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Pay-for-Performance Incentives for Home Dialysis Use and Kidney Transplant

This cross-sectional study assesses the association of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model with use of home dialysis and kidney transplant during the model’s first 2 years and examines changes in these outcomes by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/ioFr5Ac

Coverage and Access Changes During Medicaid Unwinding

This survey study examines assess early changes in insurance and access to care during Medicaid unwinding among individuals with low incomes in 4 Southern states. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/xE2vW5C

AI Can Be Regulated Using Current Patient Safety Procedures and Infrastructure in Hospitals

This Viewpoint describes the potential benefits and harms of using artificial intelligence (AI) in health care decision-making processes. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/9nQBafg

The Unintended and Anticompetitive Consequences of Laws to Control Health Care Costs

This JAMA Forum discusses the effects of certificate of need laws, certificates of public advantage laws, and restrictions on physician-owned hospitals under the Affordable Care Act on hospital expansion and renovation and health care costs. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/g0ldF4G

Integration of Primary and Oral Health Care—An Unrealized Opportunity

This Viewpoint discusses how dentists could provide some primary health care services as part of an interdisciplinary team, easing the burden on clinicians. from JAMA Internal Medicine Online First https://ift.tt/1LQeG9h

Equity in Access for Veterans in the VA Community Care Program

Health Policy from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/aHZYmJP

Increasing Voter Participation Through Health Care–Based Voter Registration

This cross-sectional study assesses whether leveraging health care settings as venues for voter registration and mobilization is useful, particularly for historically underrepresented populations in elections. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/aloX9zJ

Racial and Ethnic and Rural Variations in Access to Primary Care for Veterans Following the MISSION Act

This cross-sectional study examines the utilization of and wait times for primary care for Black and Hispanic veterans compared with White veterans in rural and urban areas after the VA MISSION Act. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/M426GR0

Resurgent Maternal and Congenital Syphilis in Mississippi—Pathways for Prevention

This Viewpoint discusses Mississippi’s public health challenges particularly as they relate to resurgent maternal and congenital syphilis. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/Pj3N0H5

Cost—A Hidden Aspect of Equity-Grounded Implementation Science

This JAMA Forum discusses the cost of health inequities, the lack of attention to implementation science and the costs in the research enterprise, and provides recommendations for targeting cost in equity-grounded implementation science. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/RuAZDxy

Turn a Kind Eye—Offering Positive Reframing

This essay describes the importance of physicians using positive reframing with patients. from JAMA Internal Medicine Online First https://ift.tt/KOdTQcs

National Institutes of Health Designates Disabled People a Health Disparity Population

This Viewpoint examines watershed moments in improving health care for people with disabilities in the US. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/5VfTEir

It Is Time to Consider More Price Regulation in Health Care

This JAMA Forum discusses the promise and pitfalls of regulating prices in the US health care system. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/Q9t3PnO

Less Care at Higher Cost—The Medicare Advantage Paradox

This Viewpoint makes the case for eliminating Medicare Advantage and doubling down on Traditional Medicare. from JAMA Internal Medicine Online First https://ift.tt/wJe80N4

Advancing Interoperability and Prior Authorization Reform

This Viewpoint discusses the provisions and potential of the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/JLzV3vS

New Federal Program to Address Child Hunger Begins This Summer

This JAMA Forum discusses a new summer nutrition program to address child hunger, the evidence on the effects of this and other summer programs, the role for health professionals, and the policy considerations for participation by individual states. from JAMA Health Forum New Online https://ift.tt/EbOguMl

Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Health Privacy Post-Dobbs

This Viewpoint discusses the dangers to abortion providers and patients of law enforcement access to sexual and reproductive health information. from JAMA Internal Medicine Online First https://ift.tt/e0skOyF