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 [...]
Check out the upcoming events at GMU The Department of Social Work presents : “Resilience and Advocacy: Applications to Social Work Policy and Practice” A Panel Discussion to Celebrate Social Work Month Date: Wednesday March 27, 2013 Time: 1:30pm to 3:30pm Location: Mason Hall Room D23 Edwin Meese III Conference Room, Fairfax Campus Panelists: Nannette Bowler,- [...]
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 [...]
Join the Department of Health Administration and Policy and the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, for the first Spring Semester Seminar of our HAP-CHPRE Seminar Series. This months speaker is the Director of Evaluations at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Please click here to view the flyer: Meaningful Use of Electronic [...]
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 [...]
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