Cornell Health Policy Center

Regional changes in inpatient psychiatric bed capacity and availability of alternative psychiatric services, 2012-2022 AbstractIntroduction. The US faces a growing mismatch between demand for inpatient psychiatric care and available capacity. Little is known about the chara

📌 CHPC leadership Dr. Beth McGinty, Dr. Will Schpero, & Weill Cornell Medical student Michael Liu have a piece out in Health Affairs Scholar: "Regional changes in inpatient psychiatric bed capacity and availability of alternative psychiatric services, 2012-2022"

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🚨📝 New Cornell Health Policy Center memo out now! This brief titled “Trends in U.S. Nursing Home Ownership and Impacts on Quality of Care” synthesizes four studies on nursing home ownership by CHPC faculty members Dr. Mark Unruh, Dr. Robert Tyler Braun, & colleagues.

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📣 Join us TODAY for a Cornell Health Policy Center Speaker Series event: "Physician Decision-Making and the Marketing of Prescription Drugs," featuring Andrew H. Martin.

🗓️ Monday, December 1st | 11:40 AM-12:55 PM EST

🔗 Register for Zoom: buff.ly/MTnYiOJ

Medicaid Cuts and U.S. Children’s Health — Fixing a Broken System | NEJM Children in the United States have faced rising rates of various health problems in recent years. New federal legislation could cause additional harm.

📝 CHPC co-director Dr. Beth McGinty and faculty member Dr. Sallie Permar have a perspective piece out in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, "Medicaid Cuts and U.S. Children’s Health — Fixing a Broken System."

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🎤 Join us for an upcoming Cornell Health Policy Center Speaker Series event: "Physician Decision-Making and the Marketing of Prescription Drugs," featuring Andrew H. Martin, MBA.

🗓️ Monday, December 1st | 11:40 AM-12:55 PM EST

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📌 Dr. Sarah Gutkind, Postdoctoral Associate in Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, and colleagues have a paper out in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine: "Racial and ethnic disparities in prehospital restraint use and sedation."

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📌 Between-program variation explains 38.6–48.3% of variation in take home methadone delivery.

👉 That's a key takeaway from "Developing and validating measures of take-home methadone with administrative data," a new paper by CHPC faculty member Dr. Yuhua Bao.

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🫀 Dr. Jiani Yu has a paper out in JAMA Internal Medicine titled, "Mobile Integrated Health vs a Transitions of Care Coordinator for Patients Discharged After Heart Failure."

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Pilot Grant Analysis Examines Prior Authorization Trends for MOUD in Private Insurance Researchers observed a positive trend towards removing prior authorization requirements for MOUD.

⭐️ Dr. Allison Ju-Chen Hu, Kristen Underhill, & Yuhua Bao have a paper out in Health Affairs titled "State Laws Banning Prior Authorization For Medications For Opioid Use Disorder Increased Substantially, 2015–23."

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👉 See the Health Affairs Forefront summary of the Cornell Health Policy Center's most recent Insight Panel survey on Medicare Advantage for key takeaways and insights: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

🚨 NEW Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel results released!

In this survey, health policy experts were asked to weigh in on Medicare Advantage. For key takeaways and trends, check out the CHPC website: buff.ly/YCsRiN0

📣 It's not too late to join us THIS Thursday for a Weill Cornell Medicine Health Policy & Economics Speaker Series event: "Nudges vs. Navigation: Evidence From a Policy RCT to Promote Medicaid Retention," feat. Dr. Adrianna McIntyre.

🗓️ November 13th | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

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The Purpose and Value of Editorial Content at JAMA Health Forum JAMA Health Forum’s mission1 is to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed research that advances scholarship in health policy and health services. At a time of both increasing public scrutiny of the…

Dr. Pragya Kakani has an editorial out in JAMA Health Forum titled, "The Purpose and Value of Editorial Content at JAMA Health Forum." Her piece describes the importance of including evidence-based opinion in academic journals to promote public trust in science.

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Hurricanes and Long-Term CVD This cohort study examines the association between hurricane exposure and the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease events after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 among Medicare fee-for-service…

Dr. Arnab Ghosh, CHPC associate faculty member and assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has a paper out in JAMA Network titled, "Hurricane Exposure and Risk of Long-Term Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes."

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📣 Join us for a speaker series event, "Nudges vs. Navigation: Evidence From a Policy RCT to Promote Medicaid Retention," hosted by the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell Medicine!

Thursday, November 13th | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM | Zoom Link: lnkd.in/eEHEG-hN

📣 ICYMI: Conrad Bhamani, Manager at the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science and Cornell alum, gave a talk last week: "How the Inflation Reduction Act is Changing the US Pharmaceutical Industry."

🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/2ntcC1b

📌 Dr. Robert "Tyler" Braun has a new paper out in Health Affairs: "Private Equity-Owned Hospices Report Highest Profits, Lowest Patient Care Spending Compared with Other Ownership Models."

Read the full publication here: buff.ly/YzRv1ln

⭐️💉 Congratulations to Dr. Sallie Permar for delivering the prestigious Stanley A. Plotkin Lecture in Vaccinology hosted by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society! Her talk, “Eliminating Lifelong Disabilities Through Vaccination,” highlighted the power of vaccines to protect children's futures.

Join us TOMORROW for our CHPC Speaker Series event, "How the Inflation Reduction Act is Changing the US Pharmaceutical Industry."

In this seminar, expert Conrad Bhamani will discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act reformed how drug prices are set in the Medicare program.

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📣It's not too late to join us TOMORROW for our CHPC Speaker Series event: "Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens," featuring expert panelists Dr. Zoe Lindenfeld and Dr. Amanda Isabel Mauri.

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📣 It’s not too late to join us TOMORROW for a special seminar, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.”

The panel will be moderated by Dhruv Khullar and feature nationally recognized experts: Michael Chernew, Sherry Glied, & Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA.

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Dr. Amanda I. Mauri, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management at the University of Maryland, will be a speaker in our seminar, “Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens."

About Dr. Mauri: buff.ly/dAy7pLO

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Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, will be an expert panelist in our upcoming virtual panel, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.”

About Dr. Jain: buff.ly/LtmPbhq
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️🗓️ Tuesday, October 21 from 4 PM–5 PM ET

🎤 Join us for our upcoming CHPC Speaker Series event: "How the Inflation Reduction Act is Changing the US Pharmaceutical Industry." featuring Conrad Bhamani, Manager at the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science and Cornell alum.

Register Here: weillcornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📌 Dr. Sri Lekha Tummalapalli has a paper out in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, titled "Understanding Hospitalized Patients with ESKD Experiencing Homelessness in the United States."

📖 Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FwPXT9d

Dr. Zoe Lindenfeld, Assistant Professor of Health Administration at Rutgers University, will be a speaker in our upcoming seminar, “Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens"

About Dr. Lindenfeld: buff.ly/ceC9UUv
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Emergency Medicaid at Risk — Preserving State Authority and Access to Care | NEJM States that use federal dollars to provide health care to unauthorized immigrants, beyond narrowly defined emergency services, will now face enforcement actions and potential recoupment of funds.

For decades, the narrowly defined Emergency Medicaid (EM) program has reimbursed hospitals for emergency care provided to uninsured, low-income immigrants.

In @nejm.org, we write in defense of state flexibilities in EM, which seem at risk: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

cc @chpc-cornell.bsky.social

🚨📝 New CHPC memo out now! This brief titled, “State Policy Levers to Improve Medicaid Pediatric Provider Payment” synthesizes a recent study by CHPC/Weill Cornell faculty members Drs. Beth McGinty, Kayla Tormohlen, Sallie Permar, Cori Green, & Ilina Das Ewen.

📖 Read here: buff.ly/fxNfaMG

Dr. Sherry Glied, Professor of Public Service at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, will be an expert panelist in our upcoming virtual panel, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.”

About Dr. Glied: buff.ly/6mWlI06

Register: buff.ly/snmvxDK

🗓️ Tues., 10/21 4–5PM ET

📌 Faculty in the News

Dr. Mark Unruh, associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, was interviewed by a reporter from Morning Brew’s Healthcare Brew on nursing home ownership and its impact on care quality.

👉 Read the full article here: buff.ly/AZVEoJB