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National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Progress Report: Fiscal Year 2021
Pathogens that have evolved to be resistant to the drugs currently used to treat infections are an ongoing threat to public health, animal health, food production, and national security. Globally, a recent analysis estimated that 1.2 million deaths were caused by antibiotic-resistant (AR) bacteria in 2019, making this threat a leading cause of death for people of all ages worldwide. Domestically…
Fact Sheet
State Fact Sheets: Impacts of the IRA and ACA on Lowering Health Care Costs
Expanding access to high-quality, affordable health care has been a priority of the Biden-Harris Administration. The Administration is working to bring down health care costs and strengthen health care coverage to financially protect individuals during health care emergencies and routine health care use. These Fact Sheets highlight health care cost savings achieved under the Inflation…
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Updated Medicare FFS Telehealth Trends by Beneficiary Characteristics, Visit Specialty and State, 2019-2021
This research report updates prior reports on Medicare FFS telehealth trends during the COVID-19 public health emergency with data through end of 2021, by beneficiary characteristics, visit specialty and geography including by state. Medicare telehealth flexibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic continued to encourage use of telehealth among Medicare beneficiaries in 2021. The report is…
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State Medicaid Telehealth Coverage Policy Decisions Since the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
ASPE contracted with RAND Health Care to catalogue and assess state changes to Medicaid telehealth policies during the COVID-19 PHE through May 2022 and identify the driving circumstances, motivations, and evidence supporting telehealth policy decisions during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). The purpose of this study was to review changes to state Medicaid telehealth policies and/or…
ReportReport to Congress
Evaluation of the Impact of the No Surprises Act on Health Care Market Outcomes: Baseline Trends and Framework for Analysis - Report One
This first report focuses largely on establishing a baseline and a framework for further evaluation. The report details key trends in factors that will be important to evaluate NSA effects including: the implementation and impacts of state surprise billing laws already in effect; trends in market consolidation and concentration; the impact of market consolidation and concentration on prices,…
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Inflation Reduction Act Research Series: Medicare Part D Enrollee Out-of-Pocket Spending: Recent Trends and Projected Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will make key changes to improve drug affordability for people who have Medicare. IRA Part D drug-related provisions include instituting a $35 out-of-pocket cap on a month’s supply of each covered insulin, eliminating out-of-pocket costs for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)-recommended adult vaccines under Part D, imposing a maximum out-of-…
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Federal Data for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research on Economic Outcomes
Researchers from ASPE, NORC, Washington University in St. Louis, Catholic Physicians’ Guild of San Antonio, and the U.S. Department of Labor published an article, “Federal Data for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research on Economic Outcomes,” in the journal Medical Care.
ASPE Issue Brief
Medicare Part B Drugs: Trends in Spending and Utilization, 2008-2021
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released new research on spending and utilization trends of Medicare Part B drugs, drugs administered in physicians' office or hospital outpatient departments rather than being purchased at the pharmacy counter or by mail order. The report showed that Medicare Part B drugs…
Strengthening the Data Infrastructure for Outcomes Research on Mortality Associated with Opioid Poisonings: Final Report
Below is a summary of the problems addressed, the solution, and the accomplishments and products.
Problems Addressed:
Researchers and public health officials frequently rely on the cause of death information made available from the coding and processing of death certificate data for critical programmatic, policy, and research needs.
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CODI PPRL Goodness of Fit Analysis Report
This report summarizes the results of the evaluation conducted on different PPRL packages to identify the best fit for CODI. Included in the evaluation are the open source anonlink and the R PPRL package, as well as a commercial product called CURL (Colorado University Record Linkage), developed by the University of Colorado.
Environmental Scan
CODI Data Architecture Gaps Analyses and Recommendations
The product summaries include findings from three gaps analyses: CODI data needs, CODI query architecture, and differences between the VDW and CDM models. Recommendations are also provided on how to address the identified gaps.
Summary of the Technical Environmental Scan
Programmatic Environmental Scan Mapping Matrix
Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Key Considerations for Administrators and Practitioners
This brief presents considerations for program administrators and other practitioners around increasing the use of primary prevention in human services systems to shift from responding to families after they are in crisis to preventing the crisis before it occurs. This will require developing a national framework for delivering prevention services that promotes equity by co-creating services with…
ASPE Issue Brief
Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Key Considerations for Policy Designers and Funding Partners
This brief provides key considerations for policy designers and funding partners—such as federal staff, technical experts, and philanthropic partners—on incorporating primary prevention into human services delivery. Primary prevention can uproot the causes of adverse outcomes by reducing risk factors and promoting protective factors, thereby creating the safety and stability needed to avoid…
ASPE Issue Brief
Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Opportunities for People with Lived Experience
This brief highlights a new way of delivering primary prevention services that promotes equity by relying on the guidance and leadership of people with lived experience. The policy designers and service providers behind prevention services should have lived experience and/or co-create these services with people who do.
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Bridging the Patient-Center Outcome Research Infrastructure and Technology
The goal of this project was to strengthen the coordinated registry network as a real-world data source for high quality, relevant, reliable, timely and actionable evidence to improve patient outcomes of medical devices, specifically for technologies affecting women’s health. This was done by advancing their ability to capture standardized data, include patient generated data, and link their…
ASPE Issue Brief
Medicare Advantage Overview: A Primer on Enrollment and Spending
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans has increased rapidly in recent years. The share of eligible Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in MA rose from 25% in 2010 to 47% in 2021 (27.6 million enrollees). Payments to MA plans more than doubled between 2015 and 2021 (from $175 to $361 billion), taking the share of total Medicare Parts A & B spending on MA from 38% to 54%. Over the next 10 years,…
Report to Congress
ASPE Report to Congress: Impact of Drug Shortages on Consumer Costs
Prescription drug shortages are an ongoing concern in the United States (U.S.). While prior analyses explore the frequency of drug shortages in the U.S., little is known about the extent to which U.S. shortages impact consumer costs and healthcare systems. Drug shortages impact consumer costs in various ways. Consumers may incur increased costs in the form of higher out-of-pocket costs, higher…
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Building the Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: The 2022 Annual Report Report and Infographic
The 2022 Office of the Secretary Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund (OS PCORTF) Annual Report and infographic highlights the accomplishments of 32 multi-agency projects that supports the four goals of the new strategic plan:
Data Capacity for National Health Priorities;
Data Standards and Linkages for Longitudinal Research;
Technology Solutions to Advance Research…
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Implementation of an Electonic Care Plan for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions
The purpose of this project was to develop and test a suite of electronic Care Plan (eCP) tools for adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC), including an eCP implementation guide specifying data standards and value sets for key use case conditions and two open-source eCP apps (one for patients and one for clinicians).
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Understanding Coverage Considerations for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments
Understanding Coverage Considerations for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments (Updated May 2023)
This report was initially released in August 2022 and subsequently updated in May 2023 to reflect recent legislative changes to Medicare Part D, the planned expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declaration on May 11, 2023, and the announcement that the monoclonal antibody Evusheld is no…