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Special Article: Loss of Subsidized Drug Coverage and Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries nej.md/4jS1wRt #HealthPolicy #PublicHealth

Two new studies inject powerful evidence into the heated Medicaid debate in Washington, showing the public insurance program is saving lives. tradeoffs.org/2025/05/15/new…

Last week was hard for us Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health after losing all NIH grants. This week, we are forced to reckon with what’s next, including shutting down research, considering staffing cuts, and scrambling to cover salaries. HSPH: “ground zero” of NIH cuts nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/…

What happens when you kick 14 million people off their coverage? Illnesses and health care needs don't disappear - costs just shift. Our latest piece finds providers would be saddled with $48B in uncompensated care costs (and break that number out by state):

I want to emphasize that this is 18,000 avoidable deaths per year *of Medicare enrollees.* They aren't in CBO's "uninsured" count — they're older people and folks with disabilities on Medicare who won't get extra financial help because of a proposed moratorium on a regulation.

Avoidable mortality increased in all US states between 2009 and 2021, while it decreased in other high-income countries. ja.ma/4ksQgeV Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH

Our new JAMA Health Forum study adds more evidence on how MA plans enrolling veterans maximize profits by not paying for care. Veterans in high-veteran MA plans are much more likely to have surgical care paid by VA than plan itself—even when surgery occurs in non-VA hospitals…

In our (Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH) JAMA Network Open commentary, we discuss new research that underscores the vital role hospital leadership plays in addressing health-related social needs. Among other findings, the authors show that hospitals w/greater involvement from senior execs & other

The true cost of the reconciliation bill will be measured in lives—over 50,000 per year. It’s a predictable result when you cut off insurance to people who are old, poor and sick. Eric T. Roberts and I discuss in MSNBC NBC News Harvard Health Policy and Management Penn LDI msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

We've lost another healthcare giant: Lucian Leape, the father of the modern patient safety movement and a person of remarkable character & integrity. My wife Katie Hafner wrote his The New York Times obituary – it rightly highlights both his impact & his courage. nytimes.com/2025/07/01/hea…

It’s been nearly 8 months since The National Institute on Aging (NIA) NIH updated its website showing the NIA paylines for research grants. As of today, “an interim funding line for NIA has not yet been determined” for fiscal year 2025. nia.nih.gov/research/grant…

In their new Forefront article, Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH, Eric T. Roberts, Jessica Phelan, and Kenton Johnston from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Penn Medicine, and WashU discuss how, as CMS sets its agenda under new leadership, there are critical opportunities to develop integrated care models for