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Comprehensive ACA and ADA Compliance Training

American Medical Compliance

The following Comprehensive Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance Training educates healthcare providers on the historical context of both Acts. The law has 3 primary goals: Make affordable health insurance available to more people. Not all states have expanded their Medicaid programs.

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Large Employers’ Focus on Prescription Drugs: Costs, Coupons and Communication

Health Populi

Co-pay accumulators are being discussed across health plan types, including government-sponsored plans like Medicare along with commercial health insurance programs. Federal government Blueprint for reducing prescription drug costs. adults think the government should end the tax break on advertising spending for drugs.

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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

Chartis found nine of these to be most important in predicting closure: average age of the plant, case mix index, government control status, percentage capital efficiency, percentage change total revenue, percentage occupancy, percentage outpatient revenue, system affiliation, and state-level Medicaid expansion status.

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to anticipate litigation that challenges our efforts, such as with the ACA or the upcoming attempt to “codify Roe v. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors. Absolutely.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

Looking forward, the Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll suggests what President Biden could do to bolster the Affordable Care Act, for which he was, after all, “present at the creation” when he uttered a famous R-rated phrase to President Obama that a quiet microphone couldn’t quite cover up. electorate is in favor.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. has the best health care system in the world. Today’s Financial Times features a poll that found two-thirds of U.S.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Campaign’s Final Days

Kaiser Health News

” She previously spent more than a decade reporting on the federal government, most recently covering surprise medical bills, drug pricing reform, and other health policy debates in Washington and on the campaign trail.

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