However, some interviewees also reported challenges related to volatility of funding, inequities in the distribution of tax revenue, and, in some cases, administratively burdensome tax reporting. Decisions about tax revenue allocation were influenced by goals such as reducing behavioral health care inequities, being responsive to community needs, addressing constraints of mainstream funding sources, and, to a lesser degree, supporting services considered to be evidence based.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Earmarked taxes are a promising financing strategy to improve access to, and quality of, behavioral health services by supplementing mainstream state and federal financing.</p>","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"913-943"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654764/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the December 2024 Issue of the Quarterly. 在《季刊》2024年12月刊上。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12724
Alan B Cohen
{"title":"In the December 2024 Issue of the Quarterly.","authors":"Alan B Cohen","doi":"10.1111/1468-0009.12724","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0009.12724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49810,"journal":{"name":"Milbank Quarterly","volume":"102 4","pages":"827-832"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11654756/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Overcoming the Impact of Students for Fair Admission v Harvard to Build a More Representative Health Care Workforce: Perspectives from Ending Unequal Treatment. 克服 "学生争取公平入学诉哈佛 "案的影响,打造更具代表性的医疗保健人才队伍:结束不平等待遇的视角》。
IF 4.8 2区 医学
Milbank Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12718
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Marco Thimm-Kaiser, Adam Benzekri, Ruth S Shim, Francis K Amankwah, Sara Rosenbaum
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