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Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: DEA To Extend Telehealth Flexibilities | CON Denials in Missouri and Alaska

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State officials rejected Alaska Regional Hospital’s CON application to build a freestanding ED in South Anchorage, finding that the facility would neither improve access to quality care nor reduce patient costs. An $89M project obtained government approval to modernize facilities at HSHS St. South Carolina Gov.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 million people in 2017.

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Health Provider News

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Acquisition of BCBSLA Paused a Second Time It was the biggest health care deal in Louisiana history.

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Loving Wegmans and Amazon, Hating on the US Government: the Axios Harris Poll 100 in 2019

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Government (#100). Government is the worst “company” in America according to “The Citizens of America,” in the words of Axios and Harris Poll. Each of these companies has had their challenging PR moments in 2018 regarding leadership, privacy gaffes, service levels, and social issues. Government.

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Health Provider News

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Danny Jacobs’ contract, but not without dissent Between a financial downturn and staffing shortages, Oregon hospitals are feeling the squeeze With Oregon Health Plan review underway, hundreds of callers a day give up on state’s helpline PeaceHealth to cut beds, nurses at Sacred Heart RiverBend PENNSYLVANIA 2 St.

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NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T in Indiana aging-in-place work. The office hasn’t moved. Why is UNC now charging more?

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Health Care Providers Are More Politically Engaged in the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

Then in 2018, two years into President Donald Trump’s four-year term, the mid-term elections drove U.S. voters to the election polls…including health care providers. But health care drove millions of voters to the polls in the 2018 U.S. Until 2016, physicians’ voting rates in U.S.

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