Recent Publications

Rosenbaum, S., Cartwright-Smith, L., Margulies, R., Wood, S., Mauery, R. "An Analysis of the Implications of the Stupak/Pitts Amendment for Coverage of Medically Indicated Abortions." Nov 16, 2009.

Stewart, A. "Mandatory Vaccination of Health Care Workers." NEJM, Nov 4, 2009. (External Access)

Biles, B., Pozen, J., Adrion, E., Arnold, G. "Paying Medicare Private Plans By Blend-Based System: Where are the Gains and Loses?." Nov 2009.

Katz, R., Allen, H. "Domestic Understanding of the International Health Regulations." Public Health Reports, Issue No. 6. Vol. 124 806-124. CDC, Nov 2009. (External Access)

Rosenbaum, S., Lopez, N., Stifler, S. "Health Care Fraud." Oct 27, 2009. (External Access)

Jha, A., DesRoches, C., Shields, A., Miralles, P., Zheng, J., Rosenbaum, S., Campbell, E. "Evidence Of An Emerging Digital Divide Among Hospitals That Care For The Poor." Health Affairs On-line exclusive, Oct 26, 2009. (External Access)

Ku, L., Rosenbaum, S., Shin, P. "Using Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Potential Impact of Health Center Expansion in Senate Reforms." Issue No. 16. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Oct 14, 2009.

Shin, P., Ku, L., Mauery, R., Finnegan, B., Rosenbaum, S. "Estimating the Economic Gains for States as a Result of Medicaid Coverage Expansions for Adults." Issue No. 15. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Oct 7, 2009.

Rosenbaum, S. "Medicaid Payment Rate Lawsuits: Evolving Court Views Mean Uncertain Future for Medi-Cal." Oct 2009. (External Access)

Petinaux, B., May, L., Katz, R., Luk, J., Goldenberg, I. "Clinical and Public Health Decisions in Preparing for 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) in Institutions of Higher Education." American Journal of Disaster Medicine, Issue No. 5. Vol. 4 Oct 2009.

Rosenbaum, S. "Medicaid and National Health Care Reform." NEJM, Sep 14, 2009. (External Access)

Ku, L., Richard, P., Dor, A., Tan, E., Shin, P., Rosenbaum, S. "Using Primary Care to Bend the Curve: Estimating the Impact of a Health Center Expansion on Health Care Costs." Issue No. 14. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Sep 1, 2009.

LaVeist, T., Gaskin, D., Richard, P. "The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States." Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Sep 2009. (External Access)

Richard, P., Pierre K. Alexandre, P., Silvia S. Martins, M. "Disparities in Adequate Mental Health Care for Past-Year Major Depressive Episodes Among Caucasian and Hispanic Youths." Psychiatric Services, Vol. 60 1365-1371. Sep 2009.

Huang, J., Ramos, C., Jones, K., Regenstein, M. "Issue Brief - Talking with Patients: How Hospitals use Bilingual Clinicians and Staff to Care for Patients with Language Needs." Sep 2009.

Ferguson, C., Muldoon, A. "Not All are Created Equal: Differences in Obesity Attitudes Between Men and Women." Women's Health Issues, Issue No. 5. Vol. 19 289-291. Sep 2009. (External Access)

Hidalgo, J., Gibson, T., Lee, T., Vogeli, C. "A four-system comparison of patients with chronic illness: the Military Health System, Veterans Health Administration, Medicaid, and commercial plans in Military Medicine." Military Medicine, Issue No. 9. Vol. 174 936-943. Sep 2009. (External Access)

Chen, C. "Medicare Graduate Medical Education Policy and the Primary Care Provider Workforce." Health Resources and Services Administration National Rural and Underserved Workforce Summit, Aug 12, 2009. (External Access)

Hayashi, S., Jones, E., Stevens, D., Shin, P., Finnegan, B., Rosenbaum, S. "Health Center Data Warehouses: Opportunities and Challenges for Quality Improvement." Issue No. 13. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Aug 7, 2009.

Ku, L. "Do Medicaid and CHIP Measure Errors Correctly?." Aug 4, 2009.

Huang, J., Ramos, C., Jones, K., Regenstein, M. "Talking with Patients: How Hospitals use Bilingual Clinicians and Staff to Care for Patients with Language Needs." Aug 2009.

Katherine C. Chretien, M., S. Ryan Greysen, M., Jean-Paul Chretien, M., Terry Kind, M. "Online Posting of Unprofessional Content by Medical Students." JAMA, Issue No. 12. Vol. 302 1309-1315. Aug 2009. (External Access)

Katz, R. "Use of Revised International Health Regulations during Influenza A (H1N1) Epidemic, 2009." Emerging Infectious Diseases, Issue No. 8. Vol. 15 1165-70. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Aug 2009. (External Access)

Hayashi, S., Selia, E., McDonnell, K. "Stress and Provider Retention in Underserved Communities." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Vol. 20 597-604. Aug 2009.

Regenstein, M., Siegel, B., Nolan, L., Anthony, D. "Emergency Department Operations in Top-Performing Safety-Net Hospitals." The Commonwealth Fund, Washington, DC. Jul 31, 2009. (External Access)

Dor, A., Richard, P., Tan, E., Rosenbaum, S., Shin, P., Repasch, L. "Community Health Centers in Indiana: State Investments and Returns." Issue No. 12. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Jul 29, 2009.

Cartwright-Smith, L., Rosenbaum, S. "Fair Process in Physician Performance Rating Systems: Overview and Analysis of Colorado's Physician Designation Disclosure Act." BNA Health Care Policy Report, Issue No. 30. Vol. 17 BNA, Jul 27, 2009.

Ku, L., Shin, P., Rosenbaum, S. "Estimating the Effects of Health Reform on Health Centers Capacity to Expand to New Medically Underserved Communities and Populations." Issue No. 11. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Washington, DC. Jul 23, 2009.

Burke, T., Cartwright-Smith, L., Pereira, E., Rosenbaum, S. "Antitrust Aspects of Health Information Sharing By Public and Private Health Insurers." Health Law Reporter, BNA, Jul 23, 2009.

Stevens, D. "Children and Health Information Technology." Jul 15, 2009.

Rosenbaum, S., Jones, E., Shin, P., Ku, L. "National Health Reform: How Will Medically Underserved Communities Fare?." Issue No. 10. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Washington, DC. Jul 10, 2009.

Rosenbaum, S. "Insurance Discrimination on the Basis of Health Status: An Overview of Discrimination Practices, Federal Law, and Federal Reform Options." Legal Solutions in Health Reform, The O Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Jul 8, 2009. (External Access) [Executive Summary]

Finnegan, B., Ku, L., Shin, P., Rosenbaum, S. "Boosting Health Information Technology in Medicaid: The Potential Effect of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act." Issue No. 9. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Washington, DC. Jul 7, 2009.

Rosenbaum, S., Lopez, N., Morris, J., Simon, M. "Medicaid's Medical Transportation Assurance: Origins, Evolution, Current Trends, and Implications for Health Reform." George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Policy, Washington, DC. Jul 1, 2009.

Ku, L. "Health-Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures for Immigrants and Native-Born Citizens in the United States." American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 99 (7) : 1322-28. Jul 2009. (External Access)

Ku, L., MacTaggart, P., Pervez, F., Rosenbaum, S. "Improving Medicaid's Continuity of Coverage and Quality of Care." Jul 2009.

Biles, B., Pozen, J. "Paying Medicare Private Plans By Competitive Bidding: Not The Same As Costs In Regular Medicare." Jul 2009.

Mullan, F. "Tri-Committee Draft Proposal for Health Care Reform." Jun 24, 2009.

Rosenbaum, S., Lopez, N., Stifler, S. "Health Insurance Fraud: An Overview." Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Policy, Jun 23, 2009.

Wood, S., Dor, A., Gee, R., Harms, A., Mauery, R., Rosenbaum, S., Tan, E. "Women's Health and Health Care Reform: The Economic Burden of Disease in Women." The Jacobs Institute of Women s Health The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC. Jun 15, 2009.

Stewart, A. "When Vaccine Injury Claims Go to Court." N Engl J Med., Issue No. 24. Vol. 360 2498-500. Jun 11, 2009. (External Access)

Cartwright-Smith, L., Rosenbaum, S., Belli, K., Purcell, E., Tasmeen, S. "The Application of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to Hospital Inpatients." EMSC, Jun 2009.

Shin, P., Ku, L., Jones, E., Finnegan, B., Rosenbaum, S. "Financing Community Health Centers as Patient- and Community-Centered Medical Homes: A Primer." The Commonwealth Fund, The George Washington University Department of Health Policy Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, Washington, DC. May 27, 2009.

Rosenbaum, S. "Roundtable: Health Care Coverage." United States Senate, Committee on Finance, Roundtable on Health Care Coverage, Washington, DC. May 5, 2009. (External Access)

Biles, B., Pozen, J., Guterman, S. "The Continuing Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans Jump to $11.4 Billion in 2009." The Commonwealth Fund, May 4, 2009. (External Access)

Katz, R., Feiden, K. "The H1N1 Influenza A Virus: A Test Case for a Global Response." Rapid Public Health Policy Response Project, GW School of Public Health and Health Services and the Homeland Security Policy Institute, Washington, DC. May 2009.

Mullan, F. "Primary Health Care Access Reform: Community Health Centers and the National Health Service Corps." U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Round Table on Primary Health Care Access Reform, Washington, DC. Apr 30, 2009. (External Access)

Hayashi, S., Finnegan, B., Shin, P., Jones, E., Rosenbaum, S. "Examining the Experiences of Puerto Rico s Community Health Centers Under the Government Health Insurance Plan." Issue No. 8. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Apr 22, 2009. [En Español]

Taylor, M., David, S. "Stronger Partnerships for Safer Food: An Agenda for Strengthening State and Local Roles in the Nation's Food Safety System." GW SPHHS, Washington, DC. Apr 17, 2009. (External Access)

Siegel, B., Bear, D., Andres, E., Mead, H. "Measuring Equity: An Index of Health Care Disparities." Quality Management in Health Care, Vol. 18 (2) : 84-90. Quality Management in Health Care, Apr 2009.

Mullan, F. "Making Health Care Work for American Families: Improving Access to Care." Mar 24, 2009. (External Access)

Mullan, F. "Health Care Workforce Issues and Access to Care: Assessing the Present and Preparing for the Future." Mar 24, 2009.

Wood, S., Mauery, R. "U.S. District Court Directs FDA to Reevaluate Previous Plan B Decision. Jacobs Institute of Women's Health." Jacob's Institute of Women's Health, School of Public Health and Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Mar 23, 2009.

Mullan, F. "Workforce Issues in Health Care Reform: Assessing the Present and Preparing for the Future." Mar 12, 2009. (External Access)

Mullan, F. "Assessing the Present and Preparing for the Future." Mar 12, 2009.

Rosenbaum, S., Finnegan, B., Shin, P. "Community Health Centers in an Era of Health System Reform and Economic Downturn: Prospects and Challenges." Kaiser Family Foundation, Mar 2009. [

Related Fact Sheet

]

Ku, L., Jones, E., Finnegan, B., Shin, P., Rosenbaum, S. "How is the Primary Care Safety Net Faring in Massachusetts? Community Health Centers in the Midst of Health Reform." Kaiser Family Foundation Geiger & Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Mar 2009.

Borzi, P. "Retiree Health VEBAs: A New Twist On An Old Paradigm." Mar 2009. (External Access)

Stewart, A. "Vaccines and Autism: The Evidence and the Law." Mar 2009. (External Access)

Rosenbaum, S., Cartwright-Smith, L., Burke, T., Borzi, P., Goldstein, M. "A brief summary of the major health provisions contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009." Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Feb 18, 2009. [Detailed Side-by-Side chart tracking the major health provisions in the Senate, House, and final Act signed into law February 17]

Rosenbaum, S., Cartwright-Smith, L., Burke, T., Borzi, P., Goldstein, M. "Detailed Side-by-Side chart tracking the major health provisions in the Senate, House, and final Act signed into law February 17." Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, The George Washington University, Feb 18, 2009.

Shin, P., Finnegan, B. "Assessing the Need for On-Site Eye Care Professionals in Community Health Centers." The Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, Department of Health Policy, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC. Feb 2009.

Shin, P., Rosenbaum, S., Finnegan, B., Whittington, R. "Primary and Preventive Healthcare: A Critical Path to Healthcare Reform for Florida: The Role of Florida's FQHCs." The Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, Department of Health Policy, the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC. Jan 2009.

Roose, R., Hayashi, S., Cunningham, C. "Self-Management of Injection-Related Wounds Among Injecting Drug Users." Journal of Addictive Diseases, Issue No. 80. Vol. 28 (1) : 74. Journal of Addictive Diseases, Florence, KY. Jan 2009. (External Access)

Ku, L. "Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage to Legal immigrant Children and Pregnant Women: Implications for Community Health and Health Care for Tomorrow s Citizens." Issue No. 7. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Jan 2009.

Mullan, F. "Still Closing The Gap." Health Affairs, Issue No. 4. Vol. 28 (1182) : 1188. 2009. (External Access)

Shin, P., Finnegan, B. "Facts Sheets On Vision Care." National Commission on Vision and Health, Washington, DC. 2009. [

Access to Comprehensive Vision Care Services under SCHIP & Vision Exams for Children Prior to Entering School

]

Payne, P. "Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008: The Federal Answer for Genetic Discrimination." Health & Biomedical Law, Vol. 5 2009.

Stewart, A., Cox, M. "HPV Vaccine School Entry Requirements: Confronting the Myths, Misperceptions and Misgivings." Health and Biomedical Law, Vol. 4 311-332. 2009.

Stewart, A., Cox, M. "Community Integration for Students with Disabilities in a Post-Olmstead Environment." Harvard Health Policy Review, Issue No. 1. Vol. 10 36-40. 2009.

McPherson, T., Goplerud, E., Olufokunbi-Sam, D., Jacobus-Kantor, L., Lusby-Treber, K., Walsh, T. "Workplace alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT): A survey of employer and vendor practices." Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, Issue No. 3. Vol. 24 2009.

Attridge, M., Amaral, T., Bjornson, T., Goplerud, E., Herlihy, P., McPherson, T., Paul, R., Routledge, S., Sharar, D., Stephenson, D., Teems, L. "History and growth of the EAP field. EASNA Research Notes." EASNA Research Notes, 2009.

Attridge, M., Amaral, T., Bjornson, T., Goplerud, E., Herlihy, P., McPherson, T., Paul, R., Routledge, S., Sharar, D., Stephenson, D., Teems, L. "The workplace burden of mental health and substance abuse problems." EASNA Research Notes, 2009.

Attridge, M., Amaral, T., Bjornson, T., Goplerud, E., Herlihy, P., McPherson, T., Paul, R., Routledge, S., Sharar, D., Stephenson, D., Teems, L. "EAP effectiveness and ROI." EASNA Research Notes, Issue No. 3. Vol. 1 2009.

Taylor, M., David, S. "Restructuring Food Safety at HHS: Design and Implementation. Appearing at Appendix A in Trust for America's Health 2009 report, Keeping America's Food Safe: A Blueprint for Fixing the Food Safety System at the Department of Health and Human Services." GW SPHHS, Washington, DC. 2009. (External Access)