The 21st Washington Health Policy Institute Registration is now open! If you want a true insiders’ view of what health care policy is about, how it is made, and who makes it, you should not miss the Washington Health Policy Institute (WHPI). Students have the unique experience to learn from top Health [...]
Mason Selected to Evaluate CareFirst Medical Home Program Posted: March 10, 2013 at 5:00 am, Last Updated: March 12, 2013 at 12:03 pm By Michele McDonald George Mason University is part of an elite group to evaluate CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program, one of the largest in the nation, CareFirst announced on [...]
Contingency management (CM) is a behavioral therapy intervention in which patients receive tangible reinforcers for evidence of positive behavior change. In a meta-analysis of interventions for substance use disorders (SUDs), CM had the largest effect size of all psychosocial treatments. Despite its strong evidence base, CM has not been widely adopted largely because it adds [...]
States take practical path on exchanges When the Affordable Care Act was debated in Congress, the House of Representatives wanted one federal exchange and as much federal control of state insurance markets as possible. The Senate wanted state insurance exchanges and state flexibility to tailor market rules to local market conditions. You can read the [...]
On Tuesday January 29, 2013, Len M. Nichols spoke as part of a panel for the Policy Summit, hosted by the National Journal Live and held at the Newseum. The purpose of the policy summit was to bring together “ leading thinkers in the healthcare space—including physicians, healthcare executives, congressional staff experts, and other key [...]
This months Health Affairs Issues focuses almost solely on transforming care delivery. Beginning with an assessment of primary care shortages, taking the current ratio’s and blowing them up on a grander scale, concluding that primary care shortages may be a thing of the past due to nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, and electronic communications. The issue continues, tackling [...]
Government Intervention in Health Care Markets Is Practical, Necessary, and Morally Sound This essay makes the affirmative case for health reform by expounding on three fundamental points: (1) one moral case for expanding access to coverage and care to all is grounded in scriptural concepts of community and mutual obligation which continue to inform [...]
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