PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS! A Senate Briefing on the Cost-Savings of Reducing Health Disparities in Health Reform September 22, 2009 — 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Capitol Visitor Center, Senate Meeting Rooms (SVC) 208 & 209 In order to build support for health reform and inform congressional Members and staff about health and health care disparities, the [...]
SEPTEMBER HEALTH DATA TASK FORCE MEETING Guest presenters: Kalahn Taylor-Clark from the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform, Rita Carreon from America’s Health Insurance Plans, and Sarah Scholle from the NCQA will present and lead a discussion on the collection of racial and ethnic data by health plans. We will also be discussing the current political scene regarding disaggregated data collection and the [...]
OMO was one of 130 organizations that signed onto a letter addressed to President Obama and members of Congress urging them to leave intact the data collection provisions in health reform legislation. This letter was written in response to information and concerns about the possible negation of health disparities provisions that we have worked so [...]