...Carol S. Weissert; William G. Weissert State legislative staff may influence health policy by gathering intelligence, setting the agenda, and shaping the legislative proposals. But they may also be stymied in their roles by such institutional constraints as hiring practices and by turnover...

.... Smith, and A. Mark Fendrick. 2003 . Approval Times for New Drugs: Does the Source of Funding for FDA Staff Matter? Health Affairs . Web Exclusive, 17 December. Available online at content. healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.w3.618v1/DC1 . Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), U.S...

...Amy L. Woodhall Daniel A. Lang. Managing Medical Staff Change through Bylaws and Other Strategies . Chicago: American Hospital Publishing, 1995. 147 pp. $56.50 cloth. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 376 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law conclusions are across...

...’ Views on the Failure of Health Reform: A Survey of Members of Congress and Staff Orval Hansen Columbia Institute Robert J. Blendon...

... for their Medicaid busi- ness, staff dealing with private sector customers often had no familiarity at all with risk adjustment. In Seattle, Boeing (still headquartered in this metropolitan area when we visited) had employed Mercer to do some preliminary investigating of whether some of their self-insured...

...John A. Rizzo; John H. Goddeeris Legal suits contesting the denial or termination of hospital staff privileges are the most common antitrust cases involving medical markets. There is, however, very little evidence about the economic implications for the physicians of having staff privileges. Using...

... economic and political factors, is associated with adopting wage pass-through (WPT) policies, which direct a portion of Medicaid reimbursement or its increase toward nursing home staff in an effort to reduce staff turnover, thereby increasing efficiency and the quality of care provided. Contrary...

... to recruit to the staff social activists taken to be representative of the community (although they might not be), promising opportunities for upward mobility. They also tended to adopt conciliatory administrative styles in keeping with their experimental non-elitist orientations. These tendencies...

... state agencies, providers, and managed care organizations. Findings: Policy makers expanded substance use treatment in response to “fragmented” care systems and unsustainable funding streams. Medicaid staff had mixed preferences for implementing new benefits via 1115 waivers or state plan amendments...

... providing Medicaid managed care services, including state Medicaid officials, health benefit counselor staff (enrollment brokers), managed care plan (HMO) staff, and consumer advocates. The training addressed the core issue in health literacy: the mismatch between the low literacy skills of the target...

... controversial cases will be shared with various publics. What follows is a summary of the conferees' views about what physicians and hospital staff should consider in establishing policies for their institutions. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Treating Handicapped Newborns: Suggestions...

... to get funding. But imposing this methodology encourages agencies to use research staffs more to defend against the budget office than to help create effective programs, creates differences between the expectations of government and the public, and fosters the overrepresentation of particular interests...

... led to elevated blood lead levels and lead poisoning in resident children. This study presents a detailed account of and analyzes the opinions of fifteen key informants drawn from the Philadelphia health and law departments and judicial system that staff and run the PLC in response to a fifteen...

..., introduction of fees for services, disruption of program continuity, service delays, demoralization of public employees, termination of contracts with community clinics, and drastic reductions in staff and services by special districts. Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University...

... II when a decision was made to link VA hospitals to medical schools. This linkage in large measure has been responsible for the program's focus on acute care. The VA professional staff prefers an even greater interaction of the program with medical education. Others suggest its termination...

... associations in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles are used to examine the emergence of “patient-care” demands and their compatibility with collective bargaining frameworks. As house-staff have become principal providers of care to indigent populations in public hospitals, and economic cutbacks have endangered...

... to Medicaid would also be short-lived, since teaching hospitals would have the incentive to reduce teaching program size and substitute reimbursable personnel (nurses and staff physicians) for residents. Medicaid Reimbursement of Teaching Hospitals Jack Hadley, The Urban Institute Abstract...

... to the formal program goals of cost containment and access. The operational and bureaucratic problems the state Medicaid staff has experienced in maintaining the program evokes questions of who should administer the programs, who the best types of providers are in light of program goals, and how recipients can...

...David Barton Smith Abstract Unnecessary surgery has been a focus of health policy concern for decades. Such events are supposed to be prevented by the (a) self-policing of hospital medical staffs, (b) oversight of state medical boards, (c) third-party restrictions on payment, and (d) threat...