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Physicians Beware! Groups Providing DME, Prosthetic Devices, and Other Medical Supplies to Their Medicare Patients Risk Violating the Strict Liability Stark Law Since the Expiration of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Health Law Advisor

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October-December 2021 State Regulatory Developments

New Jersey Healthcare Blog

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register from October-December 2021: On October 4, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. 10:69, AFDC-Related Medicaid, or 10:71, Medicaid Only.

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What Poor Birth and Maternity Outcomes in the U.S. Say About American Healthcare & “Infrastructure”

Health Populi

Cain Brothers is a 100+ year old financial services firm with a strong health care experience, now part of KeyBanc. A recent “House Calls” memo and podcast from two company analysts detailed the state of Medicaid, Motherhood and America’s Future: Giving Birth to Better Maternity Outcomes.

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National Health Spending Will Reach Nearly 20% of U.S. GDP By 2027

Health Populi

National health spending in the U.S. every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs.

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Biological Determinism, Scientific Uncertainty, and Reproductive Rights

Bill of Health

This definition of scientific uncertainty — one inextricably linked to constitutional conflict and political polarization — shaped litigation at the Supreme Court, which upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2007. The Court in Gonzales v.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Jane Sarashon

There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession.