Browsing: Health Policy

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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
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Health Policy , Affordable Care Act

How Has the ACA Affected the Emergency Department?

7/18/2017 Chichen Qiu, MD
How Has the ACA Affected the Emergency Department? The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010 under the Obama administration, sought to increase availability of health care to Americans, especiall
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Course , Advocacy

Find Your Voice!

7/18/2017 Matthew Kwon, MD
Find Your Voice! A free trip to Washington D.C.? Sign me up! As a fourth-year medical student who had recently matched into an emergency medicine residency, I thought this non-medical course was a ch
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Health Policy Journal Club

Health Policy Journal Club: Striking a Balance Between Access and Cost

7/6/2017 Nathan Vafaie, MD
Health Policy Journal Club: Striking a Balance Between Access and Cost Freestanding emergency departments offer risks and rewards to our health care system. In the 1970s, the freestanding emergency d
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Health Policy Journal Club

Everyone Else Ends Up Paying the Price

6/6/2017 Elizabeth Sherrill, MD
Everyone Else Ends Up Paying the Price Every 1% increase in uninsured leads to a $20 increase in ER bills for privately insured. "When someone without health coverage gets urgent—often expensive—medi