As an essential part of its effort to achieve near universal coverage, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) extends sizable tax credits to most people who buy insurance on the newly established health care exchanges. Yet several lawsuits have been filed challenging the availability of those tax credits in the thirty-four states that refused to set up their own exchanges. The lawsuits are premised on a strained interpretation of the ACA that, if accepted, would make a hash of other provisions of the statute and undermine its effort to extend coverage to the uninsured. The courts should reject this latest effort to dismantle a critical feature of the ACA.
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JAMA Health Forum
January 2025
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Clinical Product Development, Waymark, San Francisco, California.
Importance: Rising prescription medication costs under Medicaid have led to increased procedural prescription denials by health plans. The effect of unresolved denials on chronic condition exacerbation and subsequent acute care utilization remains unclear.
Objective: To examine whether procedural prescription denials are associated with increased net spending through downstream acute care utilization among Medicaid patients not obtaining prescribed medication following a denial.
Eur J Pediatr
January 2025
Pôle EDIN, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale Et Clinique, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
To evaluate the management and costs of severe hypoglycemia (SH) in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in our Belgian tertiary pediatric care center. In the EPI-GLUREDIA study, clinical parameters from children and adolescents with T1D were retrospectively analyzed from July 2017 to June 2024. The characteristics of SH and its treatment were collected during the medical consultation following the SH episode.
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January 2025
Gastroenterology Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University Hospital Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major global health concern, with liver transplantation (LT) serving as a critical treatment for end-stage liver disease caused by HBV. However, the risk of HBV reinfection after LT remains significant, necessitating effective prophylaxis. Today, the combination of hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) and high-barrier nucleos(t)ide analogues (NUCs) is the standard of care for preventing HBV recurrence post-LT but concerns about the cost of HBIG and access to high-barrier NUCs have led to a reduction in the use, dose, and duration of HBIG in recent years.
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January 2025
Spotlight Consultations Ltd, Portsmouth, UK.
Background And Aims: Burnout affects >50% of physicians and nurses. Spotlight-AQ is a personalized digital health platform designed to improve routine diabetes visits. We assessed cost-effectiveness, visit length, and association with health care professional (HCP) burnout.
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