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Health Affairs This Week

by Health Affairs

Health Affairs This Week places listeners at the center of health policy’s proverbial water cooler. Join editors from Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy research, and special guests as they discuss this week’s most pressing health policy news. All in 15 minutes or less.

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1
Medicare Advantage Payment & Coding Fights Intensify
14:33 Mar 20, 2026
2
FDA & Rare Disease Drugs: Why Policy and Politics Are Heating Up
13:36 Mar 13, 2026
3
State of the Union Healthcare Policy Breakdown
10:17 Mar 6, 2026
4
Is Value-Based Payment Failing U.S. Healthcare? | Andrew Ryan
19:58 Feb 27, 2026
5
Healthcare Storytelling and Digital Health Investment Trends | Christina Farr
23:52 Feb 20, 2026
6
Sweeping Affordable Care Act Changes Proposed for 2027 (Katie Keith)
17:19 Feb 16, 2026
7
2025 Dietary Guidelines: Protein, Policy, and the Ultra-Processed Foods Problem
17:55 Feb 13, 2026
8
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reforms Are (Finally) Afoot
14:05 Feb 6, 2026
9
What Health Policy Katie Keith Is Watching In 2026
18:26 Jan 30, 2026
10
Behind Epic's Latest Antitrust Lawsuit (Gabriel Perna)
22:31 Jan 23, 2026
11
The Great Health Care Vision Board (Stacie Dusetzina)
20:04 Jan 21, 2026
12
It's Not the Prices, Stupid. Michael Chernew on US Health Expenditures
21:57 Jan 16, 2026
13
BEST OF: Power and Its Impact on Medicaid w/ Jamila Michener
25:22 Jan 7, 2026
14
BEST OF: What's Happening with Value-Based Insurance Design? w/ Mark Fendrick
18:14 Dec 24, 2025
15
BEST OF: Medicare Physicians Are Getting a Raise...But At What Cost?
16:54 Dec 17, 2025
16
BEST OF: US Health Spending Projections Back on the Rise w/ Michael Chernew
19:36 Dec 10, 2025
17
BEST OF: The Big Beautiful Bill: A New Era for Health Policy? w/ Katie Keith
17:56 Dec 3, 2025
18
Keeping ACO Models Accountable
16:53 Nov 21, 2025
19
How Are States Even Affording Health Care Costs?
15:20 Nov 14, 2025
20
CMS Drug Price Negotiation Guidance Updates with Rachel Sachs
16:32 Nov 7, 2025
21
Why the U.S. Healthcare System Is Unwell | Allison Oakes
19:40 Oct 31, 2025
22
Pharmaceutical Tariffs Explained: The Will-They-Won’t-They Story of 2025
19:57 Oct 24, 2025
23
Government Shutdown: Health Policy Back in the Political Crossfire
19:03 Oct 17, 2025
24
Future of Primary Care: Bright or Broken? w/ Troyen Brennan
19:57 Oct 10, 2025
25
Physician Autonomy in Decline: The Rise of Deprofessionalization w/ Yul Ejnes
22:05 Oct 3, 2025
26
Make America Healthy Again...Again
16:01 Sep 26, 2025
27
An ACA Supreme Court Case May Have Created an HHS Power Paradox w/ Carmel Shachar
24:38 Sep 19, 2025
28
The Downstream Effects of Politics & Policy on Health Decisions
15:37 Sep 12, 2025
29
Supreme Court Upholds NIH’s Termination of $800M in Grants w/ Katie Keith
22:46 Sep 5, 2025
30
PBM Laws & State Reforms: Are Big Changes Coming?
15:47 Aug 29, 2025
31
The Politics & Business of mRNA Vaccine Investment Cuts
15:03 Aug 22, 2025
32
Losing Public Health Data: What’s at Risk w/ Aaron Carroll
20:10 Aug 1, 2025
33
HR Policies Health Care Needs to Know Right Now w/ Ryan Golden
22:14 Jul 18, 2025
34
Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits: What We've Learned
16:01 Jun 13, 2025
35
Back In Our Budget Reconciliation Bag w/ Katie Keith
22:55 Jun 6, 2025
36
FDA Vague Efforts to Scale Generative AI Internally By End of June
12:22 May 30, 2025
37
Andrew Ryan on State Affordability Standards' Impact on Hospital Prices and Insurance Premiums | A Health Podyssey
43:12 May 28, 2025
38
The Digital Health Industry is So Back w/ Christina Farr
19:52 May 23, 2025
39
Thomas Buchmueller on Prescription Coverage After Medicaid Unwinding | A Health Podyssey
18:32 May 21, 2025
40
Trump's Deregulation Era & The Big Budget Reconciliation's Health Care Impact w/ Katie Keith
22:39 May 16, 2025
41
A Health Podyssey: Caitlin Carroll on Hospital Closures Ultimately Causing Higher Prices
20:58 May 14, 2025
42
What's On Farzad Mostashari's Mind for Health Policy
22:30 May 9, 2025
43
A Health Podyssey: Eric Topol on the Science of Super-Aging and Longevity
32:04 May 7, 2025
44
How Federal Restructuring Affects Data That Affects Health Policy
15:40 May 2, 2025
45
2020 Vs. 2025: What's Different and the Same in Health Policy - Our 200th Episode!
13:47 Apr 25, 2025
46
Whether Health Care M&A is Cooked Or Not w/ Bob Herman
16:44 Apr 18, 2025
47
Food, Nutrition, & Health: A Different Type of Hunger w/ Heather Thomas
25:24 Apr 16, 2025
48
Elizabeth Popp-Berman on How the U.S. Can Build a Just Political Economy for Health
30:37 Apr 14, 2025
49
Where Tariffs and Health Care Meet w/ David Simon
14:48 Apr 11, 2025
50
Food, Nutrition, & Health: Behind the Pages
9:52 Apr 9, 2025
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