Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Ellana Stinson, MD, MPH
Ellana Stinson, MD is an emergency medicine physician practicing in Boston, MA.
Insurers Make use of Medicare’s Leverage
Costs are increasingly being directly placed on consumers as insurers are shifting costs in the form of premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses. In addition to increasing cost sharing, consumers are also experiencing narrower networks as a means for insurers to Continue Reading …
Decreasing Disparities in Health Coverage
Implemented in 2010, the ’s major coverage expansion was designed to improve the accessibility and affordability of health insurance. Although the ACA’s coverage expansion should decrease disparities in health care coverage among racial and ethnic minorities, both immigration status and Continue Reading …
Disparities due to Pre-existing Conditions
Despite attempts to improve access to care via the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, continue to persist. This study examines some of the causes of racial disparities between blacks and whites; it further attempts to understand and isolate the Continue Reading …
To privatize or not to privatize?
As the business of health care continues to evolve, so does the strategic structuring of many health care organizations across the nation. With diminishing funds from local or state governments, reductions in Medicare and Medicaid payments, and intensifying competition, many Continue Reading …
Medicaid DSH cuts won’t impact quality
This study provided weak evidence to suggest an association between net Medicaid DSH payments and hospital quality of care. Its results suggest an inelastic response to declining Medicaid DSH payments. Of the 9-quality measures that were created, there showed larger Continue Reading …
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