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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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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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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Public Health COVID-19 Medicaid Medicaid 176

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. For this analysis, the Pew research team assessed the views of some 2,600 health citizens living in 17 developed countries in February 2021. The study report was published in late October 2021. public health sector.

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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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Kaiser Health News

MAY 5, 2022

Many public health and addiction experts, though, promote the rapid testing devices as what’s known as a “harm reduction” tactic to help prevent overdose deaths from illicit drugs that users may not know are laced with fentanyl. drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period that ended in November 2021.

Public Health 97

Public Health COVID-19 Health Care Reform 97

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

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