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  • How Oregon’s Hospital Payment Cap Brought Stability Amid Change
    Jan 20 2026

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Roslyn Murray of Brown University to discuss her paper exploring how Oregon’s 2019 hospital payment cap saved $50 million annually while having little impact on hospital finances, operations, or patient care.

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    24 min
  • US Health Care Spending 2009–2019: What Changed? (Sherry Glied)
    Jan 13 2026

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Sherry Glied of New York University on her paper that explores how U.S. health spending growth slowed to less than half its historical rate, driven by lower utilization, slower price growth, and shifts in care delivery and administration.

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    27 min
  • BEST OF: J. Michael McWilliams on the Effects of Patient Survey Data on Risk Adjustment
    Dec 30 2025

    Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews J. Michael McWilliams of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital on his recent paper that explores opportunities for the use of patient health survey data for risk adjustment to limit distortionary coding incentives in Medicare.

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    37 min
  • BEST OF: Steven Lieberman on The Meteoric Rise Of Medicare Advantage
    Dec 23 2025

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Steven M. Lieberman of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles on his recent paper that explores how Medicare Advantage has seen significant enrollment growth and what reform efforts can be attempted to rebalance traditional Medicare and MA.

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    28 min
  • BEST OF: Zirui Song on Private Equity’s Effect on Hospital Costs and Utilization
    Dec 16 2025

    Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Zirui Song of Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital on his recent paper that explores how private equity acquisition impacts hospital costs and utilization and what variations were seen throughout 2005–19.

    Order the February 2025 issue of Health Affairs.

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    23 min
  • BEST OF: Don Berwick on How to Fix US Health Care
    Dec 9 2025

    Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Don Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement about his paper as part of the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2025 package that proposes strategies for how health care in the US could be transformed.

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    30 min
  • BEST OF: Eric Topol on the Science of Super-Aging and Longevity
    Dec 2 2025

    Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Eric Topol, Executive Vice President of Scripps Research, on his new book, Super Agers, which provides an evidence-based approach on extending healthy lifespans.

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    32 min
  • Job Lock’s Hidden Health Costs w/ Tiffany Lemon
    Nov 25 2025

    Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Tiffany Lemon of Arizona State University on her recent paper exploring the concept of job-lock as it pertains to employer-sponsored health insurance and its impacts on adult physical and mental health.

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    31 min