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
"Get Screened" or Surviving Prostate Cancer (the 2nd Most Deadly Cancer Among Men): A Conversation with Guido Adelfio & Howard Topel (July 24th)
A few years ago the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored billboard ads that stating simply "this year thousands of men will die from stubbornness." The message was …
Policy Options to Mitigate Gilead's $1,000 Hepaitis C Pill: A Conversation with Chris Dawe (July 10th)
Late last year Gilead Sciences received FDA approval for its Hepatitis C drug Solvaldi. Hepatitis C (Hep C) affects three to four million Americans and can have serious health consequence…
A Republican Alternative to the Affordable Care Act: A Conversation with James Capretta (June 27th)
As is well known Congressional Republicans have vehemently opposed the Affordable Care Act (the ACA or Obamacare). House Republicans, for example, have voted an estimated 50 times to replac…
How Can We Improve Primary Care: A Conversation with Ann O'Malley (June 10th)
Primary care is considered the bedrock of healthcare delivery. Primary care services promotes wellness, prevents disease onset, progression, exacerbation and premature death and moderates…
Vermont's Move to Single Payer, Universal Health Care: A Conversation with Joshua Slen (May 29th)
In May 2011 Vermont passed legislation signed by Governor Peter Shumlin creating a single-payer, publicly financed, universal health care system termed Green Mountain Care. The law recogni…
Enrollment Results Under the Affordable Care Act: A Conversation with Brian Webb (May 15th)
The ACA's open enrollment period ended this past March 31st. Over eight million Americans signed up for health care insurance. Of these 2.2 million, or 28 percent, were young adults or be…
The FDA's Proposal to Regulate E-Cigarettes: A Conversation with David Abrams (May 5th)
This past April 24th the FDA announced a proposed rule to regulate e-cigarettes. The FDA is, in part, proposing to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, require manufacturers to disclose…
ACA and Innovation: Mary's Center's Efforts to Improve Population Health: A Conversation with Gina Pistulka (April 28th)
The 2010 Affordable Care Act created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS with $10 billion in funding to test innovation and service delivery models to improve health care…
The Work Community Health Centers Have Been Doing With ACA Funding: A Conversation with Michelle Proser (April 10th)
Since the 1960s Community Health Centers (CHCs) have been providing health care services to moreover minority populations, the poor and the uninsured. Today there are approximately 1,200 h…
All "RUC'ed" Up or The Problems With How Physician Reimbursement is Determined: A Conversation with Kavita Patel (April 7th)
Since 1992 use of the RBRVS (Resource Based Relative Value Scale) has been the prevailing method by which physician procedure prices are determined. The method or formula for determining p…
What Is "Dead Peasant's" Insurance: A Conversation with Peter Kochenberger (March 20th)
Corporate Owned Life Insurance are life insurance policies corporations buy on their employees whereby the corporation is the named beneficiary. This practice, at least initially, was ado…
Concierge Medicine Helps Physicians But at What Costs to the Patient: A Conversation with Casey Schwarz (March 5th)
Concierge medicine (also termed membership medicine, direct pay or cash only practice) has become a rapidly-growing care model moreover among primary care physicians. In concept, physician…
Primary Care Medical Homes, What Are They and Are They Working: A Conversation with Marci Nielsen (February 19th)
The term "medical home" was first introduced in the 1960s by the pediatric profession. Still to date this model of care emphasizes team-based comprehensive, continuous and coordinated care…
The Debate Over ACA-Mandated Contraceptive Coverage: A Conversation with Adam Sonfield (February 11th)
In late January in a case involving a Catholic charity, the US Supreme Court issuesd a ruling temporarily exempting religious-affiliated non-profits from providing ACA-required contraceptiv…
What's Being Done in the Clinical Practice Setting to Reduce the Spread of Infection: A Conversation with Anthony Harris (January 23rd)
(This podcast is a companion to the November 13th interview with Infectious Diseases Society of America's Amanda Jezek.)
As previously noted, conservative estimates show hospital-acquired …
Will An Emergency Room Really Treat Everyone Regardless of Their Ability to Pay?: A Conversation with Sara Rosenbaum (January 16, 2014)
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) was passed in 1986 under the Reagan administration to help prevent patient dumping. The law requires hospitals to provide emergency …
Life (and Death) as a Hospice Physician: A Conversation with Bruce Doblin (December 20th)
Of the two and a half million Americans that die annually, less than half, or 45%, die under hospice care. About one-third of these deaths are cancer related the remainder are moreover from…
The Mind-Body-Heart Connection in Health and Evidence for Meditation: A Conversation with Robert Schneider (December 18th)
Transcendental Meditation (TM) has long been studied as an approach to improving health status generally and lowering blood pressure specifically. For example, the American Heart Associat…
Declining Heart Rate Variability as a Predictor of the Onset of Disease: A Conversation with James Palmer (December 12th)
Human physiology or biological functioning exhibits fractal or irregular patterns. When heart rate, (or respiration rate, blood pressure, brain waves and even walking stride length) begins…
Will The 100,000 (& counting) Mobile Medical Applications Improve Health Care?: A Conversation with Janet Marchibroda (November 26th)
According to Information Week there are now approximately 100,000 mobile medical applications (double the number from last year) and the market for these applications is expected to grow fr…