New National Health Spending Data and Introducing Health Affairs Forefront

Listen to Health Affairs' Rob Lott and Chris Fleming discuss CMS' new national health care spending data from 2020 published in Health Affairs and the rebrand of the Health Affairs Blog to its new digital publication Health Affairs Forefront.

Show Notes

This week, Health Affairs released the annual national health care spending data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Using data from 2020, the first data which relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, the report found health spending reached a record high in 2020.
 
But Health Affairs had some of its own news this week as well. We are rebranding our respected Health Affairs Blog into a new digital publication named Health Affairs Forefront.  

Health Affairs' Rob Lott and Chris Fleming convene on Health Affairs This Week to discuss CMS' new national health care spending data and what's behind the rebrand to Health Affairs Forefront.

Related Links:

• National Health Care Spending In 2020: Growth Driven By Federal Spending In Response To The COVID-19 Pandemic (Health Affairs)
• Welcome to Health Affairs Forefront (Health Affairs Forefront)
• Innovation At The Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services: A Vision For The Next 10 Years (Health Affairs Forefront)
• The Workforce for Non-Police Behavioral Health Crisis Response Doesn't Exist - We Need To Create It (Health Affairs Forefront)
• Podcast: LIVE with with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator (A Health Podyssey)

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Andrew Barnes wrote the theme music for Health Affairs This Week. He writes music under the name Fake Fever.

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