Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Laura Medford-Davis, MD, MS
Dr. Medford-Davis is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and works as a health care consultant. Dr. Medford-Davis earned her undergraduate degrees in Spanish and Psychology at the University of Oklahoma and her medical degree at Harvard Medical School. She trained in emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. She completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Masters of Science in Health Policy and Research.
EDs Are Profitable, But Just Barely
Wilson and Cutler analyzed several large databases to calculate the profit margin for all 120 million ED visits in the United States in 2009. The numbers for Medicare patients were real; the numbers for Medicaid and the uninsured were estimated. Continue Reading …
Can telemedicine save money?
This study capitalized on a natural experiment: A company that owned several nursing homes in Massachusetts decided to invest in telemedicine, technology that allows patients and doctors two-way communication via videoconferencing. To study its effects, researchers convinced the company to Continue Reading …
Healthcare spending still growing, but slowly
The United States spent $2.8 trillion – $8,915 per person or 17.2% of the GDP – on healthcare in 2012. Eighty-five percent went to “personal health spending” meaning drugs, devices, and payments to hospitals, doctors, home health, and nursing homes. Continue Reading …
Cost: A Side Effect of Care
Physicians often underestimate the costs of care thereby imposing a potentially catastrophic side effect on patients. Health care costs consume an increasing proportion of the GDP while individual Americans face an increasing financial burden from medical bills. Two recent articles Continue Reading …
Medicaid: Equal yet Unequal
Time spent and interventions conducted for Medicaid and private patients are similar; yet outcomes are not. Critics of , particularly state leaders who have chosen not to expand Medicaid, argue that Medicaid provides a lower quality of care through a Continue Reading …
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