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The Re-emergence of Community Health Workers & Peer Support: A Conversation with Ed Fisher (June 15th)
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The use of community health workers (CHW) dates back to the 1800s. The impetus for these workers today is to provide peer support largely …
10 years, 11 months ago
Potential Republican Party Responses to King v. Burwell: A Conversation With Tevi Troy (May 28th)
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Shortly before the Supreme Court recesses in early July the Court will rule on David King v. Sylvia Burwell, the case where the plaintiffs …
11 years ago
What Is Risk Adjustment and How Is It Accomplished Under MA: A Conversation with Robert Book (May 13th)
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Risk adjustment is a statistical method by which payers can reasonably predict how much a patient's care needs are expected to cost in any …
11 years ago
Mt. Sinai's Hospital At Home Demonstration: A Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Farber (May 7th)
Beyond hospital care's considerable expense and at times questionable quality, it can be often times unnecessary. We spend over $900 billion, or one…
11 years ago
The State of Alzheimer's Funding and Research: A Conversation with Robert Egge (April 30th)
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Alzheimer's Disease accounts for approximately 70% of all dementia diagnoses. The disease affects over five million Americans or upwards o…
11 years, 1 month ago
Care Provided by Visiting Nurses: A Conversation with Tracey Moorhead (April 20th)
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Visiting nurse services have been delivering home-based health care since the late 19th century providing everything from maternal and chil…
11 years, 1 month ago
Street Sense's Effort to End Homelessness in DC: A Conversation with Brian Carome (April 14th)
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Street Sense is a tabloid newspaper that has been sold biweekly by the District of Columbia's homeless residents for the past 12 years. Th…
11 years, 1 month ago
What's the Status of "Pay for Value" Contracting: A Conversation with David Muhlestein (March 18th)
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Health care payment is solidly moving, or moving once again, toward pay for value or value-based contracting. This means a health care pro…
11 years, 2 months ago
What Health Care Coverage Do Immigrants Get?: A Conversation with Angel Padilla (February 19th)
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Over 20 million immigrants live in the US, approximately half of whom, or 11 million, are undocumented. Because immigrants are frequently …
11 years, 3 months ago
CareConnect, New York's First Commercial Provider-Owned Health Plan: A Conversation with Alan Murray (February 10th)
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Over the past few years the lines between health care payers and health care providers have been blurring. Some say these health care indu…
11 years, 3 months ago