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:20040404T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20041031T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20050403T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20051030T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20060402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20061029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060613T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060613T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150811Z CREATED:20231025T144824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150811Z UID:23334-1150160400-1150160400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Crisis in America�s Emergency Rooms DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Kaiser Family Foundation \nThe webcast\, podcast and transcript is available. \nHospital emergency rooms are under siege. Some inner city hospitals are losing on-call specialists to treat severely injured patients or must pay high prices to keep them. In some parts of the country\, ambulance diversions are continuing. So are wallet biopsies which telegraph to hospitals who can pay and who cannot. Changes to Medicaid mandated by the Deficit Reduction Act could affect the care those on Medicaid will receive. Technology and emergency room care will become more expensive\, raising the question: “Who will fund this place of last resort as the move to market-driven health care rushes ahead? “ \nPanelists:\n\n\n Carmela Coyle\, senior vice president for policy\, American Hospital Association \n\n\n Nicole Lurie\, M.D.\, senior natural scientist and the Paul O’ Neill Alcoa Professor of Policy Analysis at RAND. \n\n\n Brent Asplin\, M.D.\, head of emergency medicine at Regions Hospital in St. Paul\, Minn.\, and is vice chairman of the emergency medicine department at the University of Minnesota. \n\n\n Moderator: Trudy Lieberman\, director of Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union and president of AHCJ board of directors. \n\n\n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-crisis-in-americai%c2%bds-emergency-rooms/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20051101T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20051101T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150807Z CREATED:20231025T144825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150807Z UID:23335-1130806800-1130806800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Understanding Medicare Part D DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Kaiser Family Foundation \nThe live webcast is over\, but still viewable on the Kaiser Family Foundation's Web site. \n Be prepared to help your readers\, viewers and listeners. Tune in to a special health care roundtable focusing on the new Medicare prescription drug benefit known as Part D\, designed to help Medicare beneficiaries pay for their medications. \nThis webcast – a partnership between AHCJ and the Kaiser Family Foundation – will allow you to ask questions via e-mail and telephone. Or just listen and learn. Among the questions our experts will address: \n\nWho should sign up for the benefit? \nAt what point does it make financial sense not to sign up? \nWhat are the options people have for covering their prescription costs? \nHow do drug plans vary? \nWhat kind of coverage will be available to fill the so-called donut hole? \nHow do people fit the new benefit with health insurance they already have?\n\nModerator:\nTrudy Lieberman\, director\, Center for Consumer Health Choices\, Consumers Union and president of AHCJ \nPanelists:\nJuliette Cubanski\, senior policy analyst\, Kaiser Family Foundation \nTom Paul\, chief pharmacy officer for Ovations\, a UnitedHealth Group Company and president of Pharmacy Solutions \nVicki Gottlich\, attorney\, Center for Medicare Advocacy URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-understanding-medicare-part-d/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20050209T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20050209T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T150804Z CREATED:20231025T144825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150804Z UID:23336-1107910800-1107910800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webcast: Reporting on Health Savings Accounts DESCRIPTION:This roundtable — a partnership between the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Kaiser Family Foundation — focuses on health savings accounts and related approaches advocated by the Bush Administration and others to address rising health care costs and lack of coverage for the uninsured. Among the questions our experts will address are: How do these accounts really work? What are the differences among the types of accounts being offered? Who will benefit from them? Who won't? What effect are they likely to have on the insurance market? Will they really curb the rising cost of health care? Will they lower the number of uninsured? \nSee a webcast of the event or get a transcript. \nModerator: \n\nTrudy Lieberman\, director\, Center for Consumer Health Choices\, Consumers Union and president\, AHCJ\n\nPanelists: \n\nGary Claxton\, vice president\, Kaiser Family Foundation and director\, Health Care Marketplace Project\nMila Kofman\, assistant research professor\, Health Policy Institute\, Georgetown University\nDoug Kronenberg\, chief strategy officer\, Lumenos URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webcast-reporting-on-health-savings-accounts/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR