In conjunction with other legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is transforming medical care in the United States. The ACA is seeking to improve patient and population health outcomes while lowering costs. One mechanism is to incentivize the use of interprofessional health teams in primary and specialty care settings. These changes require reconfiguring and…
Many organizations have called for increased transparency and accountability for public funds invested in graduate medical education (GME) but federal efforts have stalled. In the absence of federal GME reform, states are increasingly exploring ways to leverage Medicaid funds to shape the size, specialty mix, and geographic distribution of their workforce. This policy brief investigates…
There is a distinct need for a flexible ambulatory care workforce that possesses core clinical and practice management competencies, but is also nimble in its ability to adapt to new innovations. This requires programs that can facilitate continuous learning of new skill sets needed to keep pace with emerging federal and state policies that are…
Many health workforce models project shortages in multiple specialties. Graduate medical education could be expanded or redistributed to help fill these shortages if training positions are allocated appropriately. This article presents an objective, evidence-based methodology that could be used to allocate thousands of new graduate medical education slots by state and specialty to address projected…
The rate at which physicians migrate from one state to another varies both between and within specialties. A better understanding of the migration patterns within specialties would help improve workforce projections. This article describes a comparison between physicians in the 2009 American Medical Association Masterfile data and those in the 2013 file to help estimate…
While federal graduate medical education (GME) reform efforts have stalled, states have become increasingly active in determining ways to target Medicaid and state appropriations toward producing the workforce needed to meet population health needs. However, states have voiced the need for better data to determine where to target these funds and evaluate their return on…
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Many Medicare recipients who are discharged from the hospital after suffering from a stroke are readmitted. Some patients who have suffered a stroke and are discharged from the hospital receive occupational or physical therapy in the home or some other outpatient setting. This article describes a cohort analysis of Medicare claims from 2010 to 2013…
Social workers are now doing more of their work in integrated health settings that require them to perform a variety of different roles and skills. As these settings are often more complex, the roles that social workers perform in them is not well understood. This article describes a study which utilized an online survey of…
In primary care settings, social workers are increasingly helping to deliver care as part of integrated teams of professionals. However, little is known about the functions of these interprofessional teams that include social workers and the value that social workers bring to those teams. This article describes a systematic review of randomized controlled trials to…
