Archive | September, 2010
PPACA Puzzle Pieces: Doctors John Geyman, Joshua Freeman Analyze 2010′s Health Legislation at 22nd National Conference
The last period in which federal legislation dealt comprehensively with the American health care system was in mid-1960s. Now, nearly four and a half decades after the passage of Medicare and Medicaid, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has been enacted, which is significantly more comprehensive that Medicare or Medicaid and has proved [...]
Continue reading...Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Dr David Sundwall is Vice Chair of Federal Panel on Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access
12. September 2010
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) is assigned the function of appointing the members of several key committees with responsibility for advising Congress on the federal health reform legislation passed in 2010. The GAO also appoints members to certain other advisory bodies that were in place before the 2010 legislation was enacted. Last year, the Children’s [...]
Continue reading...Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Dr Marc Babitz Appointed to Federal Committee to Review MUA, HPSA Criteria
10. September 2010
Marc Babitz, MD, a senior fellow of the Coastal Research Group, has been appointed to a 24-member federal committee that will review and update the criteria used to define health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) and medically underserved areas (MUAs). The two types of federal designation, created respectively by the 1970 federal legislation that established the National [...]
Continue reading...The Background of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access
3. September 2010
Development In 1990, a group of persons interested in family and community medicine, medical school reform, and advocacy for rural, inner city and other geographical areas of need, were invited to rural Wisconsin for the First National Conference on Primary Health Care Access. Since then, similar groups have been invited to assemble each Spring. Over [...]
Continue reading...Medicaid Support for Graduate Medical Education: Policy Implications for Primary Care Training
2. September 2010
[The following policy paper is from Tim Henderson, MSPH, MAMC, a fellow of the Coastal Research Group, from George Mason University. Mr Henderson recently completed a study on the Medicaid financing of medical education for the Association of American Medical Colleges (referenced in the footnotes below).] Tim M. Henderson, MSPH, MAMC Department of Health Administration [...]
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14. September 2010
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