JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3106
{"title":"Omitted Conflict of Interest Disclosures.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3106","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e243106"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316227/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141910175","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2547
Karen E Schifferdecker, Ching-Wen W Yang, Matthew B Mackwood, Hector P Rodriguez, Stephen M Shortell, Ellesse-Roselee Akré, A James O'Malley, Caryn Butler, Alena D Berube, Alice O Andrews, Elliott S Fisher
{"title":"Safety Net Primary Care Capabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Karen E Schifferdecker, Ching-Wen W Yang, Matthew B Mackwood, Hector P Rodriguez, Stephen M Shortell, Ellesse-Roselee Akré, A James O'Malley, Caryn Butler, Alena D Berube, Alice O Andrews, Elliott S Fisher","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2547","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2547","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide care to 30 million patients in the US and have shown better outcomes and processes than other practice types. Little is known about how the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to FQHC capabilities compared with other practices.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare postpandemic operational characteristics and capabilities of FQHCs with non-FQHC safety net practices and non-FQHC, non-safety net practices.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This nationally representative survey conducted from June 2022 to February 2023 with an oversampling of safety net practices in the US included practice leaders working in stratified random selection of practices based on FQHC status, Area Deprivation Index category, and ownership type per a health care network dataset.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>Practice type: FQHC vs non-FQHC safety net and non-FQHC practices.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Primary care capabilities, including 2 measures of access and 11 composite measures.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1245 practices (221 FQHC and 1024 non-FQHC) responded of 3498 practices sampled. FQHCs were more likely to be independently owned and have received COVID-19 funding. FQHCs and non-FQHC safety net practices were more likely to be in rural areas. FQHCs significantly outperformed non-FQHCs on several capabilities even after controlling for practice size and ownership, including behavioral health provision (mean score, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.51-0.56), culturally informed services (mean score, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.53-0.58), screening for social needs (mean score, 0.43; 95% CI, 0.39-0.47), social needs referrals (mean score, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.48-0.57), social needs referral follow-up (mean score, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.27-0.36), and shared decision-making and motivational interviewing training (mean score, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.51-0.56). No differences were found in behavioral and substance use screening, care processes for patients with complex and high levels of need, use of patient-reported outcome measures, decision aid use, or after-hours access. Across all practices, most of the examined capabilities showed room for improvement.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>The results of this survey study suggest that FQHCs outperformed non-FQHC practices on important care processes while serving a patient population with lower incomes who are medically underserved compared with patients in other practice types. Legislation to expand funding for the FQHC program should improve services for underserved populations and target current non-FQHC safety net practices to serve these populations. Increased support for these practices could improve primary care for rural populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e242547"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11329874/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141989518","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2640
James René Jolin, Benjamin A Barsky, Carrie G Wade, Meredith B Rosenthal
{"title":"Access to Care and Outcomes With the Affordable Care Act for Persons With Criminal Legal Involvement: A Scoping Review.","authors":"James René Jolin, Benjamin A Barsky, Carrie G Wade, Meredith B Rosenthal","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2640","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2640","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>By expanding health insurance to millions of people in the US, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have important health, economic, and social welfare implications for people with criminal legal involvement-a population with disproportionately high morbidity and mortality rates.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To scope the literature for studies assessing the association of any provision of the ACA with 5 types of outcomes, including insurance coverage rates, access to care, health outcomes, costs of care, and social welfare outcomes among people with criminal legal involvement.</p><p><strong>Evidence review: </strong>The literature search included results from PubMed, CINAHL Complete, APA Psycinfo, Embase, Social Science Database, and Web of Science and was conducted to include articles from January 1, 2014, through December 31, 2023. Only original empirical studies were included, but there were no restrictions on study design.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Of the 3538 studies initially identified for potential inclusion, the final sample included 19 studies. These 19 studies differed substantially in their definition of criminal legal involvement and units of analysis. The studies also varied with respect to study design, but difference-in-differences methods were used in 10 of the included studies. With respect to outcomes, 100 unique outcomes were identified across the 19 studies, with at least 1 in all 5 outcome categories determined prior to the literature search. Health insurance coverage and access to care were the most frequently studied outcomes. Results for the other 3 outcome categories were mixed, potentially due to heterogeneous definitions of populations, interventions, and outcomes and to limitations in the availability of individual-level datasets that link incarceration data with health-related data.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this scoping review, the ACA was associated with an increase in insurance coverage and a decrease in recidivism rates among people with criminal legal involvement. Future research and data collection are needed to understand more fully health and nonhealth outcomes among people with criminal legal involvement related to the ACA and other health insurance policies-as well as the mechanisms underlying these relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e242640"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11344231/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142037722","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2647
Krishna P Reddy, A David Paltiel, Kenneth A Freedberg, Nancy A Rigotti
{"title":"Public Health Impact of FDA's Request for Additional Safety Data on Cytisine for Tobacco Cessation.","authors":"Krishna P Reddy, A David Paltiel, Kenneth A Freedberg, Nancy A Rigotti","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2647","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>No new tobacco cessation medication has been licensed in the US since 2006. Cytisine, a plant-based partial agonist of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, has demonstrated safety and efficacy in several randomized clinical trials and is currently available in many countries. However, the drug is not commercially available in the US. A New Drug Application to license cytisine as a smoking cessation medication in the US is being prepared for review by the US Food and Drug Administration, whose request for additional safety data will delay submission of the application by approximately 1 year.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To project the potential public health impact of cytisine, and delays in its availability, as a smoking cessation aid in the US.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This mathematical model estimated life expectancy gains from smoking cessation for people aged 18 to 99 years in the US, reflecting the civilian, noninstitutionalized population. The model also accounted for cytisine uptake and effectiveness, as well as potential relapse among people who stop smoking.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Cytisine availability as a tobacco cessation treatment immediately or after 1 year.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The main outcomes were the number of adults able to stop smoking and sustain long-term abstinence and aggregate life-years gained.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The base case includes an estimated 29.4 million US civilian noninstitutionalized adults who smoke cigarettes (age distribution, 18-24 years: 5.5%; 25-44 years: 37.3%; 45-64 years: 41.8%; ≥65 years: 15.5%). With a conservative assumption that 3.8% of these individuals would use cytisine in the first year of availability, immediate cytisine availability could lead 71 000 more people to quit smoking over 1 year and maintain long-term abstinence. This would produce more than 500 000 additional life-years compared to the status quo in which cytisine is unavailable and fewer people stop smoking. Each additional year of delay in the availability of cytisine might reduce population-level life expectancy by 10 000 years. The model results were most sensitive to changes in cytisine uptake and effectiveness.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Smoking cessation generates large gains in life expectancy. This mathematical model demonstrated that immediate cytisine availability, even if used successfully by only a small fraction of people who smoke, could produce major public health benefits. Given the need for new tobacco cessation pharmacotherapy options, the magnitude of cytisine's potential public health benefits, and the morbidity and mortality associated with delay in its availability, a timely review of cytisine for approval in the US is warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e242647"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11344233/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142037726","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2744
Erin L Duffy, Melissa A Frasco, Erin Trish
{"title":"Disparate Patient Advocacy When Facing Unaffordable and Problematic Medical Bills.","authors":"Erin L Duffy, Melissa A Frasco, Erin Trish","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2744","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>People in the US face high out-of-pocket medical expenses, yielding financial strain and debt.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To understand how households respond to medical bills they disagree with or cannot afford.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>A retrospective cohort study was carried out using a survey fielded between August 14 and October 14, 2023. The study included a random sample of adult (aged ≥18 years) survey respondents from the Understanding America Study (UAS). Participant responses were weighted to be nationally representative. The analysis took place from November 3, 2023, through January 8, 2024.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Respondents reported if their household received a medical bill that they could not afford or did not agree with in the prior 12 months, and if anyone contacted the billing office regarding their concerns. Those who did reach out were asked about their experience and those who did not were asked why.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The survey was sent to 1233 UAS panelists, of which 1135 completed the survey, a 92.1% cooperation rate. Overall, 1 in 5 of the 1135 respondents received a medical bill that they disagreed with or could not afford. Leading bill sources were physician offices (66 [34.6%]), emergency room or urgent care (22 [19.9%]), and hospitals (31 [15.3%]), and 136 respondents (61.5%) contacted the billing office to address their concern. A more extroverted and less agreeable personality increased likelihood of reaching out. Respondents without a college degree, lower financial literacy, and the uninsured were less likely to contact a billing office. Among those who did not reach out, 55 (86.1%) reported that they did not think it would make a difference. Of those who reached out, 37 (25.7%) achieved bill corrections, better understanding (16 [18.2%]), payment plans (18 [15.5%]), price drop (17 [15.2%]), financial assistance (10 [8.1%]), and/or bill cancellation (6 [7.3%]), while 32 (21.8%) said that the issue was unresolved and 23.8% reported no change. These outcomes aligned well with respondents' billing concerns with financial relief for 75.8% of respondents reaching out about an unaffordable bill, bill corrections for 73.7% of those who thought there was mistake, and a price drop for 61.8% of those who negotiated.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of patients in the US found that most respondents who self-advocated achieved bill corrections and payment relief. Differences in self-advocacy may be exacerbating socioeconomic inequalities in medical debt burden, as those with less education, lower financial literacy, and the uninsured were less likely to self-advocate. Policies that streamline the administrative burden or shift it from patients to the billing clinician may counter these disparities.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e242744"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11364993/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142114710","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.1801
Benjamin A Barsky, Michael Ashley Stein, Lisa I Iezzoni
{"title":"Reducing Disparities Through Online Accessibility Information.","authors":"Benjamin A Barsky, Michael Ashley Stein, Lisa I Iezzoni","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.1801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.1801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e241801"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141876737","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2371
Alison N Huffstetler, Gabriela Villalobos, Ben Webel, Michelle S Rockwell, Adam Funk, Roy T Sabo, John W Epling, E Marshall Brooks, Jacqueline B Britz, Beth A Bortz, Dace S Svikis, Albert J Arias, Ryan Nguyen Tran, Alex H Krist
{"title":"Practice Facilitation to Address Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Alison N Huffstetler, Gabriela Villalobos, Ben Webel, Michelle S Rockwell, Adam Funk, Roy T Sabo, John W Epling, E Marshall Brooks, Jacqueline B Britz, Beth A Bortz, Dace S Svikis, Albert J Arias, Ryan Nguyen Tran, Alex H Krist","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2371","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Unhealthy alcohol use (UAU) is the fourth most preventable cause of death in the US. The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that primary care clinicians routinely screen all adults 18 years and older for UAU; however, this preventive service is poorly implemented.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine if practice facilitation improved delivery of the recommended care for UAU compared to usual care.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This practice-level cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted across diverse and representative primary care practices throughout Virginia. A total of 76 primary care practices enrolled between October 2019 and January 2023.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>Practices received immediate (intervention) or 6-month delayed (control) practice facilitation, which included tailored educational sessions, workflow management, and tools for addressing UAU.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Outcomes included the increase in recommended screening for UAU, brief interventions, referral for counseling, and medication treatment. Data were collected via medical record review (structured and free text data) and transcripts of practice facilitator sessions and exits interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 76 primary care practices enrolled, 32 were randomized to intervention and 35 to control; 11 789 patients (mean [SD] age, 50.1 [16.3] years; 61.1% women) were randomly selected for analysis, with patient demographics similar to Virginia at large. From baseline to 6 months after intervention, screening with a validated instrument increased from 2.1% (95% CI, 0.5%-8.4%) to 35.5% (95% CI, 11.5%-69.9%) in the intervention group compared to 0.4% (95% CI, 0.1%-1.8%) to 1.4% (95% CI, 0.3%-5.8%) in the control group (P < .001). Brief office-based interventions for the intervention group increased from 26.2% (95% CI, 14.2%-45.8%) to 62.6% (95% CI, 43.6%-78.3%) vs 45.5% (95% CI, 28.0%-64.1%) to 55.1% (95% CI, 36.5%-72.3%) in the control group (P = .008). Identification of UAU, referral for counseling, and medication treatment had similar changes for both groups. Qualitative analyses of transcripts revealed that few clinicians understood the preventive service prior to practice facilitation, but at the end most felt much more competent and confident with screening and brief intervention for UAU.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This cluster randomized clinical trial demonstrated that practice facilitation can help primary care practices to better implement screening and counseling for UAU into their routine workflow. Effective primary care practice implementation interventions such as this can have a profound effect on the health of communities. Given the number of people that the participating practices care for, this intervention resulted in an additional 114 604 patients being screened annually for UAU who would not","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e242371"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316228/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908307","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3025
Sandro Galea
{"title":"What Can Be Learned From Nonadherent Patients to Promote the Health of Populations?","authors":"Sandro Galea","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e243025"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141861638","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2614
Roslyn C Murray, Edward C Norton, Andrew M Ryan
{"title":"Oregon's Hospital Payment Cap and Enrollee Out-of-Pocket Spending and Service Use.","authors":"Roslyn C Murray, Edward C Norton, Andrew M Ryan","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2614","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2614","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Enrollee cost-sharing and health insurance premiums have grown alongside rising hospital prices. To control prices and price growth, the Oregon State Employee plan instituted a cap on hospital facility payments in October 2019 that was found to reduce hospital prices. Yet the program's association with out-of-pocket spending and use among enrollees is unknown.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the association of the Oregon State Employee Plan's hospital payment cap with out-of-pocket spending and changes in service use among state employees enrolled in higher cost-sharing plans.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>Using data from the Oregon All Payer All Claims database (January 2014 to December 2021), a difference-in-differences analysis was conducted to examine the association of Oregon's hospital payment cap with enrollee out-of-pocket spending and service use. The main analysis focused on the outpatient setting, where there were significant declines in hospital prices. Changes in a subpopulation of employees enrolled in higher cost-sharing plans were also examined.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was outpatient out-of-pocket spending per procedure, which included the copayment, coinsurance, and/or deductible paid at the point of service. Changes in service use were also examined by counting the number of outpatient procedures received per enrollee per year.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The outpatient sample included 1 094 083 procedures from 92 523 Oregon educators and 4 510 342 procedures from 473 621 control enrollees. During the period before implementation, Oregon educators had higher out-of-pocket spending per outpatient procedure than the control group ($69.26 vs $41.87). The hospital payment cap was associated with a $6.60, or 9.5%, reduction in out-of-pocket spending per procedure (95% CI, -12.7 to -0.5) and a 0.24, or 4.8%, increase in the number of outpatient procedures received per enrollee per year (95% CI, 0.09-0.39) among those in higher cost-sharing plans. Enrollees receiving outpatient services from October 2019 through December 2021 saved an estimated $1.8 million. However, savings for the state were $10.3 million less than they would have been absent increases in service use.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>The study findings suggest that enrollees may benefit from reduced out-of-pocket spending due to hospital price regulations, but states should be mindful that price regulations may inadvertently increase health care service use.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e242614"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11344237/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142037725","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2953
Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker
{"title":"Better Data to Improve Medicaid.","authors":"Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 8","pages":"e242953"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903597","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}