JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3865
{"title":"Errors in Table 2 and eTables 1 and 3.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480544","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3188
Coleman Drake, David M Anderson
{"title":"The Unintended Consequences of Individual Market Reinsurance.","authors":"Coleman Drake, David M Anderson","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512791","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3633
{"title":"Error in Text.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3633","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11452808/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142373563","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3001
Amanda I Mauri, Nuannuan Xiang, Danielle R Adams, Jonathan Purtle
{"title":"Proportion of US Counties and Population Served by Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.","authors":"Amanda I Mauri, Nuannuan Xiang, Danielle R Adams, Jonathan Purtle","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3001","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11452811/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142373565","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.4057
Lanhee J Chen
{"title":"What Would a Trump Administration 2.0 Mean for Health Care Policy?","authors":"Lanhee J Chen","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.4057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.4057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142401938","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3509
Russell G Buhr, Ruby Romero, Lauren E Wisk
{"title":"Promotion of Knowledge and Trust Surrounding Scarce Resource Allocation Policies: A Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Russell G Buhr, Ruby Romero, Lauren E Wisk","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3509","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic prompted rapid development of scarce resource allocation policies (SRAPs) in case demand for critical health services eclipsed capacity.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To test whether a brief educational video could improve knowledge of how the University of California Health's SRAP would be implemented and trust in health systems to implement such policies in accordance with ethical principles during the pandemic.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This randomized clinical trial used an educational video intervention embedded in a longitudinal web-based survey and was conducted between May and December 2020 and analyzed during March 2024. A total of 1971 adult participants were enrolled, of whom 939 completed follow-up; participants with matched baseline and follow-up responses were analyzed. California residents were randomized to view the intervention (n = 345) or not (n = 353) and stratified by age, sex, education, racial identity, and self-reported health care worker status. Non-California residents were allocated to the control group (n = 241).</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>A brief (6-minute) \"explainer\" video that provided an overview of mechanics and ethical principles underpinning the University of California Health SRAP, subtitled in 6 languages.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Self-reported survey assessment of knowledge of components of SRAP, graded as correct vs incorrect, and trust graded on a 10-point Likert scale. Anxiety about such policies was graded on a 10-point Likert scale with an a priori noninferiority margin of half of a standard deviation. Participants answered items at baseline and follow-up (approximately 10 weeks after baseline), with randomization occurring between administrations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 770 randomized participants with responses at both points, 566 (73.5%) were female, and the median (IQR) age was 43.5 (36-57) years. Intervention participants demonstrated improvement of 5.6 (95% CI, 4.8-6.4; P < .001) more correct knowledge items of 20 vs controls, as well as significant improvements in reported trust in fairness/consistency and honesty/transparency about SRAP implementation. There was no significant change in reported anxiety surrounding SRAP in either treatment or control groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>The trial found that a brief educational video is sufficient to explain complex ethical tenets and mechanics of SRAP and improved knowledge of such policies and trust in health systems to implement them equitably while not exacerbating anxiety about potential policy implications. This informs practice by providing a framework for educating people about the use of these policies during future situations necessitating crisis standards of care.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04373135.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11489882/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480548","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3172
Olivia A Sacks, Megan Murphy, James O'Malley, Nancy Birkmeyer, Amber E Barnato
{"title":"A Quality Improvement Initiative for Inpatient Advance Care Planning.","authors":"Olivia A Sacks, Megan Murphy, James O'Malley, Nancy Birkmeyer, Amber E Barnato","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3172","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented advance care planning (ACP) billing codes in 2016 to encourage practitioners to conduct and document ACP conversations, and included ACP as a quality metric in the CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative in 2018. Use of this billing code in the inpatient setting has not been studied.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine whether a quality improvement intervention to increase inpatient ACP is effective in increasing ACP billing rates or changing hospital treatment plans or patient outcomes.</p><p><strong>Design, settings, and participants: </strong>This nationwide cohort study and difference-in-differences analyses compared changes in ACP billing, treatment, and outcomes in Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 years and older who were hospitalized and cared for by 3 different groups: practitioners employed by a national acute care staffing organization who underwent an ACP quality improvement intervention, nonintervention practitioners at the same hospital, and control group practitioners from other hospitals. Using data from the Master Beneficiary Summary File, acute care hospital stays for nonsurgical conditions were linked to Medicare enrollment, claims, and vital status data from 1-year preadmission to 1-year postadmission from 2015 to 2019. The ACP billing rates for each group were assessed for associations with 6 inpatient treatments and 4 outcomes. Data analyses were performed from January 2022 to December 2024.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Billed ACP conversations, receipt of intensive care and life support (intensive care unit admission, gastrostomy tube placement, mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy), treatment limitations (newly initiated do-not-resuscitate orders) and outcomes (discharge to hospice, inpatient death, 30-day postadmission death, and 1-year postadmission death).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The total study sample included 109 intervention hospitals, 1691 control hospitals, nearly 12 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 years and older, and 738 309 practitioners associated with admissions from 2016 to 2018. ACP billing rates increased more for the intervention (1.3% in preintervention to 14.0% in postintervention; P < .001) than for the nonintervention (same hospitals) and control groups (odds ratio [OR], 2.6; 95% CI, 1.7-4.1 intervention vs control). Increased ACP billing rates were significantly associated with decreased rates of inpatient death in the intervention group (OR, 0.95; 95% CI, 0.90-1.00) compared to the nonintervention (OR, 1.10; 95% CI, 1.04-1.17) and control groups (reference). All other associations were nonsignificant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This nationwide cohort study suggests that while the ACP quality initiative increased ACP billing, changes in clinical outcomes were inconsistent with the hypotheses. Furt","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11452818/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142373561","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3669
Kendria Kelly-Taylor, Sylvia E Badon, Wendy T Dyer, Alex Asera, Huyun Dong, Tess Baker, Nerissa Nance, Kiarri N Kershaw, Charles P Quesenberry, Kelly C Young-Wolff, Mibhali Bhalala, Kathryn Erickson-Ridout, Lyndsay A Avalos
{"title":"Racial Residential Segregation and Mental Health During Pregnancy.","authors":"Kendria Kelly-Taylor, Sylvia E Badon, Wendy T Dyer, Alex Asera, Huyun Dong, Tess Baker, Nerissa Nance, Kiarri N Kershaw, Charles P Quesenberry, Kelly C Young-Wolff, Mibhali Bhalala, Kathryn Erickson-Ridout, Lyndsay A Avalos","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3669","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3669","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Research suggests the social, physical, and socioeconomic contexts of residing in segregated neighborhoods may negatively affect mental health.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the association between racial residential segregation and prenatal mental health among Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White individuals.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), an integrated health care delivery system. Participants included self-identified Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White pregnant individuals who attended at least 1 prenatal care visit at KPNC between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2019. Data were analyzed from January 14, 2023, to August 15, 2024.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>Racial residential segregation, defined by the local Getis-Ord Gi* statistic, was calculated in each racial and ethnic group and categorized as low (<0), medium (0-1.96), or high (>1.96). A positive Gi* statistic indicates overrepresentation (greater clustering or segregation) of the racial and ethnic group in an index census tract and neighboring tracts compared with the larger surrounding geographic area.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Prenatal depression and anxiety defined by diagnoses codes documented in the electronic health record between the first day of the last menstrual period and the day prior to birth.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 201 115 participants included in the analysis (mean [SD] age, 30.8 [5.3] years; 26.8% Asian, 6.6% Black, 28.0% Hispanic, and 38.6% White), prenatal depression and anxiety were highest in Black individuals (18.3% and 18.4%, respectively), followed by White (16.0% and 18.2%, respectively), Hispanic (13.0% and 14.4%, respectively), and Asian (5.7% and 6.4%, respectively) individuals. Asian (40.8% vs 31.1%) and Black (43.3% vs 22.6%) individuals were more likely to live in neighborhoods with high vs low segregation, while Hispanic individuals were equally likely (34.3% vs 34.7%). High compared with low segregation was associated with greater odds of prenatal depression (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.25 [95% CI, 1.10-1.42]) and anxiety (AOR, 1.14 [95% CI, 1.00-1.29]) among Black individuals. High segregation was associated with lower odds of prenatal depression among Asian (AOR, 0.75 [95% CI, 0.69-0.82]), Hispanic (AOR, 0.88 [95% CI, 0.82-0.94]), and White (AOR, 0.91 [95% CI, 0.86-0.96]) individuals. Similar associations were found for anxiety among Asian (AOR, 0.80 [95% CI, 0.73-0.87]) and Hispanic (AOR, 0.88 [95% CI, 0.82-0.93]) but not White (AOR, 0.95 [95% CI, 0.90-1.00]) individuals.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this cross-sectional study, racial and ethnic residential segregation was associated with worse prenatal mental health for Black individuals but better mental health for Asian, Hispanic, and White individuals","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512790","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.4041
Rosa M Gonzalez-Guarda, Jay Pearson
{"title":"Erosion of the Latino Health Advantage in the US.","authors":"Rosa M Gonzalez-Guarda, Jay Pearson","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.4041","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.4041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367420","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3546
Kenton J Johnston, Michelle Hendricks, Megha Dabas, Eliza Macneal, Jeah Jung, David J Meyers, Jose F Figueroa, Eric T Roberts
{"title":"Nationwide Availability of and Enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans With Exclusively Aligned Enrollment.","authors":"Kenton J Johnston, Michelle Hendricks, Megha Dabas, Eliza Macneal, Jeah Jung, David J Meyers, Jose F Figueroa, Eric T Roberts","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3546","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3546","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>In 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services designated a new category of dual-eligible special needs plans (D-SNPs) with exclusively aligned enrollment (receive Medicare and Medicaid benefits through the same plan or affiliated plans within the same organization).</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the availability of and enrollment in D-SNPs with exclusively aligned enrollment and to compare the characteristics of beneficiaries enrolled in D-SNPs with exclusively aligned enrollment available vs beneficiaries without such enrollment available.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>Full-benefit beneficiaries enrolled in D-SNPs for 6 months or longer in 2021 or 2022. Availability of and beneficiary enrollment in D-SNPs were assessed by year and county for D-SNPs with exclusively aligned enrollment available vs D-SNPs without exclusively aligned enrollment available. The D-SNP enrollees residing in counties with aligned plans available were compared based on demographic, social, health, and area characteristics vs D-SNP enrollees in counties without such plans available. Comparisons were also made based on beneficiaries who enrolled in the aligned D-SNPs vs those who did not enroll (were enrolled in unaligned D-SNPs). The data analyses were conducted from October 1, 2023, to August 2, 2024.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Availability of aligned D-SNPs and beneficiary residence by county; enrollment in exclusively aligned D-SNPs vs unaligned D-SNPs; and beneficiary demographic, social, health, and area characteristics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 2 197 732 beneficiaries enrolled in D-SNPs in 2021, 881 736 (40.1%) were living in counties with aligned enrollment available and 251 305 (11.4%) enrolled. Of 2 689 045 beneficiaries enrolled in D-SNPs in 2022, 1 047 223 (38.9%) were living in counties with aligned enrollment available and 318 906 (11.9%) enrolled. Beneficiaries enrolled in D-SNPs residing in counties without aligned enrollment available were more likely to live in rural or micropolitan areas (21.9%) vs beneficiaries in counties with aligned enrollment available (8.1%) (standardized mean difference [SMD], 0.38 [95% CI, 0.38-0.38]), be entitled to disability (44.4% vs 27.3%, respectively; SMD, 0.36 [95% CI, 0.36-0.36]), or be Black individuals (27.4% vs 21.4%; SMD, 0.14 [95% CI, 0.14-0.14]); were less likely to be Hispanic individuals (15.4% vs 33.7%; SMD, 0.45 [95% CI, 0.45-0.45]) or Asian or Pacific Islander individuals (6.1% vs 12.2%; SMD, 0.22 [95% CI, 0.22-0.22]); and lived in zip codes with a higher area deprivation index (mean, 66.8 [SD, 26.4] vs mean, 43.2 [SD, 29.0]; SMD, 0.86 [95% CI, 0.86-0.86]). Beneficiaries enrolled in aligned D-SNPs were more likely to be receiving long-term institutionalized care vs beneficiaries in nonaligned D-SNPs (4.3% vs 1.0%, respectively; SMD, 0.24 [95% CI, 0.24-0.25]) or have dementia or Alzheimer disease ","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480546","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}