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DIRECTOR'S CORNER

In its June 2010 report to Congress, MedPAC called for GME payment transparency. The Graham Center has a new tool to help: Search for your teaching hospital’s residency training and related payments.

Income Inequality and Mortality

There is new evidence showing the link between income inequality and premature death. “Fair Society, Healthy Lives” reports that inequalities in England result in the loss, in total, of between 1.3 and 2.5 million extra years of life. “Avertable Deaths Associated with Household Income in Virginia,” shows that more than 24 percent of deaths in Virginia would not have occurred if the entire state had the same mortality rates as the affluent regions.

Access Reports

Learn about the challenges facing America's safety net in a series of reports by the Graham Center and the National Association of Community Health Centers:

Access Denied: A look at America's medically disenfranchised

Access Granted: The primary care payoff

Access Transformed: Building a primary care workforce for the 21st century

What influences student & resident choices?

There is increasing interest in assuring sustaining healing relationships through primary care. Yet, the U.S. does not actively influence the number, type, or geographic distribution of its physician workforce. Equitable access to health care is at risk without well-informed, evidence-based policies and incentives.

Specialty and geographic distribution of the physician workforce: What influences medical student and resident choices?

White Paper

The House of Representatives has proposed to use Federal funds to raise Medicaid payments rates for primary care physicians to those of Medicare (Section 1721 of HR 3200). The Graham Center estimated the effects on total gross revenue of the average physician nationally and the total gross revenue of the average family physician in each state. The white paper shows the widely variable but important impact.

Read the report:

Estimated effects of Sec. 1721 of draft bill HR 3200

Health Professional Shortage Area Mapper

Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) are counties or portions of counties in the United States that have the lowest ratio of physicians to population. Learn more about primary care HPSAs in your area, and determine whether your practice might be eligible for bonus payments or other policy incentives based on location in a HPSA using our new tool:

Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) Mapper

THE ROBERT GRAHAM CENTER exists to...

Improve individual and population health by enhancing the delivery of primary care.

The Center aims to achieve this mission through the generation or synthesis of evidence that brings a family medicine and primary care perspective to health policy deliberations from the local to international levels.

themes

Guiding the work of the Robert Graham Center

The Value of Primary Care

Health Access and Equity

Delivery and Scope of the Medical Home

Healthcare Quality and Safety