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Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they need.
Guests:
Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jean Minkel, PT, ATP, Senior Vice President of Rehab and Mobility Services, Independence Care System
Rochelle Render, advocate and mother of Saleema Render-Hornsby
Saleema Render-Hornsby, dually eligible person
Allison Rizer, Principal, ATI Advisory
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and Latina girls get left behind?
Guests:
Monica Bhatt, PhD, Senior Research Director, University of Chicago Education Lab
Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD, Professor, Washington University
Kathleen Ethier, PhD, Director, CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health
Ngozi Harris, LCPC, Working on Womanhood Director of Program and Staff Development, Youth Guidance
Shekinah Jackson, Working on Womanhood Participant
Nora-Lisa Malloy, Working on Womanhood Counselor, Youth Guidance
Heidi Sipe, EdS, Superintendent, Umatilla School District (OR)
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating between making the rounds on hospital patients and reading up on the latest health policy research for the Tradeoffs newsletter.
Guest:
Soleil Shah, MD, MSc, Research Reporter, Tradeoffs; Resident Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Nearly two decades ago, Dr. Jeff Brenner hypothesized that nurses and social workers could guide the country's most complicated patients toward better health ... and cut expensive hospital admissions along the way. Was he right?
Jeff Brenner, Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers
Amy Finkelstein, Economist, MIT
Kathleen Noonan, Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers
Allison Hamblin, Center for Health Care Strategies
Jensen Skinner, Nurse, Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers
Larry Moore, Patient
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About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, access and inequity issues.
This week, we look at a federal experiment revamping Medicare's hospice policy, and how it could ultimately change the way millions of people die.
Guests:
Vince Mor, PhD, Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University
Bethany Snider, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Hosparus Health
David Stevenson, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer, Tradeoffs
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People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to solidly red Utah think bringing Medicaid behind bars could help.
Guests:
Lee Reed
Shira Shavit, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco; Executive Director, Transitions Clinic Network
Jacey Cooper, Director, California Medicaid Program
Cindy Beane, MSW, LCSW, Commissioner, West Virginia Bureau of Medical Services
Amy Katzen, JD, MPP, Director of Policy and Strategy, Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Mike Levine, Medicaid Director, MassHealth
Dana Flannery, Former Senior Policy Advisor, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Khalil Cumberbatch, MSW, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Council on Criminal Justice
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One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive way - by holding hospitals and insurance companies accountable for high spending. In this episode we look to see if any of those efforts have bent the cost curve.
Guests:
Leemore Dafny, PhD, Harvard University economist
Michael Bailit, MBA President and Founder Bailit Health
David Seltz, Executive Director Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
Amy Rosenthal, MPH, MPA Executive Director Health Care For All
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Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from maternal mortality to life expectancy. What if improving health literacy and demystifying health information could be the part of the solution?
This week, one doctor’s crusade to help more people understand their own health care and why insurers are starting to buy in.
Guests:
Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA, Founder and CEO, Grapevine Health
Keith Maccannon, Director of Marketing, Outreach and Community Relations, AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia
Yvonne Smith, Grapevine Client
Karen Dale, RN, MSN, Market President, AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia
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The Inflation Reduction Act gave Medicare historic new power to directly negotiate the prices of some of the costliest prescription drugs. Now the federal agency must grapple with a difficult question: What makes a drug price fair?
This week, we explain how this negotiation process will work and the impact it could have.
Guests:
Anton Avanceña, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Outcomes, University of Texas
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Public Policy, University of Southern California
Lauren Neves, JD, Deputy Vice President, PhRMA
Steve Pearson, MD, MSc, Founder and President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)
Ben Rome, MD, MPH, physician and researcher, Harvard Medical School
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response. Now, he’s back in the world of studies and scholarship leading Brown University's School of Public Health. This week, what he learned from his time in Washington.
Guest:
Ashish Jha, Dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health and former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator
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