Vulnerable Seniors Are at Risk With Looming Medicare Advantage Cuts—Income-Based Programs Can Minimize the Damage
Ostrovsky A & de Paula Hanika, A. AJMC. Oct 2024.
New Billing Codes Offer Opportunity to Investigate Psychedelic Treatment
Ostrovsky A & Barnett B. Psychedelic Medicine. May 2024
Roadmap to the Quadruple Aim—A Framework for Minimizing Physician Burnout During the Transition to Value-Based Care
Beschloss A, Ding A, & Ostrovsky A. AJMC. April 2024
Evaluation of Telehealth Services that are Clinically Appropriate for Reimbursement in the US Medicaid Population: Mixed Methods Study
Saravanakumar S, Ostrovsky A. J Med Internet Res 2024.
Breaking the Cycle: RSAT Program Improving Reentry in Arizona
Zobel Z, Ratner S, & Ostrovsky A. AJMC. Mar 2024.
Patient Flow and Reutilization of Crisis Services Within 30 Days in a Comprehensive Crisis System
Tomovic M, Balfour ME, Cho T, Prathap N, Harootunian G, Mehreen R, Ostrovsky A, & Goldman ML. Psychiatric Services. 27 Feb 2024.
Opportunities for CMS to improve healthcare access and equity through advancing technology-enabled startups and digital health innovations
Dasari, S., Mehreen, R., Baker Spohn, K. & Ostrovsky A. Nature Digital Medicine. 7, 23 (2024).
Ostrovsky, Chien, Zemelman, et al. AJMC. Jan 2024
Value Assessment and Integration Guide for Digital Therapeutics: A Mixed-Methods Study.
Ostrovsky A, Hibbs LE, & Nguyen B. Digital Therapeutic Alliance. June 2023
Accounting For Social Risks In Medicare And Medicaid Payments
Phillips RL, Ostrovsky A, Gilfillan R, Price D, & Bazemore AW. Health Affairs Forefront. March 27, 2023.
Psychedelic Medicine's Future Depends on Proactive Development of a Robust Medical Billing and Coding Strategy
Barnett BS & Ostrovsky A. Psychedelic Medicine.Mar 2023.14-17.
How Startups And Medicaid Can Collaborate To Improve Patient Outcomes
Norden J, Ostrovsky A, & Shah N.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Geographic Access to Autism Resources Across the US
Bennett M. Liu; Kelley Paskov, PhD; Jack Kent, MM; Maya McNealis, BS; Soren Sutaria; Olivia Dods; Christopher Harjadi; Nate Stockham, PhD; Andrey Ostrovsky, MD; Dennis P. Wall, PhD. JAMA. 2023;6(1):e2251182.
New Coding Modifier Offers Opportunity To Investigate Audio-Only Telehealth
Beschloss A, Van Ramshorst R, Bachireddy C, Chen C, & Ostrovsky A. Health Affairs Blog. Nov 18 2022.
Two workshops on Designing Future
State to Account
for Social Risks in
Medicare & Medicaid Payments
Philips R, Bazemore A, & Ostrovsky A. 2022. The workshops have been made possible through generous support from The Commonwealth Fund and Arnold Ventures.
Evaluation of an artificial intelligence-based medical device for diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
Megerian JT, Dey S, Ostrovsky A et al. Nature Digitam Medicine. May 2022. Health equity highlight: There was no evidence of device performance inconsistency across race/ethnicity as determined by examining the overlap of corresponding 95% CIs.
CMS prioritizing healing heart valves over bolstering brain health
Ostrovsky A & Crosland E. CMS prioritizing healing heart valves over bolstering brain health. Digital Therapeutic Alliance Blog. March 28, 2022.
Lessons for the Opioid Crisis—Integrating Social Determinants of Health Into Clinical Care
Hansen H, Jordan A, Plough A, Alegria M, Cunningham C, & Ostrovsky A. American Journal of Public Health 112, no. S2 (April 1, 2022): pp. S109-S111.
Adjusting Medicare Payments For Social Risk To Better Support Social Needs
Phillips RL, Ostrovsky A, & Bazemore AW. “Adjusting Medicare Payments For Social Risk To Better Support Social Needs.” Health Affairs Blog. June 1, 2021.
Guide for Future Directions for the Addiction and OUD Treatment Ecosystem
Waller RC, Clark KJ, Woodruff A, Glossa J, Ostrovsky A, and the Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Working Group of the Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic. Apr 2021.
Need for clarifying remote physiologic monitoring reimbursement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a respiratory disease case study
Jarrin R, Barrett MA, Kaye L et al. npj Digital Medicine. 4 (50). 2021.
Reimbursement for Digital Therapeutics in Medicaid
Ostrovsky A & Simko M. “Accelerating Science-Driven Reimbursement For Digital Therapeutics In State Medicaid Programs," Health Affairs Blog, October 30, 2020.
Design workshop to explore how to incorporate social risk into CMS payments
Phillips B, Bazemore, A, Pokras T, Evans H, McTigue K, Ostrovsky A. American Board of Family Medicine Foundation. 2021.
Tech Innovation for Duals
This project, funded by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), aimed to identify promising and emerging investment themes in the Duals space aligned with CHCF priority areas of improving access to care and serving complex patient populations. The project focused on technology innovations that support higher quality and lower cost of care for Duals.
Objective 1: Characterize the major challenges faced by Duals and the MCOs serving Duals that are addressable by technological innovation
Objective 2: Identify and characterize technology segments that are working to address the major challenges faced by Duals and the MCOs serving them
Objective 3: Identify gaps between current technology innovation and unaddressed challenges faced by Duals and the MCOs serving them
Telehealth for Improved Pediatric Mental Health and Speech Development
Barry C & Ostrovsky A. NJAAP. 2020.
Dismantling Buprenorphine Policy Can Provide More Comprehensive Addiction Treatment
Alex E. Woodruff, Mary Tomanovich, Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH, Sarah Wakeman, MD, & Andrey Ostrovsky, MD. Dismantling Buprenorphine Policy Can Provide More Comprehensive Addiction Treatment. National Academy of Medicine Perspectives. September 9, 2019.
Improving Access to Evidence-Based Medical Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Madras, B. K., N. J. Ahmad, J. Wen, J. Sharfstein, and the Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Working Group of the Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic. NAM Perspectives. Discussion Paper, Washington, DC. Apr 27, 2020.
The American Opioid Epidemic in Special Populations: Five Examples
Blanco C, Ali M, Beswick A, Drexler K, Hoffman C, Jones C, Wiley TRA, Coukell A, and the Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Working Group of the Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic. NAM Perspectives. Discussion Paper, Washington, DC. Oct 26, 2020.