Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2023

Covered entities include various federally funded clinics and hospitals that serve low-income patients. The 340B Drug Pricing Program , created in 1992, requires manufacturers to agree to sell drugs at discounted prices to certain covered entities as a condition of participating in Medicaid and Medicare Part B.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2023

Following patient protests, the hospital updated its policies with an imperfect fix, announcing that “ patients can ask, but providers determine when and if masking in a particular situation is clinically necessary.”

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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. The general position of health care institutions today seems to be an untenable balance between flood and drought.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. health care?

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Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities. The disability rights movement has long struggled against unnecessary institutionalization in state hospitals and nursing homes, winning wide recognition of the principle of aging in place.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost was ranked as the top issue negatively impacting patient care in this survey, identified by 86% of U.S. Related to costs, consumers were asked about factors they believe drive up health care spending. The study also addressed the politics of health care leading up to the 2020 Presidential election.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

One study that generated a large amount of press compared the brains of several hundred adults to themselves before and after COVID (their “before” scans were part of a large databank) and found brain structure alterations as well as cognitive impairments even after mild, non-hospitalized cases. These problems are invisible, but impactful.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

California Attorney General Rob Bonta began an inquiry into racial bias in health care algorithms in September 2022 by requesting information from hospital CEOs about their use of clinical decision-making algorithms. Also, hospitals should establish oversight mechanisms to identify bias resulting from the algorithms they use.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 13, 2024

in Refinancing for Medical Office Building in Goodyear, Arizona Northern Arizona VA part of national campaign to help veterans with ‘blast exposure’ become eligible for benefits Pharmaceutical company now profits off Arizona opioid crisis settlement Scottsdale hospital performs breakthrough heart procedure with new technology St.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2023

To make sense of these developments, leading experts in health law policy analyze Judge O’Connor’s ruling below. This discourse strips away the public health benefits of medical treatment and shifts focus to the patient’s individual behavior. Doron Dorfman Braidwood v. It essentially de-medicalizes PrEP.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recently, I’ve become uncomfortable with the buzzword of health care reform in our time: “value-based care.” Some context: During the 15 years that I’ve been covering health care IT, commonplace terminology has been repeatedly re-examined. Not if we think about its implications.

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Health Care Reform Public Health Health Outcomes Compliance 126

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A key headline is that there will be a shift expected from the commercially insured population to Medicare, as more Baby Boomers move from working health citizens to aging into Medicare. For these enrollees, increases in fee-for-service hospital care and prescription drugs will push spending upward.

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Hall Render

MAY 31, 2024

Vincent Named President of the Association of Black Cardiologists Arkansas Children’s Hires Morse as Chief Administrator for ACNW Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals partners raise $5.4

Nursing Homes 40

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Hall Render

MARCH 24, 2023

5 moves to know Ransomware Attacks Target Undermanned US Rural Hospitals: Report Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

and more health citizens getting their first jabs, there’s growing optimism in America looking to the next-normal by, perhaps, July 4th holiday weekend as President Biden reads the pandemic tea leaves. But that won’t mean Americans will be ready to return to pre-pandemic health care visits to hospital and doctor’s offices.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary ALABAMA 5 former Ascension hospitals rebrand Andrews Sports Medicine recommended for approval of Alabama ASC Medical Properties Trust cuts Steward from portfolio, hits $801M net loss in Q3 Texas medical office building sells for $7.1M Kennedy Jr. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy Jr.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity. The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. POTTSTOWN, Pa. —

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Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medical Billing 72

Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

AHA urges Congress to address health care workforce challenges. 50 best hospital, health systems supply chains in the US, per GHX. CMS Innovation Center Launches New Initiative To Advance Health Equity. Cybersecurity companies offering US hospitals free protection. Biden administration requests $22.5B

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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. Nurses held majority trust across all three political positions for health care reform.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2023

The real fight comes down to defining “short-term,” said John McDonough, a professor of public health practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who worked on the original ACA legislation.

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