by Rick Ybarra | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Hogg Blog
There has been much discussion in health reform about using data to determine program effectiveness leading to improved population health. Questions like which programs work and which don’t, and which programs are making real impact, are being asked and answered...
by Rick Ybarra | Mar 25, 2016 | Blog, Hogg Blog
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” – Yogi Berra On that note, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) recently published an important brief highlighting exciting and innovative payment reform efforts designed to improve health care and lower costs in...
by Rick Ybarra | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog, Hogg Blog
A recent policy brief published in the Journal of American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM) reports that, although an increasing number of primary care physicians are incorporating nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians’ assistants (PAs) into their patient care...
by Rick Ybarra | Feb 12, 2016 | Blog
A recent post on the Huffington Post titled The Costs of Not Caring: How to Fix Our Broken Mental Health Care System highlights the significant reductions to state mental health budgets over the past years and the subsequent impact to people with various mental health...
by Rick Ybarra | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Hogg Blog
Happy 2016! It is an exciting time indeed! Presidential debates, political agendas in play, international and domestic issues front and center, major decisions that will impact the lives of all Americans…and none more important than health care reform! I’d like to...