Browsing: Health Policy

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Health Policy , Health Policy Journal Club

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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Health Policy

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 , Health Policy Journal Club

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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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy

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
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Health Policy Journal Club , Medications , Health Policy , Regulatory

Health Policy Journal Club: The Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

11/6/2017 Brandon Roe, DO
Health Policy Journal Club: The Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic Mandating use of prescription drug monitoring programs cuts opioids by up to 10% Opioid prescriptions in the United States have been
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Health Policy Journal Club , Legislation

Health Policy Journal Club: ED Visits Rise After Medicaid Expansion

10/6/2017 RJ Sontag, MD
Health Policy Journal Club: ED Visits Rise After Medicaid Expansion October 2017 More insured Americans under ACA results in more emergency department visits Does having health insurance make people
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Leadership Reports , President's Message , Health Policy

Gracias. Merci. Danke schön. Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto!

10/3/2017 Alicia Kurtz, MD
Gracias. Merci. Danke schön. Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto! Random question: How many ways can you think of to say thank you? Seriously. Even if you're not multilingual, I'm sure you know the phrase
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Health Policy , Advocacy

Bait and Switch: Troubling Developments in Emergency Care Coverage

10/3/2017 Rachel Solnick, MD
Bait and Switch: Troubling Developments in Emergency Care Coverage Anthem, the nation's second largest insurer, has adopted a policy under which emergency department (ED) visits could be denied cover
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Health Policy Journal Club

Health Policy Journal Club: Sharing Is Caring

9/6/2017 Louis Yu, MD, MA
Health Policy Journal Club: Sharing Is Caring Interconnected systems for information exchange might improve care and cut costs In 2009 Congress passed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, whic
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Legislation , Health Policy

Affordable Care Act vs. American Health Care Act

8/9/2017 Nathan Vafaie, MD
Affordable Care Act vs. American Health Care Act A Comparison of Central Principles The elections of November 2016, which left the Republican Party in control of Congress and the Executive Branch, ha

#FOAMed and External Sources

Is 3.3% Really the Avoidable Number?

Emergency Medicine Literature of Note 08/31/2017

Policy Playbook: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) changes

emDOCs.net – Emergency Medicine Education 01/10/2023

Dr. Aisha Liferidge Talks Health Policy and Public Health

EMRA*Cast 12/08/2016

Policy Playbook: Firearm Injury Prevention from the Bedside

emDOCs.net – Emergency Medicine Education 02/15/2023
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