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Mar 11 2023
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Philly Mag: A Penn Doc’s Green Initiative Shows How Environmental Factors Impact Gun Violence

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From Philly Mag: It was the repeat customers who really got to Eugenia South. The kids who’d come into her emergency room at HUP after having been shot not once, but for a second and third time. “We take such good care of physical injuries,” she says wryly. “We bring people back from the brink of death — but we do little to address the upstream factors that cause the violence.” And seeing children return to her for patching-up again and again — “I couldn’t not try to do something. To try to come up with a solution.” President Biden’s latest plan to…

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Mar 06 2023
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Dr. Justin Bekelman Named to National Cancer Policy Forum 

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Justin Bekelman, MD, has been named a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Forum (NCPF). The NCPF serves as a trusted venue in which experts and leaders can work collaboratively to identify and examine high-priority policy issues in cancer care and research. According to the National Academies, the Forum “provides a continual focus within the National Academies on cancer, addressing policy issues relevant to the goal of reducing the cancer burden, through basic and translational research, prevention, and by improving the care and outcomes for those diagnosed with cancer.” Dr. Bekelman is Director…

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Mar 04 2023
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Newsbit: MedPAC Considers Reference Pricing and Other Ideas for Cutting Part B Drug Costs

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From Newsbit: Congress will need to use a multipronged approach to bring down prescription drug costs in the Medicare Part B program, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) agreed at their March meeting on Thursday. MedPAC members discussed three draft recommendations being considered for inclusion in the commission’s June report to Congress. The recommendations addressed rising drug costs in Medicare Part B, which covers, among other things, the cost of drugs administered in a physician’s office. The three proposed recommendations were: Give the HHS secretary the authority to cap the cost of Medicare Part B drugs that were…

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Feb 22 2023
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I-frame, S-frame, and the Use of Behavioral Economics in Government: A Q&A with Cass Sunstein

I-frame, S-frame, and the Use of Behavioral Economics in Government: A Q&A with Cass Sunstein

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Drs. Nick Chater and George Loewenstein created quite a stir in the behavioral economics world when they argued in a recent paper that some behavioral scientists have mistakenly focused their efforts on trying to solve society’s biggest problems by focusing on changing individual behavior instead of by addressing systemic or structural issues. Drs. Chater and Loewenstein believe that individual-level interventions (i-frame) often have modest effects and posit that these efforts might deflect attention and support from how system-level interventions (s-frame) could tackle these issues. For example, they write: “[W]e doubt that the problem of reducing carbon emissions can be solved…

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Feb 01 2023
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Philadelphia Inquirer: How To Prevent Millions From Losing Medicaid Coverage

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From The Philadelphia Inquirer: by Kevin B. Mahoney and Madeline Bell, For The Inquirer Health-care coverage for millions of Americans is barreling toward a cliff. When the COVID-19 pandemic upended our lives and the economy, millions of Americans lost their jobs and their health insurance. Fortunately, Medicaid — which makes health care accessible for low-income individuals and families and those with disabilities — provided the coverage they needed to avoid catastrophe. Today, approximately 3.5 million Pennsylvanians rely on Medicaid, over 1.5 million of whom are children. Unlike Medicare coverage for seniors 65 and older, in which participants remain eligible once they enroll, Medicaid has…

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Jan 12 2023
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MedPage Today: MedPAC Recommends Upping Doc Pay, Especially for Those Who Treat Low-Income Patients

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From MedPage Today: Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) on Thursday approved two draft recommendations for Congress aimed at increasing payments under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. “I’m very supportive of this work,” said Cheryl Damberg, PhD, commission member and director of the RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance. “I do think that this Medicare safety-net payment add-on will be critically important, especially in promoting greater access for low-income populations.” Damberg was responding to two draft recommendations presented by MedPAC staff members for inclusion in the commission’s upcoming March report to Congress. The first recommendation would update…

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