New Billing Codes Offer Opportunity to Investigate Psychedelic Treatment
Ostrovsky A & Barnett B. Psychedelic Medicine. May 2024
Ostrovsky, Chien, Zemelman, et al. AJMC. Jan 2024
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.
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.
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.
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
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.