The CDC guidelines. Interview by C. Burns Roehrig

The chairman of the National Commission on AIDS provides her observations on the recent Centers for Disease Control conference on AIDS transmission between health care workers and patients.     

Disease prevention and the CDC. Interview by C. Burns Roehrig

As director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, William L. Roper, MD, leads the agency of the U.S. Public Health Service responsible for promoting health and preventing disease, injury and premature death. Before coming to CDC in March of 1990, Dr. Roper, a pediatrician, served as a health care adviser for two presidents throughout the 1980s and as head of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) from 1986 to 1989. Reflecting recently on the various roles he has played, Dr. Roper spoke with C. Burns Roehrig, MD, editor of The Internist: Health Policy in Practice about the CDC and its efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases.     

Examining what's ahead for payment reform. Interview by C. Burns Roehrig.

The principal researcher with Harvard's study of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale talks about the Physician Payment Review Commission's decision supporting a fee schedule based on the RBRVS.