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Research & Policy Updates

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Population Health

Optimizing Alternative Payment Models Could Advance Equity and Improve Outcomes in Pregnancy

LDI Fellows Identify a Population Approach to Align Payments with High-Quality Care

By:
  • Kaday Kamara, MPH
December 18, 2023
Supreme Court Chamber

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

Texas Abortion Case Shows the Limits to Exceptions in Abortion Bans

People Whose Babies Will Surely Die Should Be Able to Choose Their Care

By:
  • Abigail Wilpers, PhD, WHNP-BC
December 14, 2023

Blog Post

Health Equity | Population Health

Trauma Surgeon Works To Confront Firearm Injury at Its Source

LDI Senior Fellow Elinore Kaufman Focuses on Helping Patients and Communities Thrive

By:
  • Julia Hinckley, JD
December 13, 2023

News

Substance Use Disorder

Penn LDI Team Leads Senate Health Care Committee Staff Briefing

Addiction and Recovery Specialists Provide Evidence for Methadone Distribution Changes

By:
  • Hoag Levins
December 13, 2023

News | Video

Population Health

A Nurse Scientist’s Insider View of the Burnout Crisis

LDI Senior Fellow and Penn Nursing Researcher Karen Lasater Discusses the Evidence (Video)

By:
  • Hoag Levins
December 11, 2023

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

For-Profit Hospitals Admit at Higher Rates from Emergency Departments Than Nonprofits

LDI Fellow’s Study Supports Federal Probes of Hospitals for Over-Admitting Patients

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
December 7, 2023

News | Video

Health Equity

Sorting Out Fact and Fiction of a National Nursing Shortage

Penn LDI Virtual Seminar Eyes Hospital Working Conditions That Drive Nurses from the Workplace

By:
  • Hoag Levins
December 7, 2023

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Val Arkoosh, Pa.’s Human Services Head, Describes Her Strategy for Change

The DHS Secretary Cites Key Moves in Medicaid at an LDI Event

By:
  • Karl Stark
December 5, 2023

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

Nonprofit Hospitals Are Hounding Poor People for Money and Failing to Serve Patients’ Interests, News Reports Show

Here’s How to Get Them to Refocus on Their Communities Instead of Profits 

By:
  • Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD
December 4, 2023

Policy

Substance Use Disorder

Addressing U.S. Opioid Epidemic Through Increasing Access to Methadone

Briefing: Presented to Staff of U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

By:
  • Ashish P. Thakrar, MD, MS
  • David Mandell, ScD
  • Jeffrey R. Jaeger, MD
December 4, 2023

News | Video

Health Equity

The Safety-Net Funding That Isn’t Getting to Safety-Net Patients

Penn LDI's Paula Chatterjee on the Flaws of the Disproportionate Share Hospital Payment Program

By:
  • Hoag Levins
December 4, 2023
Penn LDI Insights on Policy Graphic

Policy

Health Care Access & Coverage

Insurance Coverage for Over-the-Counter Preventive Services Without a Prescription

Comment: Submitted to U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services

By:
  • Abigail Wilpers, PhD, WHNP-BC
  • Alice Abernathy, MD, MSHP
  • Courtney Schreiber, MD, MPH
  • Heather Burris, MD, MPH
  • Holly M. Harner, PhD, RN
  • Mario DeMarco, MD, MPH
  • Sammy Dhaliwal, PhD, MSc
  • Sindhu K. Srinivas, MD, MSCE
December 1, 2023

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