BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150834Z CREATED:20231103T153552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150834Z UID:25882-1381971600-1381971600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: How will rural Americans tap into the insurance marketplaces? DESCRIPTION:A recording of this webcast is now available.\n\nSpeakers’ PowerPoints:• Al Cross• Alan Morgan• Jim Doyle \n\nIn the launch of health insurance exchanges across the country\, one issue that has not been explored much is how the marketplaces will affect rural Americans. AHCJ will sponsor a webcast on this topic on Thursday\, Oct. 17\, at 2 p.m. Eastern. \nAbout rural Americans and insurance\nNearly one in five uninsured Americans live in rural areas\, and a greater proportion of rural residents lacks health insurance compared with the proportion of urban residents without health care coverage. One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to help make health insurance coverage affordable and accessible for the approximately 60 million Americans who live in rural areas. The federal Department of Health and Human Services has said the health insurance marketplaces will help to lower costs by increasing competition\, especially in the 29 mostly rural states where a single insurer currently dominates more than half of the health insurance market. \nWhether the ACA does in fact lower costs by increasing competition remains to be seen\, but lower costs is a significant goal given that studies show that one in five U.S. farmers faces medical debt and\, on average\, families pay about half of their health care costs out-of-pocket\, HHS said. \nSpeakers\nThe panelists will be Al Cross\, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky; Alan Morgan\, CEO of the National Rural Health Association; and Jim Doyle\, who covers the business of health care for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. AHCJ health insurance topic leader Joseph Burns will serve as moderator. \nResources\nSmall Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) \nAl Cross \nAlan Morgan \nJim Doyle \nJoseph Burns URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-how-will-rural-americans-tap-into-the-insurance-marketplaces/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131022T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131022T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150835Z CREATED:20231103T153552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150835Z UID:25883-1382403600-1382403600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Using fellowships to advance your freelance career DESCRIPTION:A recording of this webcast is now available.\nSpeakers’ PowerPoints:• Jeanne Erdmann• Michelle Levander• Rebecca Palpant Shimkets \nHere is AHCJ’s list of available fellowships. \n\nFreelancers often walk a fine line between doing work that pays the bills and doing work that helps them reach their creative and career goals. Reporting fellowships are a way to do both. There are a number of reporting fellowships out there\, and most are open to freelancers. But how do you make yourself stand out? How do you line up the clients\, the story ideas and the plans for doing a fellowship\, all while maintaining your other freelance work? In this webinar\, directors of two prominent health journalism fellowships – the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism and the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships – and a freelancer who is completing her first reporting fellowship with the Association of Health Care Journalists address: \n\n\nHow to find the right fellowship for you. \n\n\nThe basics of applying as a freelancer. \n\n\nHow to make yourself stand out. \n\n\nHow fellowships can move you in the direction of the career of your dreams. \n\n\nPanelists\nJeanne Erdmann is a former bone researcher turned freelance health and science writer. Her work has appeared in Cure\, Nature\, Nature Medicine\, Arthritis Today\, Science News\, Health\, the website for Scientific American\, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She has upcoming features in Women’s Health and Discover. The 2013 AHCJ Reporting Fellowship on Health Care Performance is her first fellowship and she’s enjoying every minute of it. For her project\, she’s writing about disparities in access to genetic counseling\, genetic testing\, and to follow up care. One of her stories will run in the November issue of Nature Medicine\, and two will go in Slate in November and December. In addition to freelancing\, Erdmann and colleague co-produce The Open Notebook\, a craft focused site for science journalists. \nRebecca Palpant Shimkets is assistant director for The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism of the Carter Center Mental Health Program\, which awards stipends to 10 professional journalists in the United States\, South Africa\, and Romania each year to produce a significant work on mental health or mental illnesses. The fellowship program has been sustained in New Zealand as the New Zealand Mental Health Media Grants Program through a partnership between Like Minds\, Like Mine and the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. Palpant Shimkets is an active participant on advisory boards and within national work groups related to stigma and accurate portrayals of mental illnesses in the media. \nMichelle Levander is founding director of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships and editor-in-chief of its website\, ReportingonHealth.org. Levander has reported in Asia\, Latin America and the United States for Time Magazine Asia\, The Asian Wall Street Journal and The San Jose Mercury News. During her journalism career in California\, Levander wrote about education\, business health policy\, worker health and safety\, and the culture of Silicon Valley. In Asia\, she reported from China\, India\, South Korea\, and Vietnam on the region’s fast-changing technology scene. She was founding editor of The Technology Journal at The Asian Wall Street Journal and Technology Editor at Time Asia. She has received journalism awards from the Overseas Press Club of America\, the Inter American Press Association\, and the Society of Professional Journalists. A former Inter American Press Association fellow\, she spent a year in Mexico\, studying at Mexico City’s El Colegio de Mexico and researching migrant culture from rural Mexico. \nModerator\nHeather Boerner is a San Francisco-based health and medical writer and editor with more than a dozen years of experience at newspapers\, websites and as a freelance health journalist\, with newspapers\, magazines\, custom publications and websites. She was the recipient of a  Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and winner of a 2011 Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. \nJeanne Erdmann \nRebecca PalpantShimkets \nMichelle Levander \nHeather Boerner URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-using-fellowships-to-advance-your-freelance-career/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150836Z CREATED:20231103T153553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150836Z UID:25884-1383008400-1383008400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Will families buy kids’ dental benefits on new exchanges? DESCRIPTION:Resources\nRecorded webcast \nSpeakers’ presentations (PDFs): \n\nColin Reusch\nEvelyn F. Ireland\nMary E. Foley\n\nTip sheet: Pediatric dental benefits on the health insurance exchangesHow is your state coping with the challenges of offering pediatric dental benefits? And will the benefits result in getting more kids the dental care they need? Oral health topic leader Mary Otto explains the issues and why states could be making some controversial decisions in implementing this part of the law. \nHow I did it: Covering pediatric dental benefitsAs Mary Otto wrote in a recent blog post\, Chad Terhune of the Los Angeles Times has done a good job of writing about the complexities of fitting pediatric dental benefits into California’s exchange. He shares his insights into the unfolding story and offers advice to AHCJ members who might want to see how this issue is playing out in their own states. \nHandouts:9-26-13_Joint-Dental-Org-Letter-to-Treasury-IRS.pdfACA-Dental-Coverage-Basics-Sept2013Update.pdfNADP-Issue-Brief-ACA-Dental-Tax-Credits-July2013.pdf \n\nApproximately 8.7 million children could gain extensive dental coverage through the ACA by 2018. For children\, the expansion will be almost evenly split among Medicaid (3.2 million)\, health insurance exchanges or marketplaces (3 million) and employer sponsored insurance (2.5 million). The inclusion of pediatric dental benefits in the health care reform law was hailed as a breakthrough by advocates working to get dental services better integrated into the nation’s larger health care system. \nNow states are tackling the challenges of offering dental benefits on their exchanges. What services are they offering? Are they affordable? Are families buying them and will they know how to use them? \nAs for Medicaid expansions\, how are qualifying kids who need coverage going to get it? \nDo states have strategies for guiding new families to care in places where there is a short supply of dentists? \nWe’ll get early assessments of whether health care reform is actually getting dental care to more kids\, through private insurance and Medicaid expansions. Panelists will include Colin Reusch of the Childrens Dental Health Project\, who will offer a national look\, as well as Evelyn Ireland\, executive director of the National Association of Dental Plans. Mary Foley\, executive director of the Medicaid CHIP State Dental Association\, will address how Medicaid expansions may be working in some states to get dental benefits to kids under the ACA. \nTo participate\n Click here and choose the “Enter as a Guest” option. Type your name in the box where indicated and then click on the “Enter Room” button. \nSpeakers:\nMary E. Foley\, R.D.H.\, M.P.H.\, has served as executive director of the Medicaid CHIP State Dental Association since 2009. The association works to develop and promote evidence-based oral health best practices and policies. Previously\, Foley was the dean of the Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She has worked as a project director at the Children’s Dental Health Project and as director of the Office of Oral Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. \nColin Reusch is a policy analyst at the Children’s Dental Health Project where he tracks implementation of health care reform\, researches and drafts issue briefs and policy documents\, and provides guidance and direction in identifying and pursuing policy initiatives as they relate to improving oral health. CDHP is a national nonprofit organization that works to achieve equity in children’s oral health. Prior to joining CDHP\, Reusch worked on young alumni programs at Eastern Kentucky University and local government policy issues at the Kentucky League of Cities. \nEvelyn F. Ireland is executive director of the National Association of Dental Plans\, which promotes and advances the dental benefits industry to improve consumer access to affordable\, quality dental care. Ireland has more than 40 years of experience in government and insurance. She worked for 10 years as an insurance regulator and for the Texas legislature as well as Congress. \nModerator: \nMary Otto is AHCJ’s oral health core topic leader\, keeping AHCJ members updated on the latest resources on dental care and policy. Otto\, an independent journalist\, got interested in covering oral health in 2007\, writing about the death of a child who had suffered complications from an untreated dental infection. At the time\, she was working at The Washington Post. She left that job in 2008 but has continued to write about oral health\, as a freelance writer for the Post\, drbicuspid.com\, and other publications. \nMary E. Foley \nColin Reusch \nEvelyn F. Ireland \nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-will-families-buy-kidsae-dental-benefits-on-new-exchanges/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR