The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso
Health care experts' podcasts on timely health policy topics.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 319
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Dr. Tim Williams Discusses the Use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in the United Kingdom: May 8th
Healthcare payment models have been increasingly evolving to include quality performance in determining reimbursement. For example, the Medicare program, including Medicare Advantage, is t…
Kip Sullivan Discusses the Flaws and Future of the Medicare ACO Program (April 17th)
The Medicare Shared Savings Program's Accountable Care Organization (ACOs), created by Section 3022 of the 2010 Affordable Care Act constitutes the flagship Medicare pay for performance (P4…
Pediatrician Dr. Niran Al-Agba Discusses Gun Violence (Via In Part Her Columbine Experience) (April 12th)
Including the February 14th shooting at Marjory Stoneman HS in Parkland Florida that killed seventeen students and teachers, there have now been over 130 shootings in elementary, middle and…
The Reverend Patricia Lyons Discusses the Administration's Proposed Protection of Religious Beliefs and Moral Convictions Rule: March 26th
In January the Trump administration published a proposed DHHS rule titled, "Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care, Delegations of Authority." For decades the federal govern…
Author Timothy Hoff Discusses His Latest Work: "Next In Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail - and Value Based Health" (March 14th)
During this 29-minute interview, Professor Timothy Hoff discusses moreover what market factors explain or are driving the degradation of the therapeutic relationship between the physician a…
Author Jonathan Engel Discusses His Recent Work, "Unaffordable: American Healthcare From Johnson to Trump" (March 9th)
During this 30-minute interview Professor Engel discusses moreover why, as he notes, US healthcare is "uniquely dysfunctional," and "laden with profit taking" largely due to induced demand,…
Unpacking BPCI, CMS' New Bundled Payment Demonstration: An Interview with Dave Terry (February 28th)
This past January 9th CMS announced Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced. This five-year Medicare bundled or episode-based payment demonstration, that begins this October 1…
The Trump Administration's Decision to Require Employment as a Medicaid Coverage Prerequisite: An Interview with Prof. Sara Rosenbaum (February 21st)
In a letter last March to state Medicaid directors by then DHHS Secretary Tom Price and CMS Administrator Seema Verma telegraph the administration's intent to radically redefine the Medicai…
Misuse of Antipsychotics Continues to Harm and Kill Thousands of Nursing Facility Residents: An Interview With Ms. Hannah Flamm (February 15th)
In early February the Human Rights Watch (HRW) published, "'They Want Docile': How Nursing Homes in the US Over-medicate People with Dementia." The inappropriate or misuse of antipsychotic…
Mitigating the Opioid Crisis Via Abuse Deterrent Prescribing Practices: An Interview with Dr. Steven Passik (February 9th)
Fatalities related opioid use now account for over two-thirds of all drug overdoses annually, over 60,000, in the US. Approximately 115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. Th…
Will Trump's Global Gag Rule Lead to More Abortions and Maternal Deaths: An Interview with Jonathan Rucks (January 29th)
A year ago last week the President Trump signed an executive order reinstituting the so called global gag rule (more formally termed the Mexico City policy). The policy was first implement…
Kristen O'Brien Discusses the Final 2018 MACRA Rule (December 18th)
This past November 16 CMS published the agency's final 2018 MACRA (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act) rule (at 661 federal register pages). MACRA, authorized in 2015, formulates…
Clay Richards Discusses Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Demonstration (December 11th)
CMS has been experimenting with Medicare bundled payment arrangements, where the provider is reimbursed a total fee (either prospectively or reconciled retrospectively), for three decades. …
Myra Christopher Discusses Under Treated Chronic Pain and the PAINS Project (December 6th)
Despite the fact an estimated 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain costing approximately $640 billion annually in medical expenses and lost productivity, the disease remains widel…
Dr. Jim Rickards Discusses His Recent Work, "Our Health Plan, Community Governed Healthcare That Works" (November 16th)
This, my 125th interview, will discuss Oregon's Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) that have received considerable attention nation-wide for their ability to provide Medicaid beneficiari…
Dr. Ronald Epstein Discusses His Recent Work, "Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness and Humanity" (November 9th)
Over the past 20 years Dr. Ronald Epstein has published on the topic he terms "mindful practice." "Mindful practice," he argues, enables physicians and other clinicians to have heightened …
Patient Safety Issues Associated with Electronic Health Records: A Conversation with Dr. David Troxel (October 31st)
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were largely adopted after 2009, or after the Congress passed the HITECH Act that appropriated $30 billion in financial incentives for hospital and physicia…
Eric Weinberg Discusses His Recent Work, "Blood On Their Hands" (September 28th)
Mr. Eric Weinberg is co-author with College of New Jersey Journalism Professor, Donna Shaw, of the recently published work, Blood On Their Hands, How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, a…
Dr. Haider Warraich Discusses His Recent Work, "Modern Death" (September 27th)
Earlier this year St. Martin's Press published Dr. Haider Warraich's Modern Death, How Medicine Changed the End of Life. As the dust jacket notes, "the mechanics and understanding" of dying…
The National Academy of Medicine's "Effective Care for High-Need Patients," A Conversation with Melinda Abrams (August 14th)
Recently the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (formerly the Institute of Medicine) released it's "Effective Care for High-Need Patients, Opportunities for Improving Outcomes, Value and He…