Browsing: Health Policy

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Health Policy Journal Club: Myths About ED Overuse By The Uninsured

8/6/2018 Jennifer Nath, JD, MS
Uninsured patients use the ED as often as the insured yet use other care much less.
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Health Policy Journal Club , Affordable Care Act , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: The Emergency Department Role Is Critical

7/6/2018 Elizabeth Sherrill, MD
How much does the emergency department contribute to health care delivery in the United States? Do our policies reflect the ED’s current role?
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Health Policy Journal Club: Keeping It in the Community

6/4/2018 Hannah Moreira, MD, MPH
Can community health workers help cut down on ED "super-user" visits and lead to sustainable cost savings?
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Health Policy Journal Club: The Unintended Consequences of Saving Lives

5/6/2018 Eric Maughan, MD
In some cases, an intervention that saves lives also becomes a "moral hazard" that leads to risky behavior. Are we seeing this effect with naloxone?
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Health Policy Journal Club: If You Build It, They Will Check In

4/4/2018 Kyle Delbar, MD
The Health Policy Journal Club points out a Jevons paradox occurring in response to the increase in freestanding emergency department.
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Health Policy Journal Club: Nobody Likes Surprises

3/4/2018 Cameron J Gettel, MD
Good news! There are fewer surprise bills now than a decade ago. A surprise medical bill is one a patient receives from an out-of-network provider after seeking care at a facility considered "in-netw
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Health Policy Journal Club: 30 Million Outside the “Golden Hour”

2/6/2018 Louis Yu, MD, MA
Health Policy Journal Club: 30 Million Outside the “Golden Hour” Certain communities appear cut off from the nation’s best trauma care. In the U.S., cohesive trauma systems began to coalesce in the 1
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Tax Ills, Market Stabilization, and CHIP: What You Need to Know About the Tax Bill

1/31/2018 Rachel Solnick, MD
Tax Ills, Market Stabilization, and CHIP: What You Need to Know About the Tax Bill Smiling with uncharacteristically good spirits for someone who has been living in the ICU for the past couple of mon
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Health Policy Journal Club: Is There Benefit to HIE in the ED?

1/6/2018 Erica Goldstein
Health Policy Journal Club: Is There Benefit to HIE in the ED? Health information exchange (HIE) has the potential to save utilization and cut costs Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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How Much Should Health Care Cost?

12/6/2017 Erica Goldstein
How Much Should Health Care Cost? There is no standard for how much insurers should pay for physician services There is no standard for how much health care services should cost nationally, so it is