Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Hannah Abrams
Hannah Abrams is a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine.
Onerous versus Ownership
Practice Ownership in the MACRA Era: Cost, Consolidation, and Quality Continue Reading …
Blocked at the Front Desk
Health services scholars describe “access” as having 5 dimensions: availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and accommodation. That means that even if patients can get insurance to pay for an appointment, make the appointment, get to the clinic, and see the appropriate Continue Reading …
Maryland’s Global Budget Disappoints
It seems simple: give hospitals one overall budget, instead of fee-for-service reimbursement, and they will cut how much they spend. Maryland set out with this plan to reduce health spending in 2010. They implemented global budgets for eight rural hospitals, Continue Reading …
Do Not Pass ACO!
The Stark Law prevents physicians from referring patients to facilities where they have an ownership stake. What happens, though, when the investors behind a hospital also own the post acute care facility to which it refers? Is the transition more Continue Reading …
“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”
Since Michael Brown’s death in 2014, fatal police shootings, and in particular fatal police shootings of both armed and unarmed Black men, have resurfaced as a critical issue in the national conversation on policing and gun violence. The discourse includes Continue Reading …
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