Episodios

  • How Employers Are Navigating Rising Health Care Costs
    Nov 11 2025

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    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Matthew Rae, Associate Director of the Health Care Marketplace Program at KFF, about his recent paper exploring the findings from the KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey, reporting on benefits in 2025.

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    26 m
  • Protecting Public Health in a Politicized Era w/ Michael Osterholm
    Nov 4 2025

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    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), about the future of U.S. public health, the politicization of vaccine oversight, and why fragmented state guidance threatens pandemic preparedness. He also discusses his new book, The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics.

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    35 m
  • Inside U.S. Generic Drug Approvals: Risk, Regulation & Policy w/ Jennifer Kao
    Oct 28 2025

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    In this episode, Rob Lott interviews Jennifer Kao of the UCLA Anderson School of Management in front of a live audience about her paper in the October 2025 issue of Health Affairs exploring the impact of risk evaluation and mitigation strategies on generic approvals of US pharmaceutical products.


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    32 m
  • The Different Costs — and Sites — of Care for Commercial Insurers w/ Matthew Maughan
    Oct 21 2025

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    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Matthew Maughan of Brown University about his paper exploring how commercial insurers paid more for procedures at hospital outpatient departments as compared to ambulatory surgical centers.

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    21 m
  • Profits vs. Patient Care: Alexander Soltoff on Private Equity in Hospice Care
    Oct 14 2025

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    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Alexander Soltoff of Emory University about his recent paper exploring how private equity-owned hospices reported higher profits and lower patient care spending when compared to other ownership models.

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    27 m
  • Can Challenge Prizes Transform Drug Discovery? w/ Tris Dyson
    Oct 7 2025

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    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Tris Dyson, Founder of Challenge Works on his efforts in cultivating challenge prizes as an opportunity to nurture innovation in science and health care, the newly launched Longitude Prize on ALS, the transformation of drug discovery, and more.

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    31 m
  • Medicaid’s Role in Rising Buprenorphine Use w/ Stephen Crystal
    Sep 30 2025

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    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Stephen Crystal of Rutgers University about his recent paper exploring how states with substantial increases in buprenorphine uptake as an opioid use disorder treatment response grew alongside increased Medicaid prescribing from 2018–24.

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    30 m
  • Treatment Courts and Health Outcomes w/ Elizabeth Van Nostrand
    Sep 23 2025

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    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Elizabeth Van Nostrand of Temple University about her recent paper exploring how Indiana adults participating in treatment court program tended to have better health outcomes than individuals who applied and were accepted but chose not to participate.

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    21 m