William E. Golden

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William E. Golden's research centers on health policy and quality improvement, with a particular focus on healthcare payment reform and patient-centered medical home programs. He has extensive experience directing statewide quality improvement initiatives for Medicare and Medicaid programs. For a decade, he served as Medical Director for Arkansas Medicaid, where he led the Payment Improvement Initiative, which received a $42 million grant for testing payment reforms. In this capacity, he was instrumental in designing and implementing numerous clinical episodes and a statewide Patient Centered Medical Home program. He also directed Arkansas Medicaid's hospital pay-for-performance program, which demonstrated success in reducing early elective deliveries. Previously, Golden spent 16 years as Vice President for Clinical Quality at the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care, designing statewide quality improvement programs. His current scholarly metrics include an h-index of 13, with 208 total publications and 680 total citations. He has collaborated on multiple publications with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Benjamin S. Teeter, Jacob T. Painter, Ryan K. Dare, and Holly Maples.

Research Overview

William E. Golden, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where he served as director of the division of general internal medicine for nearly 20 years. He is currently the Medical Director, Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology. For the past decade, he was Medical Director of Arkansas Medicaid and was the lead clinician for the program's Payment Improvement Initiative which has received a $42 million CMS payment reform testing grant from CMMI. In this role, he has shaped the design and implementation of over a dozen clinical episodes and a statewide Patient Centered Medical Home program. He is also directed Arkansas Medicaid's hospital pay for performance program which reduced early elective deliveries over 90%. Previously, he served for 16 years as Vice President for Clinical Quality of the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care for which he has designed numerous statewide quality improvement for Medicare and Medicaid. He is currently a member of the NQF Appeals Committee. A past member of the HCP-LAN Guiding Committee, he co-chaired a workgroup that released a white paper for alternative payment mechanisms for primary care that foretold the CMS model of Primary Care First. A past Chair the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Golden served on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum from 2001-2004 and was President of the American Health Quality Association from 1997-2000. He has been a methodologist member of the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Measurement for over a decade. Among his awards and recognitions, he received the national James Q. Cannon award for physician leadership in clinical quality improvement (2001), Mastership in the American College of Physicians (2008), the Alfred Stengel Memorial Award for service to the American College of Physicians (2011), and UAMS Public Health School Award for Leadership in Public Health (2014).

Metrics

• h-index: 13
• Publications: 208
• Citations: 680