Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Kameron Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP
Kameron Matthews MD, JD is a board-certified family physician and currently serves as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care at the Veterans Health Administration in Washington DC. She earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and her law degree from the University of Chicago.
Variation in Drug Prices at Pharmacies: Are Prices Higher in Poorer Areas?
Low-income individuals often face higher prices for goods and services: pertaining to prescription coverage, those with no coverage pay full retail prices while those with prescription drug coverage benefit from lower prices negotiated by their insurance plans. The authors of Continue Reading …
The Impact of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Prescription Drug Use
Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) combine high-deductible insurance coverage with tax-exempt personal spending accounts, allowing enrollees to pay for their medical costs before reaching the deductible from either their own pocket or with money from the account. The argument is that Continue Reading …
Measuring Efficiency: The Association of Hospital Costs and Quality of Care
The U.S. health care system faces two challenges: increased costs and concerns about quality. It is argued that low-cost hospitals are more efficient with better management and are therefore able to provider higher-quality care. 3,794 hospitals were included in the Continue Reading …
Generics vs. Brand-Name Drugs
As authorized by the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act, generic drugs must be demonstrated to be “bio-equivalent” to their brand-name counterparts. There must be an absence of a significant difference in the availability of the active ingredient at the site of drug Continue Reading …
Individual Health Insurance Mandates – Pros & Cons
Several universal insurance coverage models incorporate an individual mandate which requires every person to obtain health insurance coverage. A main argument for individual mandates centers around the elimination of free-riders who choose to forego private insurance and instead choose to Continue Reading …
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