SEMINARS 2026
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SEMINARS 2026
Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud
February 12, 2026, 5pm London UK time
This talk is about the effectiveness of pay-and-chase lawsuits and upfront regulations for combating health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled ambulance rides for patients traveling to and from dialysis facilities even though many did not satisfy Medicare’s criteria for receiving reimbursements. Using an identification strategy based on the staggered timing of regulations and lawsuits across the US, we find that adding a prior authorization requirement for ambulance reimbursements reduced spending much more than pursuing criminal and civil litigation did on their own. No evidence was found that prior authorization affected patients’ health.
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From Patient Experience to Evidence: Human-Centered Design in Women’s Health AI
February 26, 2026 5pm London UK time
Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH, MBA
Women’s health provides a practical case for examining how lived experience is incorporated into care pathways, platform design, and emerging AI-enabled tools.
In this seminar, Dr. Umbereen Nehal presents HER Heard as a use case for how community-based platforms can organize patient experience to support care navigation, service discovery, and decision-making. Drawing on clinician co-creation work, qualitative analyses of patient discourse, and ongoing platform development, the talk examines how lived experience can be structured for use in care and platform workflows without overstating evidentiary claims.
The session also discusses how agentic AI is being explored within women’s health platforms to support navigation and sensemaking, and how clinician participation in design informs the role these systems play. Using women’s health as a case, the talk highlights considerations for platform design, evidence translation, and the integration of AI into healthcare settings.