At the start of the pandemic–to maintain access while limiting in-person contact–states introduced waivers to support the use of telemedicine, including measures to relax licensure rules and let physicians and other practitioners provide care across state lines.
The study, by LDI Executive Director Rachel M. Werner, LDI Research Director Norma B. Coe, Seiyoun Kim, and R. Tamara Konetzka, published in the American Journal of Health Economics, examined data on over 2 million Medicare beneficiaries who had knee or hip replacements, among the most common surgeries. They found that the switch to bundled payments caused a 9% to 15% increase in the need for additional help with daily tasks after paid home health services ended.
On January 5, the FDA approved (with conditions) a request from Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.-Fla.) to import prescription drugs from Canada, making Florida the first state ever given authority to import prescription drugs from another country. The Florida Medicaid program is likely hard at work now devising a plan to source large quantities of drugs from Canada, where unit prices are often small fractions of the U.S. list price.
美国每年都有数百名妇女死于与怀孕和分娩有关的并发症——新型冠状病毒感染病加剧了这一危机。卫生与公众服务部正在努力解决这场危机，实现长期目标，如增加妇女获得高质量孕产妇护理的机会
In that short visit, Amber’s life changed.
While the policy community has embraced integrated care, evidence on the benefits of integrated care plans has been elusive. To examine whether there is a benefit, LDI Senior Fellow Eric Roberts recently examined the effects of enrolling in an integrated plan in a study published in JAMA Health Forum. Roberts and coauthors’ findings were not conclusive. They found that enrollment in an integrated plan was associated with increased use of home and community-based services when compared to a comparison group, but did not find any association with changes in care management and coordination, medication use for chronic conditions, hospital stays, or follow-up outpatient care after a hospital stay. Roberts discussed the study further in a series of questions below.
“When you’re talking about AI and machine learning (ML) in health care, there are a great many challenges and potential unintended consequences,” explained LDI Senior Fellow Hamsa Bastani, PhD, a Co-Director of the new Wharton data initiative focused on health care delivery systems.
这份证词讨论了我们长期以来对美国食品药品监督管理局监督全球药品供应链的担忧，这是自2009年以来我们的高风险名单上的一个问题。供应美国市场的药品制造商中，50%以上在海外
McCoy, an Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, explained that while HIPAA provides robust protections for health information generated during clinical encounters, consumer data collection systems now gather information on purchases, social media use, website visits and myriad other sources that can be collated in ways that are very revealing about an individual’s or a family’s health.
