A Health Podyssey

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Each week, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil brings you in-depth conversations with leading researchers and influencers shaping the big ideas in health policy and the health care industry. A Health Podyssey goes beyond the pages of the health policy journal Health Affairs to tell stories behind the research and share policy implications. Learn how academics and economists frame their research questions and journey to the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Health policy nerds rejoice! This podcast is for you.

Episode Date
Amy Stiffarm on Supporting Perinatal Mental Health Within Indigenous Communities
Apr 23, 2024
Jessica Harrison on Integrating Mental Health In Perinatal Care
Apr 16, 2024
Tova Walsh on Fathers' Inclusion Within The Scope of Perinatal Mental Health
Apr 09, 2024
Emily Dossett and Karen Tabb Dina on Perinatal Mental Health
Apr 02, 2024
Amanda Chen on New CMS Nursing Home Ownership Data
Mar 26, 2024
Courtney Baird on How County-Level Mandates Slowed COVID-19 Transmission
Mar 19, 2024
Sarah Gordon on Lessons from the Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Provision
Mar 12, 2024
John Bowblis on Increased Reliance on Staffing Agencies in Nursing Homes
Mar 05, 2024
Kierra Barnett on The Impacts of Discriminatory Policies on Housing and Health
Feb 27, 2024
Sandra Newman on Housing Vouchers and the Measurable Medical Benefits Provided
Feb 20, 2024
Ingrid Gould Ellen on Advancing Health Equity at the Neighborhood Level
Feb 13, 2024
Michael Mayer on Encampment Clearings and Transitional Housing
Feb 06, 2024
Ashley Fox on Major Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
Jan 30, 2024
Tse Yang Lim on How Different Societal Responses Elicited Very Different Mortality Rates During COVID-19
Jan 23, 2024
Cristian Herrera on the COVID-19 Disruption to Latin American and Caribbean Countries
Jan 16, 2024
BEST OF: Chip Kahn on Value-Based Payment Problems
Dec 27, 2023
BEST OF: Marcia Weaver Explains Two Decades of Health Care Spending Effectiveness
Dec 19, 2023
BEST OF: Deepak Palakshappa on Health Care Spending and Food Insecurity
Dec 12, 2023
BEST OF: Matthew Trombley on Why Many Providers Run From Downside Risk In ACOs
Dec 05, 2023
Joel Weissman on Hospitals Addressing Racism
Oct 31, 2023
Zachary Dyer on Measuring Structural Racism at the Neighborhood Level
Oct 24, 2023
Chidinma Ibe on Community Health Workers' Chance to Advance Public Health Policy
Oct 17, 2023
Research and Justice For All: How the Private Sector Can Address Health Equity
Oct 11, 2023
Tina Hernandez-Boussard on Promoting Equity in Clinical Decision-Making
Oct 10, 2023
Research and Justice For All: Leveraging Data to Drive Outcomes in Health Equity
Oct 04, 2023
Jamila Michener on the Power Imbalances Fueling Housing Inequities
Oct 03, 2023
Research and Justice For All: Mental Health and Health Equity
Sep 27, 2023
Jeffrey Marr on Home-Based Care Trends
Sep 26, 2023
Research and Justice For All: Maternal Health and Health Equity
Sep 20, 2023
Aditi Sen on The Mirage of Employer Health Care Price Negotiation
Sep 19, 2023
Research and Justice For All: How Health Equity Accreditation is Changing Health Care
Sep 13, 2023
Jack Chapel on Health Trends in a Shrinking Middle Class
Sep 12, 2023
Research and Justice For All: Health Care Role in Health Equity
Sep 06, 2023
Rebecca Gourevitch on Home Visits' Impact on Prenatal Care
Sep 05, 2023
Sean Dickson on Therapeutics' Impact on Pharmaceutical Prices & Drug Spending
Aug 29, 2023
James Robinson on Life Sciences Innovation Acceleration
Aug 22, 2023
A Health Podyssey x Policy Spotlight w/ Meena Seshamani
Aug 15, 2023
Julia Dennett on the Health Effects of OxyContin Marketing
Aug 01, 2023
Jane Zhu on Narrow Networks in Medicare Advantage Plans
Jul 25, 2023
Yanlei Ma on Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans
Jul 18, 2023
LIVE from Aspen Ideas: Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Jul 11, 2023
Jessica Adler on Jail Conditions and Death Rates
Jun 27, 2023
Andrew Bolibol on Health Insurance Coverage Among LGBT Adults
Jun 20, 2023
Dana Mukamel on How Widespread Dementia is in Nursing Homes
Jun 13, 2023
Kelsey Owsley on 340B's Effect on Oncology Services
Jun 06, 2023
José Figueroa on the State of Dual Eligibles in Integrated Care Programs
May 30, 2023
Brady Post on the Considerable Relationship Between Consolidation and Health Care Treatment Intensity
May 23, 2023
Andrew Anderson on the Costs of Preventable Heart Failure Hospitalizations
May 16, 2023
Anthony LoSasso on Insurer Market Power and Hospital Prices
May 09, 2023
Amelia Bond on 340B's Influence on Biosimilars
May 02, 2023
Gillian SteelFisher on Telemedicine Industry and Patient Preferences
Apr 25, 2023
Michael Chernew on Medicare Advantage Benchmarks
Apr 18, 2023
Matthew McCoy on Hospital Websites Tracking Your Data
Apr 11, 2023
Caitlin Carroll on Rural Hospital Survival
Apr 04, 2023
Michelle Mello on Public Health Law Modernization and Rebalancing
Mar 28, 2023
Mariana Socal on the Global Supply Chain for Generic Drugs
Mar 21, 2023
Jennifer Kao on Drug Repurposing
Mar 14, 2023
Brian Castrucci on the Health of the Public Health Workforce
Mar 07, 2023
Robert Tyler Braun on How Private Equity Investment Can Affect Nursing Home Staffing
Feb 28, 2023
Clare Brown Analyzes Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight Rates
Feb 21, 2023
Lisa Rotenstein on the Intersection of Primary and Mental Health Care
Feb 14, 2023
Louisa Holaday on Building an Equitable Physician Workforce
Feb 07, 2023
Loren Adler on Surprise Ambulance Bills and Beyond
Jan 31, 2023
Salin Sriudomporn on Vaccine Funding Gaps
Jan 24, 2023
Kate Bundorf on the Stabilization of the Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage
Jan 17, 2023
Jennifer Ng'andu on the Relationship Between Income and Health
Dec 20, 2022
Sara Yeatman on the Intersection of Contraceptive Access and College Completion
Dec 13, 2022
Meera Kotagal Identifies Area-Based Socioeconomic Deprivation Indices
Dec 06, 2022
Abdinasir Ali on State Eviction Moratoriums' Impact on Health
Nov 29, 2022
Anna Gassman-Pines on Unemployment Insurance Access Disparities
Nov 15, 2022
Brent Fulton on Cross-Market Hospital Consolidation
Nov 08, 2022
Christopher Ruhm on COVID-19 & Economic Recession's Mortality Effects
Nov 01, 2022
Lisa Meeks on Ableism and Treatment of Physicians with Disabilities
Oct 25, 2022
Linda Long-Bellil Gives an Overview of Health Policy for People with Disabilities
Oct 18, 2022
Madeline Smith-Johnson on Disability Rates of Transgender and Cisgender Adults
Oct 11, 2022
Tara Lagu on Physicians’ Attitudes on People With Disabilities
Oct 04, 2022
Aliza Gordon on Surprise Billing Trends
Sep 27, 2022
Eric Roberts on Dual Eligibles Coverage
Sep 20, 2022
Michael Barnett on Mental Health Care Delivery
Sep 13, 2022
Leemore Dafny
Sep 06, 2022
Excursion: Toyin Ajayi, CEO of Cityblock Health
Aug 30, 2022
Ann Nguyen on Practicing Across State Lines In An Emergency
Aug 23, 2022
Mohammed Ali on Health System Fragmentation and Diabetes Outcomes
Aug 16, 2022
Yanlei Ma on Paid Sick Leave Mandates and Health Care Use
Aug 09, 2022
Barak Richman On The Heavy Costs of Health Care Coding
Aug 02, 2022
Rozalina McCoy on Modernizing Diabetes Care Quality Measures
Jul 26, 2022
Jane Zhu Gets Spooky About Phantom Providers
Jul 12, 2022
Juan Andino Breaks Down Interstate Telehealth Waivers
Jul 05, 2022
Sherry Glied Thinks Health Savings Accounts Have Outgrown Their Original Purpose
Jun 28, 2022
Excursion: Andy Slavitt
Jun 21, 2022
Krista Harrison Peers Into the Intersection of Hospice, Dementia & Care Quality
Jun 14, 2022
Ateev Mehrotra Shines a Light on Indirect Billing
Jun 07, 2022
Rachael Bedard Explains Health Care in Jails
May 31, 2022
Christine Ritchie Reimagines Home-Based Care
May 24, 2022
Caitlin Hicks on Telemedicine and Care Inequities
May 17, 2022
Vilsa Curto on Vertical Integration's Effect on Health Care Prices
May 10, 2022
Brian Powers on How Humana Understands Medicare Advantage Enrollees' Social Needs
May 03, 2022
Alexandra Bhatti Assesses US Child Care Vaccination Laws
Apr 26, 2022
Katie Keith Throws an ACA Birthday Party
Apr 19, 2022
Stacie Dusetzina Shares Why Medicare Beneficiaries May Not Fill Specialty Drug Prescriptions
Apr 12, 2022
Kathryn Phillips Wants to Anticipate Payer Cancer Coverage as Screenings Evolve
Apr 05, 2022
Seth Berkowitz Puts A Figure to Social Determinant Health Spending
Mar 29, 2022
Hector Rodriguez Argues Brick-and-Mortar Health Care Consolidation Is Short-Sighted
Mar 22, 2022
Jill Horwitz Questions the Role of Nonprofit Hospitals
Mar 15, 2022
Ruth Zambrana Argues Structural Racism is a Social Determinant of Health
Mar 08, 2022
Melanie Sabado-Liwag on the Enduring Impact of Colonialism on Health Inequities in the US
Mar 01, 2022
Racism & Health In US Medicine, A Conversation with Harriet Washington
Feb 28, 2022
Monica Simpson Examines Black Women's Lived Experiences with Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services
Feb 22, 2022
Narrative Matters: Honoring Dr. Shalon Irving, A Champion for Health Equity
Feb 17, 2022
Ruqaiijah Yearby Reviews Structural Racism in US Health Care Policy
Feb 15, 2022
Michael Sun on Racial Biases Hiding in EHRs
Feb 08, 2022
George Wehby on Mask Mandates and How Health Services Research Has Changed Since COVID
Feb 01, 2022
Kayte Spector-Bagdady on Racial Diversity and Inclusion in Precision Medicine and Big Data
Jan 25, 2022
Keren Ladin on Why Medicare's Advance Care Planning Payment Is A Work In Progress
Jan 18, 2022
LIVE with Sherry Glied and Craig Garthwaite on National Health Care Spending in 2020 and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jan 11, 2022
Esther Friedman Explains Home Care and Nursing Home Workforce Changes
Dec 14, 2021
Jennifer Attonito on Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout In Florida
Dec 07, 2021
Is fee-for-service the smoking gun for U.S. health care spending?
Nov 30, 2021
Sabrina Poon on the Controversial Two-Midnight Rule & Its Effects on Hospital Admissions
Nov 16, 2021
Ashish Jha on Healthcare Payment Reform, COVID-19 & Health Policy Twitter
Nov 09, 2021
Susanna Trost on Addressing Perinatal Mental Health to Curb Maternal Mortality
Nov 02, 2021
Sara Kornfield on Postpartum Depression, Mental Health and Mother-Infant Bonding During COVID-19
Oct 26, 2021
Pathways to Equitable and Anti-Racist Maternal Mental Health Care
Oct 19, 2021
Perinatal Mental Illness is Very Common. How Can It Be Improved?
Oct 12, 2021
The Health Benefits of Paid Sick Leave Reach Farther Than You Think
Oct 05, 2021
How Dementia Care Integrates Formal and Informal Care Services
Sep 28, 2021
The Burden of Morbidity Among Transgender People
Sep 21, 2021
Leemore Dafny on Hospital Prices, Markets, and Antitrust Regulations
Sep 14, 2021
Pushing Against the QALY Criticism in Drug Pricing
Sep 07, 2021
Julian Harris on the Connection Between Unmet Social Needs and Health Care Costs
Aug 31, 2021
Scott Howell on the Very Large Costs of Drug Utilization Management
Aug 24, 2021
LIVE with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator
Aug 17, 2021
James Robinson On The Drug Market, Innovation, Biosimilars, and What The French Get Right
Aug 10, 2021
Health Care Gaps For Migrants & Asylum Seekers On The Mexican Border During COVID-19
Aug 03, 2021
Many US Citizen Migrant Children Living In Mexico Have Inadequate Health Coverage
Jul 27, 2021
LIVE with Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health IT
Jul 22, 2021
Many US Immigrants May Defer Health Care to Avoid ICE
Jul 20, 2021
An Aging Immigrant Population and the Health Policy Questions It Raises
Jul 13, 2021
The importance of mental health workers for mobile crisis response
Jul 06, 2021
What gun violence does to health
Jun 29, 2021
Timing out-of-pocket spending in health care is challenging
Jun 22, 2021
How biosimilars are affecting the drug markets
Jun 15, 2021
LIVE with Liz Fowler, director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
Jun 09, 2021
Features of a zero-burnout primary care practice
Jun 08, 2021
How shortening skilled nursing facility stays might identify waste in health care delivery
Jun 01, 2021
Julia Adler-Milstein on tracking the evolution of health information exchange
May 25, 2021
Lowering Medicare eligibility may improve cancer outcomes
May 18, 2021
Breaking down how pharmacy deserts and access relate to health equity
May 11, 2021
Understanding private equity investment in hospitals
May 04, 2021
Should social risks factor into health care quality measures?
Apr 27, 2021
ACA closed health coverage gaps for pregnant women. There’s still a long way to go
Apr 20, 2021
Urgent care centers cost more than you think
Apr 13, 2021
The ACA led to an increase in the contraceptive-curious
Apr 06, 2021
Nursing homes have a staff turnover crisis – even before COVID-19
Mar 30, 2021
Do teams work better than solo providers? Spoiler alert: Yes
Mar 23, 2021
Examining the telehealth digital divide for patients with limited English proficiency
Mar 16, 2021
Commercial insurers take note: bundled payments can save thousands per procedure
Mar 09, 2021
What new pandemic unemployment benefits taught us about health
Mar 02, 2021
Yes, COVID-19 changed telemedicine use — but it's complicated
Feb 23, 2021
Building the next generation of American Indian doctors
Feb 16, 2021
What the Biden administration urgently needs to address in health care
Feb 09, 2021
Auditing the admission practices for opioid use disorder treatment
Feb 02, 2021
Health economists may be getting the supply-and-demand framework all wrong
Jan 25, 2021
If you give people coverage, they use it
Jan 19, 2021
And the value of an additional star for physicians and hospitals is...
Jan 12, 2021
Value-based care isn’t transforming healthcare spending
Jan 05, 2021
From Colorado to Washington: Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil discusses his past, healthcare’s future
Dec 29, 2020
Healthcare take note: every greenhouse gas emission matters
Dec 22, 2020
Can climate change solutions be served with school lunches?
Dec 15, 2020
When climate change impacts Indigenous identities, mental health suffers
Dec 08, 2020
'What are we going to do about it?': An essay on racism and health inequities
Dec 01, 2020
Ensuring equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine once it's here
Nov 24, 2020
What Milwaukee tells us about COVID-19 and its impact on race
Nov 17, 2020
A first take on health policy after the 2020 election
Nov 05, 2020
Where a child grows up shapes their health
Oct 27, 2020
Education isn’t the only thing disrupted when schools close
Oct 20, 2020
How new pediatric programs take root and grow
Oct 13, 2020
Improving teen driver safety with virtual driving assessments
Oct 06, 2020