Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

I’ve explored the mine of insights the GWI team has unearthed for the new year, and will focus on one that has fast-grown as the converging forces of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic recession and household financial downturn, and rising anxiety for social and civil justice have, together, wreaked havoc on our mental and behavioral health.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The proposed rule back tracked CMS’s 2012 decision to apply a FFS Adjuster to extrapolated contract-level RADV audits. Under the 2012 announcement, the FFS adjuster was intended to account for any effect of erroneous diagnosis codes in the data from Medicare Parts A and B that are used to calibrate the MA risk adjustment model.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sebelius (2012) , which upheld the Affordable Care Act while declaring the individual mandate a violation of the Commerce Clause. They elevate these cases as proof of general liberalism in the Court’s interpretations of federal power to regulate health and the obsoleteness of Dent and Hawker. Oregon , and NFIB v.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012. Before the pandemic, 19% of physicians said they were somewhat or very unhappy in their work-life; after COVID-19, this rose to 34%. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Consider that more seniors are aging at home or in their family members’ homes during the pandemic, especially as COVID-19 deaths in senior living facilities began to climb and facilities tightened visitor restrictions to avoid the spread of infection. Today, nearly 48 million people provided unpaid care for adults in 2020, up 16.6%

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

” Drug spending by the state for its Medicaid , prison, state hospital, and other programs had been climbing 20% a year since 2012, so the first-term Democrat issued an executive order requiring California to make its own generic drugs and forge partnerships with counties and other states to buy drugs in bulk.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. As CMIO of Urban Health Plan, a Bronx-based Federally-Qualified Health Center, Connelly-Flores has worked to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates via texting campaigns, online vaccine registration and other patient engagement projects focused on one of the areas in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 21, 2023

public investment in the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Eroding Judicial Deference to the FDA – Consequences for Public Health. Timing of Confirmatory Trials for Drugs Granted Accelerated Approval Based on Surrogate Measures From 2012 to 2021. JAMA Health Forum. Value Health.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

One example is partnering with Healthy Together, which uses the agency's API to provide veterans with secure mobile access to their health records. FDA authorizes at-home COVID-19 tests from Amazon, Roche, Siemens. At the start of the year, the Biden Administration authorized a handful of new at-home COVID-19 tests for use.

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SQA

AUGUST 2, 2021

ISO/TS 22421 was developed by technical committee ISO/TC 198, Sterilization of Health Care Products, whose secretariat is held by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ISO’s member for the USA. COVID-19 Response: Freely Available ISO Standards, 18 June 2021.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register from October-December 2021: On October 4, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. Effective October 19, 2021. 19; repealed N.J.A.C.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JULY 22, 2022

509(a), Governor Murphy issued an Executive Order updating and clarifying timeframes for requiring covered workers at health care facilities and high-risk congregate settings to be up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, including having received a booster shot. 3:19-cv-14228-BRM-LHG (D.N.J. See Executive Order No.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2023

Becerra is mostly read as a religious freedom case that pits the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) against the promotion of public health goals, similar to what we saw in the last few years of legal challenges to COVID-19 mitigation measures. Yet, ever since the U.S. It essentially de-medicalizes PrEP.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The CARES Act was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020, to ensure that every American has access to the care they need during the COVID-19 pandemic and to address the economic fallout from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19. HIPAA Changes in 2020/2021 Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Remain in Effect.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Republicans have already reconstituted a committee to investigate covid-19, although, unlike the Democrats’ panel, this one is likely to spend time trying to find the origin of the virus and track where federal dollars may have been misspent. has spent the covid funding that Congress has doled out and appropriated.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

29, 2024), would have been pending if filed sooner was opened back in 2012. In addition, the decision affirmed the dismissal of a case against FDA over orders related to pediatric authorizations for two COVID vaccines. A year ago, we marveled that litigation over COVID vaccine policies was still on-going. Boston Sci.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 4, 2024

2012), we hailed it as the best decision of 2012. So we do have comments on the bizarre complaint that the Texas attorney general recently filed over COVID-19. The complaint, brought under the Texas consumer protection statute, sued a major manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccine that was used to control the recent pandemic.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 11, 2023

Its staff has a broad view tied to public health considerations, available drug and non-drug treatment options, data that may not be publically available, and decades of experience with the subject matter. Brief at 19-20 (quoting Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs v. This also includes “ology” confusion. Sebelius , 671 F.3d

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