Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Affordability & Delivery System
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 …
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 …
The cost-sharing sweet spot
Value-based insurance designs (VBID) provide cost incentives to encourage individuals to utilize certain highly effective medications in order to cut costs while improving quality and health outcomes. While this has mostly been done in the private market, less is known Continue Reading …
The Provocateurs (Episode 2)
The July episode of the Provocateurs is LIVE on YouTube featuring Renée Volny Darko, Cedric Dark, Tyree Winters and a guest appearance by Todd Johnson. Watch it now:
Is the Affordable Care Act toxic to workers?
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health Care Workforce is a nurse-authored paper that appeared in a recent Heritage Foundation Backgrounder. In it, the author concludes that the Affordable Care Act does not address the root cause Continue Reading …
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