Health Insurance Benefits – What To Look for When Selecting A Health Plan

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The health insurance market is changing and understanding what to ask for when navigating different health plans can facilitate the process. I’ve outlined a few basic benefits, optional benefits, and other services that you should look into in order to … Continue reading →

What the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act Means to Wisconsin

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It comes as no surprise that with Romney’s pick of Paul Ryan as his VP running mate – the people of Wisconsin are energized more than ever to understand this new healthcare law. The act, dubbed by some as “Obamacare”, … Continue reading →

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – School Health Policies and Practices Study (SHPPS)

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I’ve always had a passion for mitigating the health inequities of priority populations in  underserved communities. Like most health providers, I’ve found it difficult to simply draw a quick baseline health sample of a state, district, school and/or classroom across … Continue reading →

Learning Hospital Environments and Group Health

The notion of patient centered medical homes, learning health environments, hospital analytics and delivery of research (or evidence) based deliver of care aren’t new concepts by any means. Yet, with the extended emergency room waiting periods, brief patient-doctor face time … Continue reading →

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Resources

For those of you interested in a play by play breakdown of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act – UCLA breaks it down brilliantly. I will be posting sectional analysis shortly but thought this would be a wonderful resource for … Continue reading →

Philippines & The Need for Culturally Sensitive Health Policies

Philippines needs a reproductive health policy: U.N. “(Reuters) – The Philippines, where an average of 11 women a day die giving birth, could lower its high maternal death rate by having a reproductive health policy, a visiting United Nations delegation … Continue reading →

Nigeria utilizes the power of health policy to curb the transfusion of communicable diseases…

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Nigeria: Health Minister Orders Discontinuation of Conventional Syringes in Hospitals

Learning the Basics of Health Information Technology (HIT)

I thought I’d share this great resource for you all to gain a basic understanding of the healthcare information technologies re-shaping our disparate healthcare system into a more integrated and interoperable network of care… HealthIT.gov (Basics of Health IT)

AETNA CEO Pays Health Bill for 30 Year Old Cancer Patient

Originally posted on Help Find Ariana-Leilani King-Pfeiffer:
Arijit Guha, a graduate student, learned he had Stage IV colon cancer.  He then learned that his insurance company would place restrictions on paying for his cancertreatments was almost as gut-wrenching.  Guha had a policy  for…

Impact of Medicaid on jobs

Originally posted on Don Taylor's RECKONING BLOG:
A paper in the August 2012 issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy finds: In our preferred specification, a state’s receipt of a marginal $100,000 in Medicaid outlays results in an…