Hilltop Presents at 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Hilltop staff made four presentations at the 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research meeting held June 24-27, in Seattle, Washington.

Principal Policy Analyst Dolapo Fakeye, PhD, gave a podium presentation, titled Novel Methodology Identifying Target Sites for School-Based Health Centers toward Closing Health and Educational Equity Gap. In it, he discussed his approach of evaluating disparities in academic, health, sociodemographic, and risk behavior domains for every school in Maryland to identify schools and communities that may benefit from establishing an SBHC. Fakeye also presented a poster titled The Utility of Data from Long-Term Care Assessments for Reducing Repeated Hospital Encounters among Medicare-Medicaid Dually Eligible Beneficiaries that described a Hilltop study to identify patient indicators from standardized long-term services and supports (LTSS) assessments strongly associated with the risk of rehospitalization among adults discharged after a prior hospital episode.

Senior Policy Analyst Katherine Holmes, MPS, presented a poster titled Vascular Screening and Amputation in Diabetic Medicaid Participants in Maryland that described the findings of her research study to understand the prevalence of diabetes, peripheral artery disease (PAD), and amputations in Maryland Medicaid participants and gain a greater understanding of the relationship between diagnostic screening for PAD, diabetes, and amputations for different risk factors.

Executive Director, Cynthia Woodcock, MBA, presented a poster for Data Scientist Leigh Goetschius, PhD, titled Effect of Extended Postpartum Medicaid Coverage on Primary Care Utilization in Maryland, that described the findings of Goetschius’ study to determine whether extended postpartum Medicaid coverage impacts utilization of primary care providers (PCPs) and/or reduce racial disparities in postpartum PCP utilization.

June 30, 2023