Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: OP/notes
Your Boss’ Business?
This post is adapted from MDaware.org with permission. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks both to expand insurance coverage as well as to ensure that offered plans include substantive benefits, including coverage of preventative services, so that Americans have access to Continue Reading …
Health Policy Twitterati 2014
Two years ago, I compiled a list of the . The methodology was elegantly simple, look back several months and count up the number of times I (@PolicyRx) re-tweeted a user’s comments or links. I repeated the same thing about this time Continue Reading …
Place the doctor-patient relationship first [OP/note]
I recently attended a half-day medical event: Primary Care in the 21st Century. Expecting to hear the latest and greatest on new treatments, best care for chronic conditions, and integrating behavioral health into my practice, I was sorely disappointed that Continue Reading …
Back of the Envelope
Recently there have been quite few notable* “back-of-the-envelope” calculations. The included one which estimated how much expanding Medicaid would increase emergency care spending: A back-of-the-envelope calculation, using $435 as the average cost of an emergency department visit, suggests that Medicaid increases annual Continue Reading …
Health insurance should benefit the patient, not the shareholder
As I listened intently on the conference call line, I heard the medical officers from the other insurance companies discussing how to take advantage of our collaborative quality improvement efforts to improve their medical loss ratio (MLR)—basically, how could we Continue Reading …
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