JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.6025
{"title":"JAMA Health Forum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.6025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.6025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e256025"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148377989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1553
Randall J Nett, Andrea M McCollum, Casey Parker-Crockett
{"title":"Ultralow-Volume Treatments for Mosquito-Borne Diseases.","authors":"Randall J Nett, Andrea M McCollum, Casey Parker-Crockett","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1553","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e261553"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13387354/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148377954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.0154
Sandro Galea, Angela Clark
{"title":"Policy Approaches to Ensuring an Adequate Nursing Workforce in Coming Decades.","authors":"Sandro Galea, Angela Clark","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.0154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e260154"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148474089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2215
Y Tony Yang
{"title":"School Vaccination Requirements as Preventive Care Infrastructure.","authors":"Y Tony Yang","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e262215"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148632813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2105
Zachary Griffen, Kellie Owens, Lauren Taylor
{"title":"The AI Regulatory 2-Step and Implications for Responsibilities of Health Systems.","authors":"Zachary Griffen, Kellie Owens, Lauren Taylor","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e262105"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148581242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.3216
Larry Levitt
{"title":"Why Do We Hear More About High Drug Prices Than About Hospital Prices?","authors":"Larry Levitt","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.3216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.3216","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e263216"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148474235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1865
Asa Hartman, Jingwei Sun, Michael E Chernew, J Michael McWilliams
{"title":"Insurer Retention of Stand-Alone Part D Plan Enrollees Switching to Medicare Advantage.","authors":"Asa Hartman, Jingwei Sun, Michael E Chernew, J Michael McWilliams","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1865","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.1865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e261865"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13329705/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148377981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2492
Joohyun Chung, Michael Lepore, Tingzhong Xue, Rachel Broudy, Hyeyoung Park, Raeanne LeBlanc, David L Chin
{"title":"Trends and Factors in Nursing Home Closures.","authors":"Joohyun Chung, Michael Lepore, Tingzhong Xue, Rachel Broudy, Hyeyoung Park, Raeanne LeBlanc, David L Chin","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2492","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2492","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>US nursing home closures, whether planned or unexpected, can disrupt continuity of care, place additional burdens on remaining facilities, and disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. It is important to understand the trends and factors associated with these closures, as such knowledge can inform policy decisions, guide resource allocation, and help develop strategies to mitigate negative effects on both residents and the broader health care system.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine nursing home operational dynamics in the US and to identify how facilities transition through openings, closures, and changes of ownership (CHOW).</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>A longitudinal cohort study used 40 years of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Provider of Services File, covering the period from 1985 through June 2025. Facility trajectories were examined using physical location identifiers rather than facility names or provider identifiers.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Facility lifecycle status (active, closed, or reopened), CHOW events, net changes in certified bed capacity, facility size, availability of specialized beds for patients with dementia, Medicare and Medicaid participation, and staffing intensity were assessed. Descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression were used to analyze trends and differences between closed and active facilities.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 39 449 records were analyzed, representing 33 110 unique physical locations and 80 257 event records. Nearly half of all entities followed an entry-exit trajectory without any CHOW, accounting for 46.29% (n = 15 328). A substantial proportion of entities remained active while experiencing at least 1 CHOW (20.48% [n = 6780]). CHOW events accounted for 13 053 occurrences (16.26%) of lifecycle activity, and capacity changes were increasingly concentrated in recent years in select states. Overall, organizational restructuring and within-facility capacity adjustment became more prominent over time than entry or exit.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This study found that nursing home markets were characterized by continuous organizational change, with ownership transitions and capacity reconfiguration increasingly substituting for entry and exit. Examining the location-based life cycle of the facility shows that closure often reflects restructuring within evolving ownership structures rather than a single terminal event. These findings suggest that nursing home policy and oversight should attend to ownership transitions and capacity reconfiguration, alongside measures of facility entry and exit.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e262492"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13428279/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148632848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.3235
Sara N Bleich, Arden Handler, Holly Shulman
{"title":"Losing Our Lens on Maternal and Infant Health-The Consequences of Disrupting PRAMS.","authors":"Sara N Bleich, Arden Handler, Holly Shulman","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.3235","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.3235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e263235"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148563584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2026-07-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2059
Benjamin A Barsky, Mark J Soto, Benjamin A Howell, Meredith B Rosenthal
{"title":"Medicaid Expansion and Mortality Among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals.","authors":"Benjamin A Barsky, Mark J Soto, Benjamin A Howell, Meredith B Rosenthal","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2059","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.2059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Most incarcerated individuals eventually return to their communities, where they face high mortality risks that vary by race and ethnicity. The Affordable Care Act allowed states to expand Medicaid to cover all adults aged 18 to 64 years earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level, and expansion has improved health outcomes among the adult population, including mortality; yet research on the formerly incarcerated population remains underdeveloped.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the association between Medicaid expansion and all-cause mortality among formerly incarcerated individuals, including in analyses stratified by race and ethnicity.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>Cross-sectional study using stacked difference-in-differences (DID) analysis of individual-level prison release data of formerly incarcerated people in 17 states from January 2010 through December 2020 from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System linked to the Numerical Identification (Numident) file to create a person-month-level dataset. Dates of data analysis were from August 2024 to December 2025.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Formerly incarcerated individuals released in a Medicaid expansion state.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>All-cause mortality, determined by month of death in Numident. The study used a discrete-time proportional hazards model fit with logistic regression to implement the DID approach. Odds ratios (ORs) quantifying differences in monthly postrelease mortality risk are reported. The study population was stratified based on race and ethnicity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study population included 2 210 000 formerly incarcerated people in 17 states: American Indian and Alaska Native (14 500 [0.7%]), Asian (16 500 [0.7%]), Black (655 000 [29.6%]), Hispanic (307 000 [13.9%]), and White (1 220 000 [55.1%]); most were men (79.9%), and the plurality were aged 18 to 34 years (45.0%). Expansion was associated with a 14% lower monthly odds of death in the study population (OR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.74-0.99; P = .04). In stratified analyses, expansion was associated with a 21% lower odds of monthly mortality among Black individuals (OR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.68-0.91; P = .002) and a 15% lower odds of monthly mortality among White individuals (OR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.73-0.99; P = .03); expansion was not associated with mortality among Hispanic individuals (OR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.71-1.44; P = .95).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This study found that Medicaid expansion was associated with reduced monthly all-cause mortality after prison release, particularly among Black and White individuals. These findings underscore the importance of extending Medicaid coverage to the reentry population.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"7 7","pages":"e262059"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13329703/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148377999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}