Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Medicaid
Will primary care fail us?
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is set to take place in just over half of the states. Additional private insurance expansions using health insurance exchanges are set to take place in the next 100 days. However, providing health insurance Continue Reading …
Is there a benefit to care management?
Care management requires nurses to engage patients with hopes of reducing costs and improving outcomes. Care management programs often utilize direct communication between patients and nurses to encourage appropriate treatment while ultimately reducing visits to emergency rooms and hospitals. Besides Continue Reading …
Medicaid or Placebo: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
I really like the way Avik Roy went about explaining the Oregon Study, and for that matter, statistics to his readers. While he is right to try to break down the Oregon Medicaid study like a similar RCT for a Continue Reading …
Medicaid or Placebo. Which would you choose?
New data from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment has thought leaders in the health policy world dueling over the statistics these past 24 hours. As background, we (Dr. Matthews) previously discussed the premise behind the : “Oregon has recently opened Continue Reading …
New-Age American Health Care System (Part 3)
In Part 3 of a discussion from the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Conference in Louisville, KY this past weekend, Bryant Cameron Webb and I discussed changes to Medicaid. The Underserved One of the major elements impacting the care of Continue Reading …
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