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Low Cost Doctors Save Patients $26 per Visit

Posted onFebruary 20, 2017February 22, 2018AuthorTyree Winters, DO

In the increasingly competitive market that defines the nation’s health care system, a recent study examined how price transparency for the cost of outpatient physician office visits could potentially lower rising health care costs. The study found significant price variation Continue Reading …

CategoriesAffordability & Delivery System, Health care costs, Primary Care

Lower Readmissions for Medicare Advantage

Posted onFebruary 13, 2017February 22, 2018AuthorVidya Eswaran, MD

Reducing has been a quality measure which has recently received significant attention as a way to potentially decrease our nation’s healthcare expenditures. By improving outpatient resources and ensuring continuity of care after discharge, policymakers hope to decrease preventable readmissions. There Continue Reading …

CategoriesAccess to Care, Medicare

NHPC17

Posted onFebruary 1, 2017February 1, 2017AuthorCedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP

The Academy Health National Health Policy Conference is one of my two favorite conferences to attend every year. The other is my specialty society’s Leadership and Advocacy Conference. But the reason why I enjoy the NHPC – which is geared toward Continue Reading …

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Fourth Annual Policy Prescriptions® Symposium

Posted onFebruary 1, 2017January 27, 2017AuthorCedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP

Healthcare is a $3 trillion dollar industry with many stakeholders. One such set of stakeholders, health professionals and clinicians are often at the bedside, and not at the table during policy discussions. The 2017 Policy Prescriptions® Symposium will focus on Continue Reading …

CategoriesEducation & Events

EMRA + PolicyRx Journal Club

Posted onJanuary 28, 2017October 9, 2017AuthorEmergency Medicine Residents' Association

We’d like to announce our collaboration with the Emergency Medicine Residents Association to bring health policy literature reviews affecting the field of emergency medicine. Emergency physicians care for all members of society and as such have a unique vantage point Continue Reading …

CategoriesAffordability & Delivery System, EMRA Journal Club, Journal Club

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