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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

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

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

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

Health Policy

All About the Benjamins: What You Must Know About MACRA

6/6/2017 Christopher Parks, MD

All About the Benjamins: What You Must Know About MACRA MACRA is going to bring about change whether providers are ready for it or not. The process in which health care providers and hospitals are re

Affordable Care Act , Health Policy

What You Need to Know About the AHCA

5/10/2017 Rachel Solnick, MD

What You Need to Know About the AHCA The U.S. House of Representatives on May 4 narrowly passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), HR 1628, after tabling the bill in March following a lack of party

Affordable Care Act , Health Policy , Advocacy , Health Policy Journal Club

ACA Increased Emergency Department Use

5/6/2017 Eric Maughan, MD

ACA Increased Emergency Department Use Increasing access to insurance alone does not lead to a decrease in ED visits As the Affordable Care Act was being implemented, many politicians and health po

Health Policy Journal Club

Health Policy Journal Club: Access to Specialists Worse with Medicaid

4/5/2017 Vidya Eswaran, MD

Health Policy Journal Club: Access to Specialists Worse with Medicaid Orthopedic appointment availability 5 times higher for uninsured than for Medicaid Increase outpatient services and thereby decre

Legislation , Recreational Drugs , Health Policy

Weeding through the Effects of Marijuana Legalization

4/1/2017 Patrick Wallace, DO

Weeding through the Effects of Marijuana Legalization Legalization of marijuana has become a heated topic in the United States as 8 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized it for recreational use

President's Message , Advocacy

Caring for All in a Divided Society

4/1/2017 Alicia Kurtz, MD

Caring for All in a Divided Society If you're anything like me, the latest news headlines have left a part of you feeling uneasy. Whether you're conservative or liberal leaning, it seems safe to say

Browsing: Health Policy

How Has the ACA Affected the Emergency Department?

Find Your Voice!

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

Everyone Else Ends Up Paying the Price

All About the Benjamins: What You Must Know About MACRA

What You Need to Know About the AHCA

ACA Increased Emergency Department Use

Health Policy Journal Club: Access to Specialists Worse with Medicaid

Weeding through the Effects of Marijuana Legalization

Caring for All in a Divided Society

#FOAMed and External Sources

Is 3.3% Really the Avoidable Number?

Policy Playbook: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) changes

Dr. Aisha Liferidge Talks Health Policy and Public Health

Policy Playbook: Firearm Injury Prevention from the Bedside

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