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Health Care Access & Coverage

Chart of the Day: Here are the Most Lucrative Heart Procedures for Hospitals

The Big Moneymaker is a Common Cardiac Surgery, Study by LDI Fellows Finds

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
February 12, 2025

Blog Post

Health Equity

New Index Reveals Unequal Access to 40 Common Hospital Procedures

From Skin Grafts to Cesareans, a New Tool Measures Regional Availability of Surgeries to Help Decision Makers Track the Impact of Policies to Increase Equitable Access

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
January 29, 2025

Blog Post

LDI Research and Analysis That Caught Your Attention in 2024

Topics of Interest Included Insights About Health Disparities and Implications of Health Policies

By:
  • Miles Meline, MBE
January 6, 2025

In The Media STAT News

Why Harvard, Penn, And Columbia Have Turned To M.D.s For Leadership In Troubled Times

Author

Featured Fellow:
  • Guy David, PhD
September 4, 2024

In Their Own Words

Penn, Harvard and Columbia All Chose Doctors To Lead Anxious Campuses

LDI Senior Fellow Guy David Has Taught Leadership To Over 2,000 Clinicians. He Lays Out Why Doctors Can Make Great Leaders In a Stat News Op-Ed

By:
  • Guy David, PhD
August 26, 2024

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage | Health Equity

Do Wealth and Poverty Affect Access to Less-Invasive Cardiac Surgery?

Advanced Care Is Less Common in Neighborhoods with Higher Deprivation, LDI Fellows Find

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
March 13, 2024

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

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

A Confusing Patchwork of Laws Govern Nurses’ Ability to Practice

States’ Scope of Practice Laws Need to Be Standardized

By:
  • Molly Candon, PhD
  • Joanne Spetz, PhD, Amber Rose
October 2, 2023

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Concierge Medicine Drives Higher Health Costs Without Extending Lives 

Study Finds Primary Care Concierge Medicine Has Higher Costs and Equity Implications

By:
  • Julia Hinckley, JD
September 18, 2023
A variety of charts on a table with team members' hands around them.

Blog Post

LDI Research Blogs That Caught Your Attention in 2022

A Wide Range of Health Policy Issues Drew Interest

By:
  • LDI Staff
January 9, 2023

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Just How Sensitive Are Hospital Treatment Decisions to Medicare Payment Policies?

Rates Based On Local Wages Discourage The Use Of Minimally-Invasive, Device-Intensive Procedures

By:
  • David Grande, MD, MPA
  • Caitlin Davidson, MSPH
May 26, 2022
igure 1. Share of minimally invasive procedures by physician relative skill from 2012 to 2015.

Blog Post

Chart of the Day: Information, Relative Skill, and Technology Abandonment

Oncologists’ Reactions to an FDA Warning Discouraging Minimally Invasive Hysterectomies Show Skill Differences Can Prevent the Translation of Evidence into Practice

By:
  • Guy David, PhD
April 21, 2022

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