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ACO Performance in Focus at Kovner-Behrman Health ForumThe Kovner-Behrman Health Forum, an eagerly anticipated annual event at NYU Wagner, explored the question of whether Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a recent reform, are truly spurring cost reductions and greater quality through the coordination of …
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Amy KenyonAmy Kenyon's career has spanned sectors from nonprofit to philanthropy to government, and issues including community development, housing, sustainable agriculture, and the environment. Currently she serves as Special Advisor for Implementation with the US …
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John Billings… the University of California (Berkeley). NYU ED Algorithm ACS Algorithm …
Capstone Projects
Best Practices for the Trial Discharge Process… The Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) is a New York City government agency that ensures … foster families when services are not sufficient. ACS also investigates cases of neglect and abuse. ACS engaged a Capstone team to determine best practices in …
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Faculty & Research… ACS Codes ICD-9-CM Codes for ACS Conditions ICD-10-CM Codes for ACS Conditions …
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Process Evaluation For Opening Act's District 79 ProgramOpening Act provides innovative, high-quality, and free theater programming to students at under-resourced NYC high schools, giving them opportunities to develop leadership, community, and commitment. In addition to its after-school programming in …
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Eliminating the Proposed Reduction in Disproportionate Share Hospital Funding under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActHewett Chiu …
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NYU Arts and Culture Network (ACN)MISSION Formerly titled Student Network Exploring Arts & Culture (SNEAC), this student organization was formed in 2003 to promote discourse on cultural policy and arts management within NYU Wagner, as well as more broadly throughout NYU and across New …
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Inequalities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in New York City before and after the affordable care actThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by U.S. President Obama in 2010 and fully implemented in 2014. The ACA expanded health insurance by expanding the Medicaid program, creating health insurance exchanges (now called …
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The Influence of Primary Care and Hospital Supply on Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Hospitalizations Among Adults in Brazil, 1999–2007… and hospital supply on rates of ambulatory care–sensitive (ACS) hospitalizations among adults in Brazil. Methods . We … and 2007 to Brazil's 558 microregions. We modeled adult ACS hospitalization rates as a function of area-level … for endogenous explanatory variables. Results . The ACS hospitalization rates declined by more than 5% annually. …
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Enduring inequalities: Revascularization before and after the ACAThe use of revascularization (coronary artery bypass surgery [CABG] and percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI]) in the United States is declining, but they remain important procedures for the treatment of patients with coronary artery disease. There are …
Capstone Projects
Identifying Quality Assurance Best Practices in New York City Foster Care Provider Agencies… worked with the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to compare the strategic planning, quality improvement, … practices among a diverse set of agencies contracted by ACS to provide foster care services. The team gathered … improvement. Ultimately, the team made recommendations to ACS regarding ways the agency can foster implementation of …
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The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Postwar Household Stability… tenure, and extended family residence. While in the ACS white veterans are less mobile, veteran status has no … living for whites in the Census but increases it for ACS veterans of "other" races. …
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The Affordable Care Act Transformation of Substance Use Disorder TreatmentAny historical assessment of the public health legacy of the Obama administration will have to look favorably at the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA; Pub L No. 111–148) on the US response to the opioid epidemic, and its ability to incentivize and …
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The affordable care act and the cost of uncompensated careFrom 2011 to 2013, the total uncompensated costs of charity care and bad debt for U.S. hospitals amounted to $37.2 billion each year, resulting in a net loss of $24.6 billion dollars each year. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law in 2010, would …
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What Is the Future of the Affordable Care Act? What happens if the Affordable Care Act is repealed? Sherry Glied, Dean of NYU Wagner, led a critical discussion of the newly imperiled reform and the future of the health insurance landscape in America, organized by Philanthropy New York , a regional …
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The Impact of Insurance Expansions on the Already Insured: The Affordable Care Act and MedicareSome states have not adopted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions due to concerns that the expansions may impair access to care and utilization for those who are already insured. We investigate such negative spillovers using a large panel of …
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How Have ACA Insurance Expansions Affected Health Outcomes? Findings from the LiteratureA growing body of literature examining the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on nonelderly adults provides promising evidence of improvements in health outcomes through insurance expansions. Our review of forty-three studies that employed a …
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The Stafford Act: An Agenda for ReformThe Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act) is the principal legislation governing the federal response to disasters within the United States. The act spells out - among other things - how disasters are declared, …
Capstone Projects
The State of Cancer in Developing Countries of Asia and Latin America… and access to care; identified potential partners for ACS to collaborate with (mainly government agencies and … within the U.S. were also analyzed to determine how ACS can best conduct outreach to immigrant groups for …
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The State of Cancer in Developing Countries of Asia and Latin America… and access to care; identified potential partners for ACS to collaborate with (mainly government agencies and … within the U.S. were also analyzed to determine how ACS can best conduct outreach to immigrant groups for …
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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Work Environments and Hospitalizations and ED Use among Chronically Ill Medicare Beneficiaries… environment and 3 outcomes: Ambulatory Care Sensitive (ACS) ED visits, all-cause ED visits, and all-cause … increase in the work environment score, the risk of an ACS-ED visit decreased by 4.4% [risk ratio (RR)=0.956; 99% … There was no relationship between NP work environment and ACS hospitalizations. Conclusion : Favorable NP work …
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The Stafford Act and Priorities for ReformDuring the past fifty years, federal disaster policy in the United States has been shaped by an ongoing conflict between proponents who favor federal intervention following a disaster and those who believe disaster response should be the responsibility of …