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

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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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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications. Zuskov points out that hospital data doesn’t represent the full population. The percentage is much higher in some areas.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Norden is particularly passionate about funding companies focused on the Medicaid population – a traditionally tricky and often ignored area. Fortunately, government, investors and startups are working together to close some of these care gaps. Hospitals are faced with impossible decisions.

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FDA Oversight of AI Software Developed by Health Care Providers

Health Law Advisor

5] But that Interstate Commerce Clause needs to be viewed also in balance with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, which reserves to the states any powers not delegated to the federal government. 13] Hospital Reprocessing of Single Use Medical Devices Medical devices can be quite expensive.

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President Biden Signs End-of-Year Legislation Including Telehealth, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Pandemic Preparedness, and Other Health Care Provisions

C&M Health Law

trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and funds the federal government through September 30, 2023, provides additional assistance to Ukraine, and makes numerous health care policy changes. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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CMS BLOG: Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system

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Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. percent from 2011-2016, from $17.6 Trillion tax hike, because the cost of health care to the government would more than double.

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President Signs FY 2022 Funding Bill into Law with 340B, Telehealth and Other Health Care Provisions

Hall Render

2471 ) that funds the federal government for the remainder of FY 2022. billion in new COVID-19 emergency funding requested by the White House was removed at the last moment after some rank and file House Democrats objected to a cost offset that rescinded $7 billion in unused state and local government aid from previous COVID-19 relief laws.