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. Brian Biles Discusses the Status of Medicare Advantage (May 6, 2013)
Since the 1970s Medicare beneficiaries have had the option of receiving their Medicare benefits via private health insurance plans. Today 27% of Medicare beneficiaries, or 13.3 million sen…
Joan Alker Discusses What's Known About the Quality of Care Provided by For-Profit Medicaid Managed Care Plans (April 18, 2013)
It's estimated the Affordable Care Act will add another 16-17 million lives to the 60 million Americans already receiving Medicaid. Of these current 60 million Medicaid enrollees, two-thir…
Dr. Burt Edelstein Discussess Tooth Decay, the Most Chronic Infectious Disease Among Children (April 10, 2013)
Tooth decay affects US children more than any other chronic infectious disease. It is five times more common than asthma and almost entirely preventable. Between 41% and 55% of children a…
Dr. Brian Isetts Discusses Ways to Improve Medication Therapy (April 3, 2013)
Over 80 percent of Americans take at least one medication, nearly 30 percent take five or more. That translates to more than 3.5 billion prescriptions written every year making drugs the th…
Dr. Bob Berenson Discusses Possible Remedies for the Infamous Medicare "Doc Fix" (March 26, 2013)
In 1997 the Congress reformed how it pays physicians under Medicare. The new formula was termed the "sustainable growth rate" (SGR). The impetus for the reform was to control better Medi…
Ms. Suzanne Mintz Discusses the Work of Family Caregivers and the Caregiver Action Network (March 12, 2013)
Family caregivers are the most ignored providers of health care delivery despite the fact they constitute 30 percent of the adult population, or are 65 million Americans. Caregivers are mo…
Dr. Linda Randolph Discusses the Developing Families Center's Maternal and Child Health Care Model (March 7, 2013)
Dr. Linda Randolph, President and CEO of District of Columbia's Developing Families Center (DFC), discusses DFC's unique maternal and child health care model that has drawn international a…
Dr. Ruth Lubic Discusses Midwifery's Contribution to Improving Healthy Births (March 5, 2013)
For decades the US has experienced the highest infant mortality rate of high income countries. The US also ranks poorly on other birth outcomes such as pre-term births, low birth weight an…
Dr. Susan Bennett Discusses the Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease, the #1 Killer of Women (and Men) (February, 21, 2013)
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women (and men) in the US, accounting for one in every four deaths, however, among women, only 50% recognize heart disease is their #1 killer…
Discussion with Dr. Steven Woolf on the IOM's Recent Report, "US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health" (February 15, 2013)
In January 2013 the Institute of Medicine released "Shorter Lives, Poorer Health" a 404-page report that found Americans die sooner, experience higher rates of disease and injury than peopl…
Dr. Kavita Patel Discusses the Promise of Accountable Care Organizations (February 11, 2013)
One of the most discussed provisions of the Affordable Care Act promising to "bend the cost curve" are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). CMS has now selected over 250, moreover physi…
Interview with Dr. Jessie Gruman on What Does "Patient Engagement" Mean and Why It's Essential in Improving Health Care Delivery and Patient Outcomes (January 29, 2013)
During this 28 minute podcast Dr. Gruman explains briefly the mission of the Center for Advancing Health. She then defines what is patient engagement or patient participation by identifyin…
Dr. Joanne Lynn Discusses Improving Care Transitions to Avoid Hospitalizations and Re-hospitalizations (Janurary 23, 2013)
This 35 minute interview begins with Dr. Lynn describing the work of her Center in addressing how to improve care for the frail elderly. Dr. Lynn then explains in some detail a three-year …
Dr. Paul Van de Water Discusses Recommendations to Stabilize the Federal Debt, Including Recommendations for Reforms to Medicare and Social Security (January 17, 2013)
In this 34 minute podcast Dr. Paul Van de Water explains the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' recent call for an additional $1.5 trillion in budgetary savings to stabilize the federa…
Interview With Sarah Kliff and Amy Lotven on What Medicare and Medicaid Reforms Might We See in 2013 (January 8, 2013)
Since the remedy to the "fiscal cliff" did not include structural reforms to Medicare and Medicaid and since Congressional Republicans will call for entitlement savings during the upcoming …
Interview with Dr. Diana Zuckerman on the Dangers of Anti-psychotic Drug Overuse in Nursing Homes (December 21, 2012)
During this 30 minute interview Dr. Zuckerman discusses the long-standing and widespread overuse or misuse of anti-psychotics in medicating nursing home residents. She identifies some of t…
Interview with John Rother on How to (Further) Achieve Affordable Health Care Delivery (Dec. 11, 2012)
In preparation for further federal health care policy reform anticipated next year several plans are floating around Washington, D.C., all promising, among other things, to "bend the cost c…
Interview with E. Diane Champé on Childhood Sexual Abuse, Its Adult Survivors and What Can Be Done to Prevent Abuse and Treat Survivors (Dec. 7, 2012)
In this 35 minute podcast Ms. E. Diane Champé discusses the prevalence of child abuse and her personal experience as a victim and a survivor. She explains how and why the issue receives li…
Interview with Dr. Robert Reischauer on the "Fiscal Cliff" (Nov. 29, 2012)
In this 38 minute interview Dr. Reischauer defines what's meant by the "fiscal cliff" and what's problematic about it near and long term. He discusses what the Congress can possibly achie…