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Category: Disparities
Variation in Drug Prices at Pharmacies: Are Prices Higher in Poorer Areas?
Low-income individuals often face higher prices for goods and services: pertaining to prescription coverage, those with no coverage pay full retail prices while those with prescription drug coverage benefit from lower prices negotiated by their insurance plans. The authors of Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2009
As a new dawn embraces the United States of America, President Barack Obama and the 111th Congress face several seemingly insurmountable challenges. The armed forces are divided between two wars, the economy is in shambles, and the health care system is at Continue Reading …
How Patient Case-Mix Adjustment affects Pay-for-Performance Payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has a pay-for-performance pilot program that links hospital process performance to financial incentives. This paper sought to determine whether patient case mix alters overall performance ratings relative to other hospitals and whether adjustments Continue Reading …
African American Physicians and Organized Medicine: Contrition, Reconciliation, and Collaboration
Like the nation as a whole, organized medicine in the United States carries a legacy of racial bias and segregation that must acknowledged and understood. For more than 100 years, many state and local medical societies openly discriminated against black Continue Reading …
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