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Meet Our Experts!
Abt Global’s health services research team participated in the AcademyHealth 2024 Annual Research Meeting, the leading health policy event of the year. Our experts shared their latest research and methods that are advancing healthcare policies and programs.
Thanks to all who stopped by our booth 111/113 to chat with our experts or snapped a professional headshot.
Abt Podium Presentations
Session: New Evidence from Medicare Payment and Delivery Changes
Location: Room 328-329 Level 300
Monday, July 1 | 8:00 am - 9:15 am
Title: Impact of the Oncology Care Model (OCM) on Medicare Payments, Utilization, and Care Delivery: From Start to Finish
Presenter: Derek Hoodin
Session: Optimizing Guideline-Concordant Prescribing and Clinical Management
Location: Room 336, Level 300
Monday, July 1 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Title: Prescribing Practices before and after Pain Management, Opioid Prescribing, and Opioid Use Disorder Evidence-Based Guideline Implementation in Health Systems: Findings from a Mixed-Methods Study
Presenter: Sarah Shoemaker-Hunt
Abt Poster Presentations
Location: Halls A-B, Level 100
Sunday, June 30 | 8:00am – 9:15am
POSTER ID A-217: Building Statewide Heart Health Capacity in Primary Care: Baseline Findings from the Quality Improvement Efforts in AHRQ’s Evidencenow Building State Capacity Grants
Presenter: Jennifer Dolatshahi
POSTER ID A-229: Impact of Minimum Nurse Staffing Requirements on Staffing Levels, Quality, and Safety in Massachusetts Nursing Homes
Presenter: Alan White
POSTER ID A-100: Impact of the Oncology Care Model on End-of-Life Care
Presenter: Matt Trombley
POSTER ID A-80: How Does the Use of High-Cost Treatments Impact Utilization of the Fee-for-Service Medicare Hospice Benefit?
Presenter: Michael Plotzke
POSTER ID A-249: Patient Care Experience and Change in Functional Status Under the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced Model
Presenter: Sharmini Radakrishnan
Sunday, June 30 | 5:00pm – 6:15pm
POSTER ID B-262: Patient-Reported Outcomes from the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Evaluation Among Hip Fracture Patients
Presenter: Matt Trombley
POSTER ID B-208: Home Health Agency Profitability and Access to Home Health Care
Presenter: Matthew Forsstrom
POSTER ID B-196: Trends in Medicare Beneficiary Payments for Non-Hospice Services during Hospice Elections
Presenter: T.J. Christian
Monday, July 1 | 9:30am – 10:45am
POSTER ID C-367: Assessing Equity in Patient-Reported Outcomes in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced) Model
Presenter: Sharmini Radakrishnan
POSTER ID C-377: Differences in Outcomes By Race/Ethnicity in Health Systems Implementing Evidence-Based Pain Management, Opioid Prescribing, and Opioid Use Disorder Guidelines between 2015 and 2019
Presenter: Sarah Shoemaker-Hunt
POSTER ID C-273: Coordination with Primary Care Providers in the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced Model
Presenter: Caroline Logan
POSTER ID C-385: Impact of the Oncology Care Model (OCM) on Delivery of Equitable Care for Historically Underserved Patients Based on Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty
Presenter: Matt Trombley
POSTER ID C-75: Sustaining Cooperatives to Support Statewide Heart Health Capacity in Primary Care: A Broadening Definition of Sustainability
Presenter: Ellen Childs
Monday, July 1 | 5:00pm – 6:15pm
POSTER ID D-229: Designing Pediatric Medicaid Alternative Payment Models in the Integrated Care for Kids Model
Presenter: Morgan Michaels
POSTER ID D-212: Recapping the First Two Years of the Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model
Presenter: Jared Hite
POSTER ID D-348: Examining Health Literacy Among Home Health Patients – a First Look
Presenter: Mariana Sarango Cancel
POSTER ID D-325: A First Look at Assessing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in Home Health Using OASIS-E
Presenter: Sarah Miner
POSTER ID D-290: Early Results of Needs Assessment and Risk Stratification in the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model
Presenter: Kimberly Groover
POSTER ID D-258: Never-COVID: Assessing Protective Factors Against Sars-Cov-2 Infection in a High-Exposure-Risk Occupational Cohort
Presenter: Robin Bloodworth
Special Events
Contract Research Networking Breakfast
Sunday, June 30 | 7:00 am - 8:00 am
Location: Johnson 1st Floor Hilton
Contract Research Job Fair
Monday, July 1 | 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
Location: Peale 1st Floor Hilton
Professional Headshots
Sunday, June 30
Location: Abt Booth 111/113
Career Connections Office Hours
Monday, July 1 | 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: Abt Booth 111/113
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