This month’s podcast features a round-up of this month’s blog posts and an interview with Sungchul Park of Drexel University about his recent Medical Care paper on Medicare Advantage Star Ratings and disparities in ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations.
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Transcript (partial):
Hello listeners, and welcome to the Healthy Intersections Podcast for January, 2023. This podcast is sponsored by the American Public Health Association’s Medical Care Section. I’m Lisa Lines, associate editor for the peer-reviewed journal Medical Care, and co-editor of the Medical Care Blog, both of which are also sponsored by the Medical Care Section. We are so glad you have found our podcast, and hope you’ll subscribe on your favorite podcast provider and at our website, themedicalcareblog.com.
On today’s podcast, we’re delighted to feature a fascinating interview between Jess Williams, another co-editor, and Dr. Sungchul Park of Drexel University. Their interview concerns a paper published in the December 2022 issue of Medical Care about racial and ethnic disparities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions. So don’t go away!
But before we get to the interview, I’d just like to share a few of the blog posts we published in January. These capsule summaries are no substitute for reading these posts, so I encourage you to visit the blog and spend some time with our great contributors.
Blog Roundup
First, we kicked off the new year with an important post by Ranit Mishori, Kathryn Hampton, Marsha Griffin, and Nancy E. Wang. These researchers and clinicians are affiliated with Physicians for Human Rights and Community for Children, along with Stanford, UT, and Georgetown. This impressive group wants clinicians to know how and why they can report harms to people recently released from immigration detention. If you see patients in clinical settings, do not miss this post.
Next, a duo from my own institute, RTI International, would like you to consider how CLAS standards – Culturally and Liguistically Appropriate Services – can help address health equity. These standards were designed specifically to ensure equitable access to health-related services, so if you are interested in equity, diversity, and inclusion, this post will help you connect the dots!
Finally, our own co-editor Greg Stevens asked last week, is it time for Medicaid for all? It isn’t what supporters of single-payer health care might prefer. But a Medicaid-for-all program, based on the already expansive safety-net program, might help the US get closer to universal health insurance coverage.
All these posts can be read for free! And don’t forget to share with your colleagues.
Now, let’s listen in to Jess Williams and Sungchul Park.
Lisa M. Lines