Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
The Doc Fix
Medicare compensates physicians via a universal fee schedule. To limit costs, the “Sustainable Growth Rate” (SGR) was adopted in 1997 to allow for increased Medicare expenditures based on national economic growth. The sustainable growth rate (SGR) is a statutory formula Continue Reading …
SNMA | 2010 | National Advocacy Day
June 20, 2010 Dr. Cedric Dark was an invited speaker for the 2010 National Advocacy Day for the Student National Medical Association on June 20, 2010. His discussion before a select group of SNMA members was on the topic “Effective Continue Reading …
Health IT use for Under-served Communities
Much like other technological breakthroughs in medicine, health information technology (HIT) such as electronic medical records (EMR) are assumed to diffuse more slowly to patients and communities that are under-served. Researchers undertook a challenging question: how well have physicians added Continue Reading …
P4P in Nursing Homes
Nursing homes receive the majority of their income through Medicaid. Thus, state administrators wield a powerful lever for improving quality in nursing home care through pay-for-performance programs. Amidst increasing pressure for higher quality and lower cost health care, monetary incentives Continue Reading …
How Massachusetts Can Inform the Nation
Massachusetts serves as an experimental guide for a nation seeking to implement dramatic health care reforms. In November 2009, the Urban Institute conducted a site visit and a series of interviews of key stake holders to analyze the health system Continue Reading …