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Research & Policy Updates

News | Video

Improving Care for Older Adults

Medicare Hospice – Exploding in Size But Riddled with Quality Concerns

LDI Virtual Panel of Experts Explores the Benefit's Challenges and Potential

By:
  • Hoag Levins
March 8, 2024

Blog Post

Health Equity

How Tools That Measure People’s Disadvantage Can Improve Health and Policymaking

A Workshop of International Experts Spurs Cross-Disciplinary Exchange on the Use of Disadvantage Indices

By:
  • Miles Meline, MBE
March 7, 2024

Blog Post | Video

Improving Care for Older Adults

Medicare Payment Reform Saves Money on Surgeries But Puts More Work on Unpaid Home Caregivers

First-Of-Its-Kind Study Quantifies Cost-Shift from Health Care System to Families

By:
  • Julia Hinckley, JD
  • Hoag Levins
March 6, 2024

News

Health Equity

José Bauermeister Appointed to NIH Council on Health Equity

LDI Senior Fellow and Nursing School Professor Joins Team That Advises HHS Secretary

By:
  • Hoag Levins
March 4, 2024
Dori Abel

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

This Doctor Spends Hours Talking to Insurers. Her Patients Suffer The Most.

Prior Authorizations Were Meant to Cut Costs. Now They Delay Care, Says CHOP Rheumatologist

By:
  • Dori Abel, MD
February 28, 2024

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

FDA Boosted Florida’s Drug Import Plan From Canada, But the Canadians and Big Pharma Probably Won’t Play Along

There Are Better Ways to Achieve These Goals, an LDI Expert Writes

By:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
February 26, 2024

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Children With the Most Health Needs Are More Likely to be Underinsured

Middle-Income Families with the Neediest Children Face the Biggest Insurance Gaps, Study Finds

By:
  • Christine Weeks
February 21, 2024

Blog Post

Health Equity | Population Health

A New Clinic Model Makes It Easier to Get HIV Care and Prevention in Philadelphia

Clinics Use Stigma-Reduction, Same-Day Appointments, and a Community Focus to Make HIV Care Easier

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
February 20, 2024

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

Kidney Dialysis at Home Should Be Far Easier to Get, So Why Don’t We?

A Nephrologist and LDI Senior Fellow Joins With a Kidney Transplant Patient to Improve Access to Home Dialysis

By:
  • Yuvaram Reddy, MBBS, MPH
  • and Amber Pettis
February 19, 2024

News

Substance Use Disorder

Stigma and Sluggish Bureaucracy Block Treatment for Stimulant Use Disorder

A Gathering of Experts Focuses in on the Positive Impact of Contingency Management

By:
  • Hoag Levins
February 19, 2024

Blog Post

Substance Use Disorder

Opioid Crisis Is a Major Contributor to Maternal Mortality

Only 1 in 3 Pregnant or Postpartum People with Private Insurance Receive Needed Treatment

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
February 15, 2024

Blog Post

Improving Care for Older Adults

Caregiver Mastery May Help Lower Anxiety For The Cognitively Impaired

A New Study Highlights The Effect Confident Caregivers May Have On Family Members 

By:
  • Nadiyah Browning, MPH, PMP
February 14, 2024

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