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
Medicare Advantage Program Reforms Within and Beyond MACRA: A Conversation with Molly Turco (August 15th)
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 CMS has been working to reform Medicare reimbursements from "fee for service" to "fee for value." (Earlier this year Secretary Burwell …
What Can Be Done About Reforming the Employer Health Insurance Tax Exclusion: A Conversation with Dr. Joe Antos (August 5th)
Excluding from taxable income the moneys employers spend in providing employees with health insurance dates back to WWII-era wage and price controls. Today, this tax policy, that amounts t…
What Does Performance Under Medicare's Value-based Modifier (VM) Program Suggest Concerning Physician Performance Under MACRA: A Conversation With Kelly Cleary (July 20th)
The 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) will sunset three current Medicare performance measurement and incentive payment programs in 2018. (This year, 2016, w…
Recent Efforts to Improve Quality Measurement: A Conversation with Dr. Helen Burstin (June 15th)
Measuring health care quality and outcomes effectively and efficiently remains a daunting task. Quality measures are largely seen as too process versus outcome focused, substantially irrel…
How CMS Proposes to Annually Update Medicare Physician Reimbursement Under MACRA: A Conversation with Mara McDermott (June 14th)
In an extremely busy year for Medicare delivery and payment reform, regulatory implementation of the 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) stands out. This past April…
Andrea LaFountain Discusses Her Recent Work: "How Patients Think: A Science-based Strategy for Patient Engagement and Population Health" (May 26th)
What accounts for so called patient compliance or adherence or why is it the case physicians and other providers are frequently unable to successfully engage their patients. Why is it the …
Daniel Dawes Discusses His Recent Book,"150 Years of Obamacare" (April 27th)
Since, in part, April is recognized by DHHS as National Minority Health Month (this year's theme is "Accelerating Health Equity in the Nation") it is thoroughly appropriate to discuss Profe…
Operational Challenges Associated with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): A Conversation with Dr. Richard Morel (April 21st)
As a follow up to my April 1st conversation with Jim Gera concerning bundled payments, during this podcast Dr. Richard Morel discusses Medicare's other major payment reform program, Account…
How Orthopedic Bundled Payments Are Being Operationalized: a Conversation with Jim Gera (April 1st)
Today, CMS launched the agency's second bundled payment demonstration, a mandatory five-year initiative in approximately 800 hospitals nation-wide. It's titled, the Comprehensive Care for …
Payment Reform, California Style: A Conversation with Dr. Jill Yegian (March 2nd)
California has been long known for health care delivery and payment reform (think, for example, Kaiser Permanente). With efforts nation-wide to better align health care quality and patien…
The Oral Health of Seniors and Medicare Coverage Thereof: A Conversation with Marko Vujicic (January 28, 2016))
The Medicare program, now in its 51st year, still does not cover oral/dental health care such as exams, X-rays, cleanings, fillings, tooth extractions and dentures. (Medicare will cover a…
Iora Health's Novel Approach to Delivering Primary Care: A Conversation with David Judge (December 23rd)
Much of the health care industry's effort to improve health care payment and delivery centers around improving primary care. This is largely because Americans suffer more disease/disease bu…
Expectations for 2016 ACA Marketplace Enrollment: A Conversation with Sabrina Corlette (December 21st)
January 1st will mark the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) third health insurance expansion year. Under the ACA individuals with income below 400% of poverty are eligible for insurance subsidie…
Will Medicare Ever Cover Telehealth & Remote Monitoring? A Conversation with Krista Drobac (November 18th)
Telehealth and remote monitoring services generally enable physicians to treat patients and monitor their health status remotely. Because of advances in wireless communication and biosenso…
The Jimmo Settlement: Its Importance and Implementation to Date: A Conversation With Margaret Murphy (November 10th)
In 2011 a 78 year old blind, amputated Vermont woman, Ms. Glenda Jimmo, was denied physical therapy services under Medicare because her condition was determined to not likely improve. Beca…
Is the Intensive Use of Herbicides on Genetically Modified Food Crops Endangering the Public's Health? A Conversation with Charles Benbrook (October 20th)
Beyond numerous other benefits derived by genetically modifying foods is herbicide resistance. This allows farmers the ability to control for weed growth without killing their crop, for exa…
Bundled Payment and CMS's Proposal To Mandate Bundled/Episodic Payment for Hip & Knee Surgery: A Conversation with Harold Miller (September 29th)
Bundled or episodic health care payment for a clinically defined medical episodes of care has been used since at least the 1980s. However, recently CMS has initiated two bundled payment d…
Medicare, Home Health and Value-Based Purchasing: A Conversation with Sherill Mason (September 23rd)
This past July CMS announced a proposed demonstration that would either reduce or increase a Medicare home health agency's reimbursement based on quality performance. With a rapidly aging…
The White House's July Conference on Aging: A Conversation with Anne Montgomery (August 18th)
This past July 13th the White House convened its sixth Conference on Aging. The meeting's purpose is to identify elder care needs over the next 10 years. More specifically the meeting is…
Tracking Implantable Medical Devices with a UDI: A Conversation with Ben Moscovitch (July 31st)
For the past eight years the federal government has been working to create a unique medical device identification (UDI) number that would identify a medical device's manufacturer, the devic…