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The Rise of Medical Tourism: An Interview with Renee-Marie Stephano (December 22nd)
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Medical tourism has been defined moreover as people traveling from less developed to more developed countries to receive medical treatment.…
11 years, 4 months ago
Housing IS Healthcare: A Conversation with Rebecca Morley (November 24th)
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Beyond the problem of an estimated 600,000 Americans being homeless each night (and 1.5 million in any given year), homelessness or unstabl…
11 years, 6 months ago
Navigating Healthcare via "The Health Care Handbook:" A Conversation with Co-Author Nathan Moore (November 19th)
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Despite signifcant press coverage over the past four and a half years many provisions of the Affordable Care Act remain largely unknown to …
11 years, 6 months ago
Factoring in Bio-Psycho-Social Factors to Improve Patient Care Outcomes: A Conversation with Gretchen Alkema (November 4th)
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While it appears obvious a person's health status is directly related to their life circumstances the health care industry has been slow to…
11 years, 7 months ago
How Relational Coordination Improves Health Care Delivery and Patient Outcomes: A Conversation with Jody Gittell (October 27th)
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Half of the US adult population suffers one or more chronic illnesses and two-thirds of the Medicare population suffers three or more. Lar…
11 years, 7 months ago
Improving Mental/Behavioral Health Services: A Conversation with Joyce Wale (October 14th)
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Despite recent efforts to improve care delivery for mental health and substance use conditions, for example, passage in 2008 of the Mental …
11 years, 7 months ago
What are "Narrow Networks and "Reference Pricing" and Do They Work?: A Conversation with Dan Mendelson (September 12th)
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Health care insurance plans and policy makers are constantly working toward improving cost management. Recently two techniques to do so ha…
11 years, 8 months ago
Medicare Fraud in Home Health: A Conversation with Sherill Mason (August 6th)
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Medicare billing fraud is pervasive. It's estimated at $50 to $60 billion annually or approximately 10% of all of Medicare spending. Whi…
11 years, 10 months ago
"Get Screened" or Surviving Prostate Cancer (the 2nd Most Deadly Cancer Among Men): A Conversation with Guido Adelfio & Howard Topel (July 24th)
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A few years ago the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored billboard ads that stating simply "this year thousands of …
11 years, 10 months ago
Policy Options to Mitigate Gilead's $1,000 Hepaitis C Pill: A Conversation with Chris Dawe (July 10th)
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Late last year Gilead Sciences received FDA approval for its Hepatitis C drug Solvaldi. Hepatitis C (Hep C) affects three to four million…
11 years, 10 months ago