Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

Today’s pandemic destabilized hospital care because hospitals were neither coordinated nor managed systemically in order to meet population demands. We also recognize that policymakers, specifically the U.S. president and state governors, enjoy emergency powers to contain behavior that otherwise would cause infections to spread.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Considering these substantial consequences for patients’ access to mental health care, developing solutions to prevent ghost networks is critical. Federal legislative solutions The federal No Surprises Act , approved in 2021, mandates that health insurers update the information in their provider directory at least every 90 days.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The spending typically includes charity care — broadly defined as free or discounted care to eligible patients. But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research. in charity care, while for-profit hospitals provided $3.80.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Addressing algorithmic bias at the federal level Following a promise by the Biden Administration in 2022 to conduct an “evidence-based examination of health care algorithms and racial and ethnic disparities,” the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), began a systematic review last year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Now that hygiene protocols are well-established in health care providers’ settings, at least two other major consumer barriers to seeking care must be addressed: cost and access. One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

How Nonprofit Hospitals, Health Systems Compensate Executives. Encompass Health’s home health unit attracts acquisition interest-sources. COVID-19 cases dwindle, but Alabama lawmakers continue push for public health reform. State health officer reflects on progress 2 years into pandemic.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By Nicole Huberfeld Once again, health law has become a vehicle for constitutional change , with courts hollowing federal and state public health authority while also generating new challenges. In administrative law disputes, a critical aspect of public health law, clear statement rules enforce separation of powers.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Elizabeth Weeks The most promising path forward in public health is to continue recognizing federal authority and responsibility in this space. Historically, public health law primacy resides with states via their core, Tenth Amendment reserved police powers to address residents’ health, safety, and welfare.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

conservative movement, convened by the Council for National Policy, organized a campaign to fight against public health measures nearly a year before vaccines or outpatient treatments were available to the general population. In early January 2021, amid the country’s largest wave of deaths during the pandemic, only five U.S.

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