CVS Health recently announced it would buy Aetna, the country’s third-largest health insurance company, for $69 billion -- a deal that could revamp the nation’s …
Author: Beth Duff-Brown
Affordable Care Act plans provide risk protection, but use of ratings can be misleading
Most relatively healthy Affordable Care Act plan consumers pay more out-of-pocket than they may have thought based on the rating level — from bronze to …
Physician-academics help assess humanitarian and medical response in war-torn Iraq
Paul Wise, MD, a Stanford pediatrician and professor of medicine, recently returned from Iraq where he witnessed what humanitarian health care workers and Iraqi physicians …
Global pandemics affect us all, Stanford health policy researchers write
Some Americans believe pandemics are health catastrophes contained to the developing world, far across the globe and unlikely to impact them. But Stanford's Michele Barry, MD, …
Study: Offering apology in patient injury cases doesn’t lead to increase in lawsuits
Sometimes a simple apology can go a long way — even in the doctor-patient relationship. Stanford Health Policy’s Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, has new research …
Study shows one federal food program may lead to lower health-care expenditures
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 …
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 …