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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 1h

🚨📝 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

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 1d

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

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 2d

📌 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

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 6d

🎤 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

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 7d

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:

Health policy survey launches with insight on Medicaid work requirements | Cornell Chronicle

Most health policy experts don’t think new Medicaid work requirements introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would substantially increase employment among Medicaid-enrolled, working-age…

news.cornell.edu

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 7d

👉 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...

Leading Health Policy Scholars: Medicaid Work Requirements Won’t Increase Employment | Health Affairs Forefront

Although there remains uncertainty about the eventual impact of work requirements, this survey suggests that many of the country’s leading health care policy experts believe that they are likely to…

www.healthaffairs.org

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 8d

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

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 9d

📢 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:

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 - PubMed

Our study did not identify effects of state medical cannabis laws on health care use related to CUD or OUD treatment or overdose among Medicare beneficiaries younger than age 65 years with chronic…

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 13d

📌 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

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 15d

📣 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

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 16d

📣 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

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 20d

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:

Breastfeeding in the United States: Strategies to Support Families and Achieve National Goals

nap.nationalacademies.org

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 21d

⭐️ 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

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 23d

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:

State variation in staffing and characteristics of nursing homes most impacted by new federal standards

AbstractIntroduction. New federal minimum staffing standards aim to increase staffing in nursing homes. As the future of the new rule remains uncertain, th

academic.oup.com

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 27d

🖋️ 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:

Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire

In late July, President Trump signed an executive order urging local authorities to find ways to force homeless individuals with mental illness into hospitals. On its face, some observers might find…

thefulcrum.us

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · 29d

⭐️ 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

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Sep 4

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:

AI should come with green, yellow, and red lights for mental health

There is an immediate need for a new, agile process that helps everyday people find safe and trustworthy mental health AI support without stifling innovation.

www.statnews.com

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Sep 3

📌 🖥️ The National Institute on Aging is hosting a virtual workshop on Changing Ownership of Health Care Entities in the U.S. on Thursday (9/4) and Friday (9/5) | 10 AM-2 PM ET.

CHPC Faculty, Drs. Mark Unruh, Amelia Bond, and Lawrence Casalino will be presenting!

www.nia.nih.gov/research/dbs...

Changing Ownership of Health Care Entities in the U.S.

NIA will host the “Changing Ownership of Health Care Entities in the U.S.” workshop on September 4-5, 2025.

www.nia.nih.gov

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Sep 2

📢 Calling all journalists 📢

Join our third session of the Cornell Health Policy Center Journalism Series “Supporting Data-Driven Journalism on Medicaid Policy!”

🗓️ Thursday, September 25th | 2:00 PM–3:00 PM ET on Zoom

Register now:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CHPC Journalism Series: Supporting Data-Driven Journalism on Medicaid Policy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

In this session, two Cornell experts will identify key data resources for reporting on timely Medicaid policy topics, including: - Impact of emerging federal and state policy developments - Coverage trends...

weillcornell.zoom.us

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣 New CHPC brief out now! 📣

The brief titled, “Policy Strategies for Inclusion of Pregnant and Lactating Women in Vaccine Research” summarizes a 2025 study by faculty members Drs. Beth McGinty, Sallie Permar, and Laura Riley, and colleagues.

Brief by: Shafia Akey

📖 Read more here:

Adobe Acrobat - PLW Vaccine Research Brief.pdf

View this file, and add comments too.

acrobat.adobe.com

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Aug 27

💊 Dr. Dhruv Khullar @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social, CHPC associate center director and associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, has an article out in The New Yorker titled, “Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?”

📰 Read more here:

Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?

For many medical conditions, lifesaving treatments may be hiding in plain sight.

www.newyorker.com

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Aug 25

📌 Dr. Czarina Behrends and colleagues have a paper out in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports titled, “On-site health service delivery models at syringe services programs (SSPs) in the United States: Results of a national cross-sectional survey."

📖 Read here:

www.sciencedirect.com

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Aug 21

🖥️ Dr. Fei Wang and colleagues published a study on an AI-based method to sort cancer patients by likely outcomes. The new method’s ability to predict treatment outcomes from health record data surpassed that of any other method published to date.

🗞️ Read more here: buff.ly/eXk4Fps

Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Aug 19

🚨 Want to learn more about key public data resources for reporting on Medicaid policy issues?

Join our third session of the Cornell Health Policy Center Journalism Series
“Supporting Data-Driven Journalism on Medicaid Policy!”

🔗 Register: buff.ly/WsGMU4H

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Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social · Aug 18

📌 Dr. Amy Bond @ambond.bsky.social was a panelist at the National Cancer Institute's August 14th webinar on Medicare Advantage enrollment and plan selection behaviors where she discussed potential study designs that support causal inference.

💻 Learn more here: buff.ly/6QV0iXZ

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