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Food Insecurity, Energy Prices, and Medical Debt Spike in February 2022

Jane Sarashon

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. in January 2022. There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S. across the U.S.;

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Gas ‘N Healthcare – How Transportation Links to Health Care Access and Financial Health

Jane Sarashon

In that June 2022 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 100 million people in the U.S. were found to have had medical debt burdens in 2022. I launched my Health Populi blog in September 2007 with this cartoon from the New Yorker, originally published copyright Michael Maslin in 1994.

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Seventh Circuit Clarifies “Authoritative Guidance” for the False Claims Act

Hall Render

3:11-CV-3406, 2022 WL 1012256, (7th Cir. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only. Safeway, Inc., clarified what it means to act with reckless disregard in respect to claims brought under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). ­__ F.4th 4th ­__, No. Background. SuperValu Inc., of America v.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Jane Sarashon

At the end of each year since I launched the Health Populi blog, I have put my best forecasting hat on to focus on the next year in health and health care. For this round, I’m firmly focused on the key noun in health care, which is the patient – as consumer, as Chief Health Officer of the family, as caregiver, as health citizen.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2023 – May And June

SQA

In August 2022, ANVISA published Resolution RDC 741/2022 , which sets the framework to consider other medical device market regulators’ authorizations. The affected lots of Emerade were distributed in Canada between April 2022 and May 2023. TR 43 was originally published in 2007 and revised in 2013 to address industry feedback.

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October-December 2021 State Regulatory Developments

New Jersey Healthcare Blog

This notice extends the waiver of the continuing education requirements for current active health officers and REHSs who are renewing their license for the 2022 licensing period. 10:191, Children’s Partial Care Programs, by the Department in 2007; and N.J.A.C. See N.J.A.C. 8:7-1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.17.

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TwIqbal And Punitive Damages

Drug & Device Law

544 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Thus, Bexis made a note to blog on it – but only after he finished his chapter update due at the end of February. 2022 WL 610276 (C.D. 31, 2022), fell into our laps. The ruling in question was that the TwIqbal ( Bell Atlantic Corp. Twombly , 550 U.S. Iqbal , 556 U.S. Medtronic Inc.

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