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Scoring the Senate Healthcare Bill: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Nathan Bays
June 26th 2017Shortly before the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score for the Senate healthcare bill, Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, and Nathan Bays, managing director at Cain Brothers, a healthcare investment bank, and policy advisor to The Health Management Academy, discussed how the Senate bill stands up to the House bill and speculation about how the CBO might score the bill.
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Combating the Opioid Epidemic With Data Analytics: Mandi Bishop Interviews Dr Michael Petersen
June 23rd 2017Michael Petersen, MD, of Accenture Health, discusses the opioid epidemic and how data analytics can be used to break down the silos in healthcare to better care for people addicted to opioids and to prevent further spread of the epidemic.
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Impact of Money on Care: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Dr Veena Shankaran
May 25th 2017Earlier this year, Veena Shankaran, MD, MS, associate professor at the University of Washington, had a winning case study for the PAN Foundation's annual PAN Challenge. The case study outlined an education program created to improve patient financial literacy and help connect patients to funding organizations.
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Health Plans and Healthcare Transformation: Mandi Bishop Interviews Dr Richard A. Bankowitz
May 14th 2017Richard A. Bankowitz, MD, MBA, FACP, executive vice president for clinical affairs at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) always had an affinity for data and early on in his career had an interest in using a data-driven approach to improve quality in healthcare. Throughout his career he has been dedicated to looking at safe and effective care and delivering affordable care.
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Medicare Part B Nightmare: Mandi Bishop Interviews Two Medicare-Eligible Individuals
April 25th 2017Medicare Part A is an automatic entitlement that older Americans start receiving when they begin receiving their Social Security check, but the other parts of Medicare can be more difficult to enroll in. Mandi Bishop, CEO of Aloha Knows, interviewed 2 intelligent individuals who went through a 5-month process to get a mistake fixed for enrollment in Medicare Part B.
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Creating a Value-Based Formulary: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Dr Kai Yeung
April 18th 2017During this year's Patient Access Network Foundation Challenge, research submitted by Kai Yeung, PharmD, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, was chosen as the paper winner. The main topic of the challenge this year had been Sustainable Strategies for Providing Access to Critical Medications.
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Health Technology and Data Security: Mandi Bishop Interviews Darin Brannan
April 9th 2017Darin Brannan, CEO, president, and co-founder of ClearDATA, may have extensive experience in Silicon Valley, but he came from a family of physicians who wanted to bring new technology into the industry to drive efficiency and prevent accidental medical errors and deaths.
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The GOP's Vision for Healthcare: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Nathan Bays
March 7th 2017Just hours before House Republicans released their long-awaited Affordable Care Act replacement bill, Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, and Nathan Bays, general counsel and executive director at the Health Management Academy, discussed what was expected to be included in the final bill and mostly accurately predicted the main provisions of the new bill.
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Podcast: Tackling the Opioid Epidemic With a Public Health Approach
March 6th 2017The widespread nature of the opioid epidemic will require coordination from a variety of stakeholders and all levels of government. In this podcast, experts discuss how the crisis got so out of hand, various tactics being undertaken to reverse the opioid, and the current impact of stigma on getting treatment.
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