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Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

States maintain these obligations even when non-State actors are involved in health care financing, provision, and governance, albeit further normative development in this area is still urgently needed.

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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Healthcare Law Blog

BACKGROUND The Proposed Rule is the latest in a long line of federal legislation and rulemakings governing the conscience rights of healthcare providers and entities. The Church Amendments In the 1970s, the federal government enacted the Church Amendments, 42 U.S.C.

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‘Care Anywhere’ is the new normal, according to new industry report

Healthcare It News

Another result concerns innovation through ‘femtech’: digital technologies and applications related to women’s health are increasingly gaining importance – more so as this has been a gap in care in the US with only three per cent of all health deals since 2011 focusing on this area.

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‘Care Anywhere’ is the new normal, according to industry report

Healthcare It News

Another result concerns innovation through ‘femtech’: digital technologies and applications related to women’s health are increasingly gaining importance – more so as this has been a gap in care in the US with only three per cent of all health deals since 2011 focusing on this area.

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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Fran Boyle , president of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia, told the Guardian Australia in a recent interview that patients will have a "major problem" with phone consultations that are no longer subsidised by the government. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage

Kaiser Health News

25 ruling, which came in response to a 2011 class-action lawsuit eventually joined by 14 beneficiaries against the Department of Health and Human Services, will guarantee patients the right to appeal to Medicare for nursing home coverage if they were admitted to a hospital as an inpatient but were switched to observation care, an outpatient service.

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Georgia Nursing Home Settles to Resolve Allegations of False Claims for Therapy Services

Healthcare Compliance Blog

It is alleged that between January 2011 and November 2014, the Georgia nursing home submitted claims to Medicare for unreasonable, unnecessary, and unskilled services for rehabilitation therapy. The Georgia nursing home agreed to pay $400,000 to resolve the allegations. This amount was based on the nursing home’s ability to pay.