Compliance Now

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By: Megan Diehl, Manager of Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting Many sponsors of fully insured health plans either already have or will soon receive checks from their insurance carriers, along with a notice informing them that the review is a medical loss ratio (MLR) rebate. Plan sponsors should receive these checks by September 30, 2023.

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Compliance Now

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By: Megan Diehl, Manager of Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting Many sponsors of fully insured health plans either already have or will soon receive checks from their insurance carriers, along with a notice informing them that the review is a medical loss ratio (MLR) rebate. Plan sponsors should receive these checks by September 30, 2023.

Health Care Reform 100

Health Care Reform Governance Compliance 100

Compliance Now

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many sponsors of fully insured health plans either already have or will soon receive checks from their insurance carriers, along with a notice informing them that the check is a medical loss ratio (MLR) rebate. Plan sponsors should receive these checks by September 30, 2022. Allocation options include: Paying affected employees directly.

Health Care Reform 100

Health Care Reform Governance 100

Compliance Now

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many sponsors of fully insured health plans either already have or will soon receive checks from their insurance carriers, along with a notice informing them that the check is a medical loss ratio (MLR) rebate. Plan sponsors should receive these checks by September 30, 2022. Allocation options include: Paying affected employees directly.

Health Care Reform 100

Health Care Reform Governance 100

Bill of Health

MARCH 3, 2022

The Government is considering possibly wide ranging tort reform. The debate should be careful not to focus primarily on economics and cost containment. However, it is considered important that negligence and wrongdoing are recognised and equally that these experiences are not repeated for others.”.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Some scholars have interpreted this to mean that the federal government has the right under the Commerce Clause to regulate all medical licensure. Gupta cites the Dormant Commerce Clause doctrine, a court-invented principle which allows the federal government to strike down state laws deemed excessively burdensome to interstate trade.

Licensing 130

Licensing Telemedicine Governance Federal Policy 130

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

3103 ) were integrated into it, that the Kassebaum-Kennedy Act bore any resemblance to the final version of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. However, when HIPAA was passed, the standards governing health care data, patients´ rights, and the flow of information were still several years away.

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HIPAA Fraud Health Insurance Health Care Reform 136

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

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.

Hospitals 109

Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Health Care Reform 109

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Hannah Rahim Many mental health provider directories for private and public insurance plans contain inaccurate or outdated provider information , which creates a misleading illusion of accessible care. These ghost networks result in many patients being unable to access essential mental health care.

Governance 148

Governance Medicaid Medicaid Medicare 148

Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

American banks are now governed by a reformed regulatory framework that enables, and sometimes requires, them to cooperate and coordinate appropriate systemic responses. The post Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation appeared first on Bill of Health. Schwarcz is Stanley A.

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COVID-19 Hospitals Governance Public Health 130

The Health Law Firm

JULY 30, 2012

China's increasing health concerns for its aging population, combined with the government's proposed health care reform, has generated much optimism in multi-national corporations concerning the future of China's health care industry. By Miles Indest.

Health Care Reform 40

Health Care Reform Governance 40

Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

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.

Governance 79

Governance Health Care Reform FDA ACA 79

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case. One of the key goals of health care reform, going back to HIPAA in 1996 and particularly the HITECH act of 2009, is to allow the free flow of patient data in a secure and privacy-preserving way.

US Department of Health and Human Services 84

US Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Reform Doctors Hospitals 84

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The share of health care spending sponsored/financed by Federal, State and local governments will grow to 2027, reaching 47%. Thus, by 2027, health spending will be roughly split by public and private sector sources of payment.

Medicare 91

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Advocacy and Policy Reform : Advocacy efforts should target policy reform to ensure that behavioral health services are equitable and accessible to all. Policymakers should prioritize the needs of dually diagnosed patients in health care reform initiatives. Bernard DiCasimirro Dr. Bernard DiCasimirro, D.O.,

Health Care Reform 104

Health Care Reform Health Services Administration Licensing Health Outcomes 104

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For several decades, health care reformers have been advocating “fee for value” or value-based care, which supposedly rewards long-term results instead of individual encounters. Ultimately, the study found small reductions to overall health care costs. ” Remote patient monitoring.

COVID-19 117

COVID-19 Doctors Telemedicine Medicare 117

Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. .” And that’s what’s happening with these reforms.”

Health Care Reform 52

Health Care Reform COVID-19 Health Outcomes Governance 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Americans’ mentions of “government” as a top U.S.

Single Payer Health Care 54

Single Payer Health Care Medical Billing Health Care Reform Governance 54

American Medical Compliance

APRIL 17, 2024

Understanding the ACA The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to as the Affordable Care Act or “ACA” for short, is the comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010. The law has 3 primary goals: Make affordable health insurance available to more people.

ADA 52

ADA ACA Compliance Health Care Reform 52

Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

. “Hospital system pricing is closely related to this issue, as consolidations drive up already inordinate health care costs.” Mason’s condition improved after he received a service dog trained to help people with autism, among other community services, Narsh says. “This is bad public policy.

Hospitals 61

Hospitals Medical Billing Health Care Reform Health Insurance 61

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

EHR vendors at first had no incentive to support third-party access, although they were urged to do so by health care reformers such as SMART. A health record was an archive, assiduously updated at patient visits but rarely consulted. But the analytics side of health grew and grew.

US Department of Health and Human Services 73

US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Health Care Reform Hospitals 73

Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

Still, the Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog agency, argues that community benefit is poorly defined. “They’re not requirements,” said Jessica Lucas-Judy, a GAO director. “It’s not clear what a hospital has to do to justify a tax exemption.

Hospitals 72

Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medical Billing 72

Bill of Health

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Jon Larsen and Sterling Johnson There is a well-established whole of government response to drug policing centered around the “war on drugs.” Policy changes must be considered to replace acknowledged failures and reimagine the whole of government response to drug policing.

US Department of Health and Human Services 265

US Department of Health and Human Services Governance Public Health Health Care Reform 265

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With support from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), public health law experts from Indiana University McKinney School of Law and the Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research at the Beasley School of Law recently embarked on a systematic review of U.S.

Governance 174

Governance Public Health Telemedicine COVID-19 174

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

By Hannah Rahim Algorithms used in health care have the potential to improve health outcomes but are susceptible to racial bias , which can have detrimental consequences for minority populations. Involvement of state governments State Attorneys General in California and D.C.

FDA 163

FDA Governance Public Health Hospitals 163

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so. Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries.

Public Health 279

Public Health COVID-19 Governance COVID-19 Vaccine 279

Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

The commodification of care, its profits dependent on underpaying workers, led to the scarcity of care that my clients, and more baby boomers every day, experience. Care worker organizing for higher wages and better treatment has been on the rise in recent years.

Nursing Homes 130

Nursing Homes Nurses COVID-19 Medicaid 130

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

health care system not seen since the 1968 creation of Medicare, coupled with decreased reimbursement due to health care reform. Consumers will be facing greater medical price inflation in 2023 for health insurance plans, based on the latest forecast from WTW.

COVID-19 54

COVID-19 Prescription Drug Pricing Health Insurance Health Care Reform 54

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This replacement, “neoliberalism,” has as its central tenet that markets are, in all ways and at all times, superior to government in allocating societal resources. Since markets are inherently individualistic and the basic unit of analysis of public health is the community, this ideology was and is antithetical to our goals.

Public Health 265

Public Health Health Care Reform ACA COVID-19 265

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Additionally, the Government declared COVID-19 a “ formidable disease ” under the Public Health Act on April 1, 2020. The Minister of Health duly issued Rules aimed at the control or suppression of COVID-19, in terms of his powers under this Act.

COVID-19 308

COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Informed Consent Public Health 308

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

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.

COVID-19 117

COVID-19 Health Insurance ACA Medicaid 117

Kaiser Health News

MARCH 3, 2022

Still, she said, “I think one year, knowing that this is government stuff, may be the best we can hope for. However, Grabowski, noting the industry’s skill at staying steps ahead of the government and weak agency enforcement, said that “it sounds like a great objective, but it’s going to be really challenging.”

Nursing Homes 90

Nursing Homes Nurses Medicare Medicare 90

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Instead, we should affirmatively consider what brain-forward policies and governance could look like, building on lessons from past pandemics and towards a future of more universal support and structural accommodation of diminishment as well as disability.

COVID-19 362

COVID-19 ADA Public Health Governance 362

Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s a category in which the government says it will defer trying to deport someone so they can deal with a severe illness. “Deferred action is not a visa, it’s just a decision from the government not to deport.” People who have action deferred can also apply for a work permit.

Health Insurance 81

Health Insurance Doctors Governance Licensing 81

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

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. For this group, it’s more local control and influence that’s valued versus a national assurance of health care.

ACA 54

ACA Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare 54

Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

ranks second nationwide in hospital patient safety, with 7 Central Va. hospitals highly-ranked WASHINGTON DOJ resolves allegations Tacoma spine surgeon billed for unnecessary surgeries WA hospitals lose $1.74

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals Medicaid 40

Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

California health officials working to address “Long COVID” Pandemic awakens need for at-home hospital care. State health care reform efforts vary, but gaining momentum overall. New rule lets low-income people in Kansas, Missouri keep shopping for health insurance. Double dipping scheme.’

COVID-19 40

COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses 40