Matt Zavadsky
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 2, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for EMS1
- Top 1M sites
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- Jul 15, 2026
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Congratulations, you won a grant! Now try not to give it back. (opens the original)
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For years, EMS leaders have complained that nobody will fund innovation. Want to start community paramedicine? Great idea. Who pays for it? Want to treat appropriate patients at home? Sounds wonderful. Who pays for it? Want to integrate EMS with primary care, behavioral health and telehealth? Fantastic. Please submit a proposal explaining how you’ll accomplish all of that with the money currently hidden somewhere between the station couch cushions. Then along came the $50 billion federal Rural H
Measuring what matters (opens the original)
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Notes from the Academy of International Mobile Healthcare Integration (AIMHI) webinar Measuring (& Improving) What Matters For decades, EMS has been exceptionally good at measuring activity. Response times, transport volumes, scene times and unit utilization can all be tracked with extraordinary precision. But those measures do not necessarily answer the question that matters most: Did the care we provided improve the patient’s outcome? That question was at the heart of the Academy of Internatio
It's time to redefine what great EMS looks like (opens the original)
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Every profession’s members eventually reach a point where they have to stop asking, “What have we always done?” and start asking, “What should excellence look like now?” For decades, we have measured ourselves largely by how quickly we arrived, how many patients we transported, and how many ambulances we could keep on the street. Those measures were appropriate for a profession that was still establishing itself. They helped build systems, justified resources and created accountability. Today, E
The 160% mirage: Why every EMS leader should read the Elevance Ambulance Report (opens the original)
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Every few years, a report comes along that doesn’t simply summarize data — it quietly begins shaping the conversation. The recently released Emergency Ground Ambulance Costs: Trends and Policy Implications, published by the Elevance Health Policy Institute, is one of those reports. On its surface, it appears to be another thoughtful policy analysis examining ambulance charges, commercial insurance payments and patient affordability. Many EMS leaders may skim the executive summary, nod politely a
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