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Rural Americans Have Higher Rates of Heart Disease, Driven by Poverty and Food Insecurity, Study Finds
Health policy experts at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
Health Care Policy Research Section takes on AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2025
At the beginning of the month, nine members for the Health Care Policy...
Young People Lead New Wave of Americans Unaware of Their Hypertension
2023 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease: A Report of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines
"...Lower education and income levels were associated with lower prescribing of GDMT, as well as outcomes post-MI..." ( Association of outpatient practice-level socioeconomic disadvantage with quality of care and outcomes among older adults with coronary artery disease: implications for value-based...
Medicare Program; End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, Payment for Renal Dialysis Services Furnished to Individuals With Acute Kidney Injury, Conditions for Coverage for End-Stage Renal Disease Facilities, End-Stage Renal Disease Quality...
"...Patients with DES experience significant disparities are also likely to be more medically complex and remain one of the most vulnerable populations..." ( Mortality and Hospitalizations for Dually Enrolled and Nondually Enrolled Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65 Years or Older, 2004 to 2017. JAMA...
Dr. Jamila Michener’s Written Statement for US House of Reps Committee on Oversight and Reforms Hearing on Examining Pathways to Universal Health Coverage
"...People of color are more likely to delay care or forgo treatment..." ( Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Delaying or Not Receiving Medical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2022.)
Testimony of Health Care for All for the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission on the topic of Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark for Calendar Year 2022
"...These disparities combined had a deadly effect in the pandemic. Black and Latinx residents were more likely to contract, be hospitalized for, and die from COVID-19 in Massachusetts..." ( Community-Level Factors Associated With Racial And Ethnic Disparities In COVID-19 Rates In Massachusetts...
South Asian Heart Health Awareness and Research Act of 2022 – The Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union by Mr. Pallone from the Committee on Energy and Commerce
"...In addition, during the COVID–19 pandemic in the United States, Black, Hispanic, and Asian populations experienced a disproportionate rise in deaths caused by heart disease and cerebrovascular disease..."( Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart and Cerebrovascular Disease Deaths During the COVID...
Report to Congress: Medicare Payment Policy
"For example, studies have found that the number of primary care physicians and PAs per capita tends to be lower in low-income counties compared with higher-income counties; in contrast, NPs are more evenly distributed across counties or even slightly more prevalent in counties with lower incomes" (...