Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Reducing Never Events is no Easy Task
The Hospital-Acquired Condition—Present on Admission (HAC-POA) program of 2008 was one of the first federal initiatives to reduce hospital payments on the basis of adverse events. It prevents hospitals from being reimbursed by Medicare for the treatment of certain hospital-acquired Continue Reading …
How 19 Republican-Led States Trap People in Poverty
People with disabilities make up approximately 20% of the U.S. population and are subject to significant employment, income, housing, and health disparities. Many disabled Americans have health insurance through Medicaid as their disability qualifies them for the program. Historically, strict Continue Reading …
Who’s Going to Foot the Bill
A recent study explores the impact of rising health insurance costs on the phenomenon of “split coverage,” a practice in which working poor families opt to cover their children via public insurance, even though employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) is available, in Continue Reading …
Public Health Opportunities for Physicians
http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/media/aaem-epa-podcast-episode-28.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physician Advocates: Legal and Policy Issues in Emergency Medicine podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2017
In the past year, liberal health reformers have seen a backlash against their health reform policies. Single payer reforms failed in Vermont and Colorado. And tales of proposed 25% rate increases in the Affordable Care Act (AMA) Marketplaces may have Continue Reading …
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