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Flashback: 2005 Tennessee Medicaid disenrollment led to increased crime, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Large-scale Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee nearly 20 years ago led to increased total crime rates, a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found. |

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy 

Bill of Health

Associations Between Copays, Coverage Limits for Naloxone, and Prescribing in Medicaid. FDA validation of surrogate endpoints in oncology: 2005-2022. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2022 Sep 27:10234184. Epub ahead of print. Messinger JC, Kesselheim AS, Vine SM, Fischer MA, Barenie RE. Subst Abuse. 2022 Sep 29;16:11782218221126972.

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Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

Further, safety net programs, such as Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), have stringent rules that prevent people with disabilities from working while simultaneously forcing them to live in poverty. However, expanding safety net programs , such as SSI and Medicaid, would be important as an interim measure.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team studied nearly 250,000 hospital discharges in patients with diabetes from 2005 to 2011. Although the study tracked patients from 2005 to 2011, before the current telehealth boom , it offers yet another piece of evidence for why virtual care is likely to remain a staple in healthcare even after the pandemic.

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Just What the Doctor Ordered: More Medicaid Reimbursements May Be On the Way For Florida Physicians

The Health Law Firm

The Health Law Firm Taking Medicaid patients can be seen as a professional obligation for health care providers. By Lance Leider, J.D., In return, good deeds should not bankrupt a practice.

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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

Health Populi

health care administrative spend that could be freed up to, for example, cover more peoples’ health insurance or extend food benefits to bolster nutrition security and prevent physical wasting during cancer treatment for a person enrolled in Medicaid. It still does. The post “Complexity is Profitable” in U.S.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured.

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