Author Frequently asked questions. 531 items Posts pagination Newer 1 … 16 17 18 19 20 … 54 Older Shutting down urban hospitals of last resort September 23, 2020 By Jordan Rau and Emmarie Huetteman Kaiser Health News, September 17, 2020 While rural hospitals have been closing at a quickening pace over the past two decades, a number of inner-city hospitals now face a similar fate. And experts fear that the economic damage inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic on safety-net hospitals and the ailing […] Quote of the Day Are members of the policy community driven by beneficial policies or by ideology? September 22, 2020 By Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., and Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. The New England Journal of Medicine, September 16, 2020 Political slogans paint stark choices for health care reform: “Medicare for All” or “Free-Market Competition.” These slogans are designed to be simple and appealing — but vague enough to obscure the trade-offs involved, allowing listeners to fill in […] Quote of the Day Venture capitalists are moving into mental health September 21, 2020 By Ravi N. Shah, M.D., M.B.A.; Obianuju O. Berry, M.D., M.P.H. JAMA Psychiatry, September 16, 2020 (Online first) Mental health care is ripe for innovation. Less than a third of people with mental health disorders receive treatment, and even a smaller proportion receive adequate care. The private sector has taken notice of this economic mismatch […] Quote of the Day RAND: Private insurers overpay hospitals September 18, 2020 RAND, September 18, 2020 Prices paid to hospitals nationally during 2018 by privately insured patients averaged 247% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The study notes a steady increase in hospital prices, rising to the 2018 average level from an average […] Quote of the Day Caveat emptor: GAO finds brokers frequently sell non-compliant health plans September 17, 2020 By Jessie Hellmann The Hill, September 16, 2020 Some health insurance brokers provided misleading or false information to potential customers about whether their plans covered preexisting conditions, according to an undercover audit completed by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. The audit, requested by Senate Democrats, sought to determine whether companies selling health plans exempt from […] Quote of the Day We have another billion patients to take care of September 16, 2020 By Gene Bukhman, MD, Ana O Mocumbi, MD, Prof Rifat Atun, FRCP, Prof Anne E Becker, MD, Prof Zulfiqar Bhutta, PhD, Prof Agnes Binagwaho, PhD, et al. The Lancet, September 14, 2020 We live in an era of unprecedented global wealth. Nevertheless, about one billion people in low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) still experience levels […] Quote of the Day Let’s help cities join the Medicare for All bandwagon September 15, 2020 By Harry Saltzgaver The Grunion, September 10, 2020 Mayor Robert Garcia said Thursday, Sept. 10, he and the mayor of Oakland have created an organization to promote Medicare for All in the country as a whole. The announcement was in the form of a press release out of Garcia’s office. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff is […] Quote of the Day Unionized nursing homes have lower COVID-19 mortality rates September 14, 2020 By Adam Dean, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Simeon Kimmel Health Affairs, September 10, 2020 (Ahead of print) Abstract More than 40% of all reported coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the United States have occurred in nursing homes. As a result, health care worker access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection control policies in nursing […] Quote of the Day British Columbia rules health care access to be based on need and not ability to pay September 11, 2020 Business Wire, September 10, 2020 In today’s landmark ruling in the Cambie Surgery Centre case, Justice Steeves dealt a strong blow to the efforts of Dr. Brian Day and others to undermine Canada’s publicly-funded health care system. The decade-long legal attack launched by one of the largest for-profit surgical centres in Canada sought to invalidate […] Quote of the Day MIPS penalizes physicians who take care of vulnerable populations September 10, 2020 By Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P.; William L. Schpero, Ph.D.; Amelia M. Bond, Ph.D.; Yuting Qian, M.S.; Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D. JAMA, September 8, 2020 Key Points Question: Was there an association between patient social risk and physician performance in the first year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a major Medicare value-based payment […] Quote of the Day Posts pagination Newer 1 … 16 17 18 19 20 … 54 Older
