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Estimated Cost of Developing a Therapeutic Complex Medical Device in the US
This document presents the abstract of this paper, as published in JAMA Network Open. The full text of the article is available at: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2796179
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Trends in Prescription Drug Spending, 2016-2021
High prescription drug costs are a leading concern among Americans. Americans pay higher prices for prescription drugs than any other country in the world, with prescription drug prices in the U.S. more than 2.5 times as high as those in other similar high-income nations. To support the Administration's efforts to make drug prices and spending more transparent, the goal of this brief is to…
Price Increases for Prescription Drugs, 2016-2022
Prescription drug price increases create affordability challenges for patients and for the government. This report tracks drug price changes from 2016-2022. There were 1,216 products whose price increases during the twelve-month period from July 2021 to July 2022 exceeded the inflation rate of 8.5 percent for that time period. The average price increase for these drugs was 31.6 percent. Some…
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Resident and Facility Factors Associated with High Risk of Discharge from Nursing Facilities, 2012-2017: Issue Brief
This project tracked resident and facility factors associated with high risk of live discharges from nursing facilities.
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Resident and Facility Factors Associated with High Risk of Discharge from Nursing Facilities, 2012-2017: Final Report
This project tracked resident and facility factors associated with high risk of live discharges from nursing facilities.
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High Risk of Discharge from Nursing Facilities
People can be discharged from nursing homes for many reasons. Discharges may be a positive outcome and at an individual’s choice. In other cases, discharges may be at the direction of the facility and against the will of the resident. There are strict rules about when involuntary facility-initiated discharges (FIDs) are allowed. FIDs may be unsafe and traumatic for the residents involved and may…
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Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Americans: Risks and Financing, 2022
This Brief presents information about the risk of needing care and associated costs to provide content for policymakers and others considering long-term care financing proposals. It revises a brief that was written in October 2020.
ASPE Data Point
Many Children in HHS Safety Net Programs Are Eligible for Nutrition Assistance But Are Not Enrolled
Nutrition assistance programs have been shown to increase children’s health and well-being and decrease the risk of child maltreatment. At the same time, food insecurity rose in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report analyzes the number of children served by HHS safety net programs who were eligible but not enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,…
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Landscape of Area-Level Deprivation Measures and Other Approaches to Account for Social Risk and Social Determinants of Health in Health Care Payments
Improving health equity in the United States is a priority for the Biden-Harris Administration in order to address longstanding disparities in health outcomes. Health inequities can be conceptualized and measured as drivers of differences in health outcomes. These drivers begin upstream with structural discrimination which results in differences in social determinants of health (SDOH), health-…
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HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration
This brief introduces the HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration, which advances the President’s Strategy to Address our National Mental Health Crisis. It provides a general overview of the approach HHS is taking to drive toward integrated care within the three pillars of the President’s Strategy and highlights selected programs and policy actions that will get us there.
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Factsheet: Estimates of Child Care Eligibility & Receipt for Fiscal Year 2019
This factsheet provides descriptive information on child care eligibility and receipt. Of the 12.5 million children potentially eligible for child care subsidies under federal rules, 16 percent received subsidies. Of the 8.7 million children eligible for child care subsidies under more restrictive state rules, 23 percent received subsidies. Only those eligible under both federal and state rules…
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Flexibilities in Controlled Substances Prescribing and Dispensing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic had wide-ranging impacts on health care delivery, particularly services that require in-person interactions. For patients needing access to medications to treat pain or certain substance use disorders, the COVID-19 pandemic presented particular challenges for continuity of treatment.
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State Use of Value-Based Payment in Nursing Facilities Issue Brief
Payers across the health care spectrum have begun transitioning from paying for quantity toward paying for quality. These value-based payment (VBP) programs vary in scope and focus, but generally share the goals of improving cost-savings and linking payments to value rather than volume.
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Developing and Assessing the Validity of Claims-based Indicators of Frailty and Functional Disabilities in Electronic Health Records
This project focused on validating an established claims-based frailty indexes (CFI) using linked claims-EHR databases of multiple large health systems. Additionally, the project assessed and compared the EHR and claims data of these data sources to ensure sufficient data quality for frailty analysis. Lastly, this project compared the EHR based frailty indexes (EFI) and CFI using EHR and claims…
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Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Provision: Projected Enrollment Effects and Policy Approaches
This report provides current HHS projections of the number of individuals predicted to lose Medicaid coverage at the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) due to a change in eligibility or due to administrative churning.
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Environmental Scan on Consolidation Trends and Impacts in Health Care Markets
This contractor report describes the landscape of market consolidation across the U.S. health care system and analyzes the evidence on the price, cost, and quality effects of consolidation. An introduction written by ASPE reviews some of the key findings from the RAND analysis, and includes data analysis and national maps showing changes in health care market concentration over the past decade.…
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Opioid Use in Long-Term Care Settings: Final Report
Opioid use was very common among the long-term care (LTC) residents in our sample. Perhaps reflecting their post-acute rehabilitative needs, discharged residents were more likely to have opioid use prior to LTC admission and at the beginning of the LTC stay. Opioid use diminished over the course of the LTC stay for this group, but a sizeable minority of these individuals still had opioid use once…
ASPE Data Point
National Uninsured Rate Reaches All-Time Low in Early 2022
This Data Point examines new Health Interview Survey data to assess recent changes in coverage, finding that the uninsured rate declined throughout 2021 and early 2022 – reaching a historic low of 8.0% by the first quarter of 2022. This reflects 5.2 million people gaining coverage since 2020. The report also examines data from the American Community Survey to assess coverage changes among low-…
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Opportunities to Improve Data Interoperability and Integration to Support Value-Based Care
In value-based models of health care delivery, providers are financially rewarded or penalized on the basis of the quality of care they provide to patients, typically measured by patient outcomes. The specifics of value-based care models can take several forms, but in many cases—such as in accountable care organizations (ACOs)—they involve risk sharing or shared savings arrangements between…
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Improving Data Infrastructure for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This report describes insights gained from key informant interviews and an ASPE-hosted listening session on short-term opportunities for improving patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) data infrastructure that addresses the needs of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD).
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