As the national debate over health-care costs continues, it’s good to learn that one government program appears to be lowering medical expenditures for those Americans …
Author: Beth Duff-Brown
Exploring the capitation reimbursement model for primary care
A leading question in primary care is whether practices can shift towards delivering better preventive and proactive health services. A key barrier to that shift …
Planting design seeds to fill diagnostic holes at low-income clinics
Health policy researcher Kathryn McDonald, PhD, recently asked a group of physicians who work with low-income patients in San Francisco what keeps them up at night. …
Foreign aid cutbacks could harm health of Americans, Stanford health policy researcher argues
New legislation introduced last week to could reduce foreign aid by $10 billion. Some of these cuts would affect global health organizations that fight HIV …
Examining the education gap among boys and girls in low- and mid-income countries
While the education gap is virtually nil in the United States, fewer girls in developing countries finish high school. And this results in poor health …
Stanford health researcher wins prize for using statistics to prevent rapes in Kenya
Mike Baiocchi, PhD, grew up in a family of nurses and passionate public health advocates. He says a liberal can-do attitude was baked into his …
How Medicare payment changes affected home dialysis use
End-stage renal disease makes up 7.2 percent of Medicare spending, even though those patients represent less than 1 percent of the Medicare population, according to …
Research shows that handgun sales spiked in California after two mass shootings
A new study has yielded what might come as a surprise to some: There was a spike in the number of Californians who bought handguns for …
Proposed NIH cuts would affect Stanford Health Policy
The administration's budget proposes cutting funding to the National Institutes of Health by more than $7 billion in the next two years. That has many …
Medical malpractice reform likely back on table
The GOP’s proposed American Health Care Act may now be dead, but health policy experts say there are plenty of other health-care reforms the Trump …
Reflecting on the importance of Planned Parenthood
As Congress considers the GOP’s American Health Care Act, there are likely many people out there who don’t know that the proposed legislation calls for the defunding …
Taking painkillers with sleeping pills is an increasingly risky business
For those of us following the confounding opioid epidemic, there’s more bad news. Stanford researchers have determined that taking strong prescription painkillers together with sleeping …
Stanford health policy researchers examine new health care bill
As the debate around health care intensifies following the release earlier this week of the House Republican's American Health Care Act, several Stanford-affiliated researchers agreed to …
The current state of women’s health in the United States? Uncertain
I had no idea that before the Affordable Care Act was enacted into law some insurance companies considered pregnancy a pre-existing condition, effectively denying women …
Doctor at Women’s March: “I marched to make sure my patients’ voices would be heard”
Marcella Alsan, MD, PhD, and Burak Alsan, MD, are a power couple here at Stanford Medicine. Marcella is an assistant professor of medicine, a tropical disease …
Stanford researchers exploring consequences of Tuskegee syphilis study
I first learned about the secret U.S. government syphilis study conducted on poor black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, during a college class on ethics. The …