HEALTHY D.C. & ME LEADERSHIP COALITION Archive & Advisor's Corner
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Medicare Advantage and Consolidation’s New Frontier — The Danger of UnitedHealthcare for All | NEJM; (2) Updates on Chapman 6/27/24 Presentation to NIDA-OTIPO Staff
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Medicare Advantage and Consolidation’s New Frontier — The Danger of UnitedHealthcare for All | NEJM; (2) Updates on Chapman 6/27/24 Presentation to NIDA-OTIPO Staff Dear Colleagues, United Healthcare is the most dangerous company in America, even more dangerous than Boeing and, on a national scale, more lethal […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – WPFW Radio 89.3 – HEAL DC – “Corporatization of Health Care;” – Unity Health Care FQAC frontline medical providers fight “For-Profit” Wall Street insurers thru unionization
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – WPFW Radio 89.3 – HEAL DC – “Corporatization of Health Care;” – Unity Health Care FQAC frontline medical providers fight “For-Profit” Wall Street insurers thru unionization Dear Colleagues, This 2 part, 3 hour documentary series produced and aired by WPFW Radio 89.3 in Washington DC is a comprehensive crash course […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Just 25% of people battling OUD get medications aimed at helping them quit
Only a quarter of people who qualify for treatment receive opioid use disorder medication HealthDay (6/27, Mundell ) reports, “Just 25% of people battling opioid use disorder are getting medications aimed at helping them quit and potentially avoid an overdose, new data shows.” A survey found that “in 2022 a total of 3.7% of U.S. adults…were […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Buprenorphine Billing Dispute
GM Director Byrd, As you know our Medicaid patients have suffered an inordinate price paid in overdose deaths over the past 8 years due to fentanyl and other HPSOs. Finally on May 1, 2024 dosing for buprenorphine was raised to 32 mg without the continued interference of our Medicaid PBMs whose unnecessary prior authorizations historically […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Move over, Medicare Advantage — UnitedHealth, Centene flag higher Medicaid utilization concerns | Healthcare Dive
FYI, This article suggests indirectly how the 2023 Medicaid recertification process parallels our access to OUD care model and correlates with DC’s dramatic decrease in MOUD treatment especially since so many of our patients are continuously homeless or in distressed housing. Unfortunately the CME 2023 year end report with record deaths among the homeless (undomiciled […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – From Carceral Healthcare to Abolition Ethics: A Moral Obligation to Move…
To fully understand the increasingly inequitable healthcare outcomes for Black people in DC over the past decades you must view this Johns Hopkins anthropological video history on eugenics and racism in healthcare.Why for example: (1) are inmates in the DC Detention Center suing Unity Healthcare?(2) are so many primary care providers reportedly leaving Unity Healthcare?(3) […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Dr Vincent Gray – “Doctor of Philosophy in Public Service”
“If you do not understand “White Supremacy,” what it is and how it works, everything else that you understand will only confuse you.” Neely Fuller, Jr.
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – American Medical Association – May 9, 2024 – Follow the Money! Understanding the Structural Incentives for Inequity in Health Care and Beyond
American Medical Association – May 9, 2024 – Follow the Money! Understanding the Structural Incentives for Inequity in Health Care and Beyond
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – WPFW Radio MonMay20: DOCTORS UNIONIZE across US—standing up for patient care/against corporatization of health care
WPFW Radio MonMay20: DOCTORS UNIONIZE across US—standing up for patient care/against corporatization of health care
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Oversight needed on payers’ use of AI in prior authorization | American Medical Association
When it comes to access to buprenorphine and doses greater than 24 mgs to combat synthetics like fentanyl, statistics show that Black men like those in DC and other urban settings have borne the brunt of this regulatory implementation error!ECC Edwin C. Chapman, MDPrivate PracticeWashington, DC
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Precision Buprenorphine Dosing VS Contined Medication Diversion Hysteria
To Whom it may concern,It has now been 8 1/2 years since the 1st Washington Post story (Svrluga 1/13/2015) describing how prior authorizations, dosing caps, and limited access to buprenorphine was hurting opioid use treatment in Washington DC. The 2 attached articles on buprenorphine UNDER-DOSING and LACK of DIVERSION of this medication makes one wonder […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Prior Authorization” DC City Council Archives beginning in Nov 2012 !!
GM DC Council Health Chair Henderson, We thank you for holding hearings on “prior authorizations” in showing how both local and national insurers systematically undermine the health of the public under the guise of “safety, fraud, and abuse.” Your gentile, yet probing, questioning of local and national insurance representatives exposed how a small, invisible, closed […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Good Morning Dr. Chapman
Hi David,You did a fabulous job in covering so many of the nuances and ongoing aspects of local and national insurance company contributions to this access to treatment fiasco! Edwin C Chapman, MD
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Black communities lost 80 million years of potential life over last 2 decades
FYI,This is why we had to simultaneously create the “Howard University Urban Health Initiative” and “Leadership Council for Healthy Communities” over 10 years ago. The evolving opioid epidemic disparities are just a symptom of our broken public health system. Edwin C Chapman, MDFounding Member, Black Coalition Against Covid
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Letter of Recommendation for Dr. Adaku Ofoegbu
Good morning President Frederick and Provost Wutoh,Adaku Ofoegbu called on May 5, 2023 to notify me that she successfully defended her thesis and will be awarded the degree of Pharm.D at tomorrow’s Howard University 155th Commencement Convocation. Please see the 2 attached publications on which she provided major research input and graphic illustration design. It […]
From the Desk of Dr. Edwin C. Chapman, MD. – Continued Prior Authorizations & Dosing Caps for Buprenorphine in DC
FYI,A new study released today in the NEJM shows how Black patients on Medicare Advantage are dying at a faster rate from opioid/fentanyl overdoses due to patient/provider stigma and a number of well known structural issues likely related to racism, lack of insurance, homelessness, gentrification, and geographical access barriers. Not mentioned as a major problem […]