This webinar provides an in-depth look at Section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act and its implications for disparities research. David Meyers of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will point to specific language that impacts racial/ethnic data collection. Commentary will be provided by JosΘ J. Escarce, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles/RAND.
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Faculty: David Meyers, M.D., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; José J. Escarce, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles/RAND
Format: On-demand, streaming presentation with voiceover
Duration: 90 min.
Overview: This webinar provides an in-depth look at Section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act and its implications for disparities research. David Meyers of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will point to specific language that impacts racial/ethnic data collection. Commentary will be provided by José J. Escarce, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles/RAND.
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David Meyers, M.D. is the Director of the Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Meyers has served as the Center's Director since February 2008. Prior to this appointment, he helped to direct the Center's Practice-Based Research Network initiatives, served as a Medical Officer for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and as a Project Officer for the Health Information Technology Portfolio. Before joining AHRQ in 2004, he practiced family medicine, including maternity care, in a community health center in southeast Washington, D.C., and directed the Georgetown University Department of Family Medicine's practice-based research network, CAPRICORN. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed a family practice residency at Providence Hospital/Georgetown University. After residency, he completed fellowship training in primary care health policy and research in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University. Dr. Meyers serves on DHHS work groups coordination the implementation of Affordable Care Act provisions related to prevention and health care workforce and co-leads the team charged with implementing section 4302 addressing health care disparities through the collection and reporting of data
José J. Escarce, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he serves as an Associate Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and Senior Natural Scientist at RAND. Dr. Escarce is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population. He previously served on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy, Research, and Evaluation. He has also been very active in the National Academies, serving on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery, the IOM Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, and the National Research Council Panel on Hispanics in the U.S., among others. He currently serves on the IOM Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice and the IOM Roundtable on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. He is also co-editor-in-chief of Health Services Research, one of the official journals of AcademyHealth.