Most Medicaid beneficiaries have health insurance coverage through managed care organizations (MCOs), so the contracts that state Medicaid programs negotiate with MCOs shape the care their low-income populations receive. In recent years, states have increasingly used their managed care contracts to encourage improvement for specific groups or in specific areas, such as maternal health, and drive innovations in care and payment reform.
Legal and Ethical Architecture for Patient Centered Outcomes Research Data
The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a legal and ethical framework and architecture for patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative effectiveness research (CER).
Publication on Information Sharing in Medical-Legal Partnerships by Jane Hyatt Thorpe and HPM Team
A GW Health Policy and Management team led by the department’s vice chair, Associate Professor Jane Hyatt Thorpe, and including faculty and staff members Lara Cartwright-Smith, Elizabeth Gray, and Marie Mongeon co-authored a new Medical Legal Partnership issue brief, “Information Sharing
Healthcare Leadership Council Releases Jane Hyatt Thorpe and Elizabeth Gray’s White Paper
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs Jane Hyatt Thorpe and Research Scientist Elizabeth Gray authored the white paper, “Health System Transformation: Revisiting the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Physician Self – Referral (Stark) Law to Foster Integrated Care Delivery and Payment Models,” released by the Healthcare Leadership C
Lara Cartwright-Smith, Elizabeth Gray and Jane Hyatt Thorpe Published in Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law
Associate Research Professor Lara Cartwright-Smith, Research Scientist Elizabeth Gray and Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs Jane Hyatt Thorpe published “Health Information Ownership: Legal Theories and Policy Implicati