Happy Holidays from the Cornell Health Policy Center! We are grateful to our network for a collaborative and impactful 2025, and we look forward to a fantastic 2026!

📢 CHPC faculty member and Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Robert "Tyler" Braun, has a new paper out in JAMA Health Forum titled "Private Equity Acquisitions of Home Health Agencies." 👉 Read the full article here: buff.ly/hbpv0rX

✍️ Dr. Colleen Carey, a CHPC faculty member and Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Cornell University, has a new viewpoint piece out in JAMA titled "Real-World Evidence for Medicare Drug Price Negotiations." 👉 Read the full article here: buff.ly/xHfvZPJ

⭐️ Congratulations to CHPC faculty member Dr. Jiani Yu for being selected to the 2026 cohort of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Editorial Fellowship! Fellows work with the JAMA editorial team to learn about editorial decision-making & enhance skills in scientific communication.

📍Dr. Hye-Young "Arian" Jung, CHPC faculty and Associate Professor in Weill Cornell’s Department of Population Health Sciences, has a new publication out in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: "Medicare Advantage Enrollment in Nursing Homes: 2010–2023." 👉 Read here: buff.ly/IergsMC

⭐️ CHPC Associate Center Director Dr. William Schpero did a short video feature for the American Journal of Managed Care: "Work Requirements, Expiration of Subsidies Will Leave Millions Without Insurance." 📹 Watch here:

📌 CHPC leadership Dr. Beth McGinty, Dr. Will Schpero, & Weill Cornell Medical student Michael Liu have a piece out in Health Affairs Scholar: "Regional changes in inpatient psychiatric bed capacity and availability of alternative psychiatric services, 2012-2022" 👉 Read here:

🚨📝 New Cornell Health Policy Center memo out now! This brief titled “Trends in U.S. Nursing Home Ownership and Impacts on Quality of Care” synthesizes four studies on nursing home ownership by CHPC faculty members Dr. Mark Unruh, Dr. Robert Tyler Braun, & colleagues. Read here: buff.ly/clUa3eO

📣 Join us TODAY for a Cornell Health Policy Center Speaker Series event: "Physician Decision-Making and the Marketing of Prescription Drugs," featuring Andrew H. Martin. 🗓️ Monday, December 1st | 11:40 AM-12:55 PM EST 🔗 Register for Zoom: buff.ly/MTnYiOJ

📝 CHPC co-director Dr. Beth McGinty and faculty member Dr. Sallie Permar have a perspective piece out in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, "Medicaid Cuts and U.S. Children’s Health — Fixing a Broken System." 👉 Read the full piece here:

🎤 Join us for an upcoming Cornell Health Policy Center Speaker Series event: "Physician Decision-Making and the Marketing of Prescription Drugs," featuring Andrew H. Martin, MBA. 🗓️ Monday, December 1st | 11:40 AM-12:55 PM EST 👉 Register for Zoom: buff.ly/t4OD65G

📌 Dr. Sarah Gutkind, Postdoctoral Associate in Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, and colleagues have a paper out in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine: "Racial and ethnic disparities in prehospital restraint use and sedation." 🔗 Read full publication: buff.ly/du5hJx8

📌 Between-program variation explains 38.6–48.3% of variation in take home methadone delivery. 👉 That's a key takeaway from "Developing and validating measures of take-home methadone with administrative data," a new paper by CHPC faculty member Dr. Yuhua Bao. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/eH0Ecrl

🫀 Dr. Jiani Yu has a paper out in JAMA Internal Medicine titled, "Mobile Integrated Health vs a Transitions of Care Coordinator for Patients Discharged After Heart Failure." 🔗 Read the full publication here: buff.ly/28CGyy9

⭐️ Dr. Allison Ju-Chen Hu, Kristen Underhill, & Yuhua Bao have a paper out in Health Affairs titled "State Laws Banning Prior Authorization For Medications For Opioid Use Disorder Increased Substantially, 2015–23." 👉 Read the CHERISH summary: buff.ly/xc2iXWa 🔗 Read publication: buff.ly/AH6mwyp

👉 See the Health Affairs Forefront summary of the Cornell Health Policy Center's most recent Insight Panel survey on Medicare Advantage for key takeaways and insights: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

🚨 NEW Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel results released! In this survey, health policy experts were asked to weigh in on Medicare Advantage. For key takeaways and trends, check out the CHPC website: buff.ly/YCsRiN0

📣 It's not too late to join us THIS Thursday for a Weill Cornell Medicine Health Policy & Economics Speaker Series event: "Nudges vs. Navigation: Evidence From a Policy RCT to Promote Medicaid Retention," feat. Dr. Adrianna McIntyre. 🗓️ November 13th | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Join Zoom: buff.ly/E5bmarz

Dr. Pragya Kakani has an editorial out in JAMA Health Forum titled, "The Purpose and Value of Editorial Content at JAMA Health Forum." Her piece describes the importance of including evidence-based opinion in academic journals to promote public trust in science. Read more:

Dr. Arnab Ghosh, CHPC associate faculty member and assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has a paper out in JAMA Network titled, "Hurricane Exposure and Risk of Long-Term Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes." Read the full publication here:

📣 Join us for a speaker series event, "Nudges vs. Navigation: Evidence From a Policy RCT to Promote Medicaid Retention," hosted by the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell Medicine! Thursday, November 13th | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM | Zoom Link: lnkd.in/eEHEG-hN

📣 ICYMI: Conrad Bhamani, Manager at the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science and Cornell alum, gave a talk last week: "How the Inflation Reduction Act is Changing the US Pharmaceutical Industry." 🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/2ntcC1b

📌 Dr. Robert "Tyler" Braun has a new paper out in Health Affairs: "Private Equity-Owned Hospices Report Highest Profits, Lowest Patient Care Spending Compared with Other Ownership Models." Read the full publication here: buff.ly/YzRv1ln

⭐️💉 Congratulations to Dr. Sallie Permar for delivering the prestigious Stanley A. Plotkin Lecture in Vaccinology hosted by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society! Her talk, “Eliminating Lifelong Disabilities Through Vaccination,” highlighted the power of vaccines to protect children's futures.

Join us TOMORROW for our CHPC Speaker Series event, "How the Inflation Reduction Act is Changing the US Pharmaceutical Industry." In this seminar, expert Conrad Bhamani will discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act reformed how drug prices are set in the Medicare program. Register: buff.ly/iBfqwsT

📣It's not too late to join us TOMORROW for our CHPC Speaker Series event: "Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens," featuring expert panelists Dr. Zoe Lindenfeld and Dr. Amanda Isabel Mauri. Register for Zoom: buff.ly/4NtgbiU

📣 It’s not too late to join us TOMORROW for a special seminar, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.” The panel will be moderated by Dhruv Khullar and feature nationally recognized experts: Michael Chernew, Sherry Glied, & Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA. 📌 Register: buff.ly/pJl5Jfp

Dr. Amanda I. Mauri, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management at the University of Maryland, will be a speaker in our seminar, “Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens." About Dr. Mauri: buff.ly/dAy7pLO Register: buff.ly/28asM1M ️

Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, will be an expert panelist in our upcoming virtual panel, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.” About Dr. Jain: buff.ly/LtmPbhq 📌 Register: buff.ly/snmvxDK ️🗓️ Tuesday, October 21 from 4 PM–5 PM ET

🎤 Join us for our upcoming CHPC Speaker Series event: "How the Inflation Reduction Act is Changing the US Pharmaceutical Industry." featuring Conrad Bhamani, Manager at the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science and Cornell alum. Register Here: weillcornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📌 Dr. Sri Lekha Tummalapalli has a paper out in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, titled "Understanding Hospitalized Patients with ESKD Experiencing Homelessness in the United States." 📖 Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FwPXT9d

Dr. Zoe Lindenfeld, Assistant Professor of Health Administration at Rutgers University, will be a speaker in our upcoming seminar, “Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens" About Dr. Lindenfeld: buff.ly/ceC9UUv Register here: buff.ly/EAzxV2p

For decades, the narrowly defined Emergency Medicaid (EM) program has reimbursed hospitals for emergency care provided to uninsured, low-income immigrants. In @nejm.org, we write in defense of state flexibilities in EM, which seem at risk: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... cc @chpc-cornell.bsky.social

🚨📝 New CHPC memo out now! This brief titled, “State Policy Levers to Improve Medicaid Pediatric Provider Payment” synthesizes a recent study by CHPC/Weill Cornell faculty members Drs. Beth McGinty, Kayla Tormohlen, Sallie Permar, Cori Green, & Ilina Das Ewen. 📖 Read here: buff.ly/fxNfaMG

Dr. Sherry Glied, Professor of Public Service at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, will be an expert panelist in our upcoming virtual panel, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.” About Dr. Glied: buff.ly/6mWlI06 Register: buff.ly/snmvxDK 🗓️ Tues., 10/21 4–5PM ET

📌 Faculty in the News Dr. Mark Unruh, associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, was interviewed by a reporter from Morning Brew’s Healthcare Brew on nursing home ownership and its impact on care quality. 👉 Read the full article here: buff.ly/AZVEoJB

🎤 Join us for our upcoming CHPC Speaker Series event: "Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens." 🗓️ Wednesday, October 22 from 1:30 PM-3 PM ET 📍Join in-person at the Cornell Ithaca campus or via Zoom Register for Zoom: buff.ly/PyAE5Is

Most health care policy experts don’t think new Medicaid work requirements would substantially increase employment among Medicaid-enrolled, working-age adults. 👉 See Cornell Chronicle story releasing more results from the first Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel survey here:

👉 Check out the Health Affairs Forefront summary of findings from the first Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel survey sharing expert perspectives on Medicaid work requirements under the OBBBA: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Dr. Michael Chernew, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, will be an expert panelist in our upcoming virtual panel, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.” About Dr. Chernew: buff.ly/O00WXbJ 📌 Register now: buff.ly/vHdnVRH ️🗓️ Tuesday, 10/21 | 4PM–5PM ET

📢 Drs. Beth McGinty and Kayla Tormohlen have a new paper out in The Milbank Quarterly: “The Impact of Medical Cannabis Laws on Cannabis and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Overdose-Related Health Care Utilization Among Adults With Chronic Noncancer Pain.” 👉 Read here:

📌 CHPC affiliate faculty fellow Dr. Madeline Sterling has a paper out in JACC: Advances titled, "Envisioning Home Health as a Critical Component of Learning Health Systems to Improve Evidence-Based Care in Heart Failure." 👤 About Dr. Sterling: buff.ly/ti98dKw 📖 Full publication: buff.ly/wMoG3IX

📣 Join us for a special seminar, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future,” hosted by the Cornell Health Policy Center and The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership. ️🗓️ Tuesday, October 21 from 4 PM–5 PM ET 📌 Register now: buff.ly/EySAtci

📣 It’s not too late to join us THIS THURSDAY for our September CHPC Journalism Series webinar: “Supporting Data-Driven Journalism on Medicaid Policy!” 🗓️ Thursday, September 25th | 2:00-3:00 PM ET Register: buff.ly/PqOT9rD

CHPC associate director Dr. Jeff Niederdeppe was part of a National Academies Consensus Committee on promoting breastfeeding in the United States. Explore highlights from the committee's recent report here:

⭐️ Dr. William Schpero will be an expert panelist and moderator in our upcoming CHPC Journalism Series webinar: “Supporting Data-Driven Journalism on Medicaid Policy,” alongside Dr. Angelica Meinhofer. 📖 Read more about Dr. Schpero here: buff.ly/Ipgl1Ik 📌 Register now: buff.ly/PqOT9rD

CHPC faculty members Drs. Jiani Yu, Mark Unruh, Tyler Braun, & Arian Jung, and colleagues have a publication out in Health Affairs Scholar titled "State Variation in Staffing and Characteristics of Nursing Homes Most Impacted by New Federal Standards" Read here:

🖋️ Dr. Charley Willison, CHPC faculty member and Assistant Professor of Public Health at Cornell University, has an op-ed out in The Fulcrum titled "Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump's New Executive Order Could Backfire." 🗞️ Read here:

⭐️ Dr. Angelica Meinhofer will be an expert panelist in our upcoming CHPC Journalism Series webinar: “Supporting Data-Driven Journalism on Medicaid Policy,” alongside Dr. William Schpero 📖 Learn more about Dr. Meinhofer: buff.ly/Di1qYlq 📌 To hear her insights, register now: buff.ly/Pg3UWBw

Drs.Tanzeem Choudhury and Dan Adler have a new opinion piece out in Stat News titled, "AI should come with green, yellow, and red lights for mental health." Their piece explores a potential system for sorting the good mental health AI tools from the bad. Read more here: