Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Health Policy Podcast
Summary: Hosted by RWJF Clinical Scholar Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price (Penn CSP), the RWJF Clinical Scholars Health Policy Podcast is a monthly series featuring interviews with health policy experts who are visitors, alumni, or faculty of the Clinical Scholars Program.
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In a video interview with University of Pennsylvania Wharton School economics professor Mark Pauly, Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, discusses the price of hospital care for patients covered by public and private insurance. The issue has been much in the news and public debate in the wake of a special issue of Time magazine that published the most extensive report ever written about the little-known systems hospitals use to set prices hundreds or even thousands of times higher than the real costs of the services they provide. This is the third in a new series of online video and audio casts jointly produced by LDI and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program.
Although the U.S. public expects quick and massive government response to natural and man-made disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, terror attacks and mass school shootings, federal and state legislative budget cutters have quietly eliminated 45,000 public health jobs during the last several years, according to Nicole Lurie, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services. That fact and its implications were among the points she emphasized in this seventeen minute interview at the University of Pennsylvania. In the discussion with Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, Lurie, MD, MSPH, also pointed out various areas of the health-related disaster response field that appear ripe for further scholarly study.
The RWJF Clinical Scholars Health Policy Podcast kicks off a new season with special guest, Elliott S. Fisher, MD, Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Dr. Fisher, a former Clinical Scholar (University of Washington ’83-’85) and current Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, shares with series host, Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, his take on variations in care and advancing the concept of accountable care organizations (ACOs).
