Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Anchorage’s Mobile Crisis Team hopes funding to operate 24/7 will expand ability to address mental health crises. Health Affairs report shows Alaskans spent more out-of-pocket dollars on health care than residents in any other state in 2019. Connecticut ditches $20M health information exchange software.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. The new Medicaid drug program debuted this January, with a private company in charge. Centene was already a big player in state Medicaid drug programs — but one with a questionable record.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 16, 2022

Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health insurance, couldn’t make an appointment with his doctor for a dangerous intestinal infection because the office said he had outstanding bills. And they had retiree health insurance through Con Edison. Many hospitals thrived even through the pandemic.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

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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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

For the second time in three years, Espinosa faces the prospect of losing permission to work, which would cost him not only his job providing tech support at a software company, but also his health insurance. Without health insurance, his daughter would lose her eligibility for transplants.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

on EHR upgrade New SSM Health children’s developmental center opening today Illinois Capitol bills would give more money to community health centers Illinois physician selected for year-long NASA Mars simulation HSHS St. renovation Police: Man facing arson charges after setting 3 fires inside Florida hospital St.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 2, 2023

Denying patients copies of their health records, overcharging for copies, or failing to provide those records within 30 days is a violation of HIPAA. OCR made HIPAA Right of Access violations one of its key enforcement objectives in late 2019. Milestones of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last two decades, the last set of major HIPAA updates occurred in 2013 with the introduction of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule. The comment period closed on February 12, 2019.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

Health insurance was on the collective minds of American voters in the 2018 midterm elections. Health care, broadly defined, drove many people to the polls voting with feet and ballots to protect their access to a health plan covering a pre-existing condition or to protest the cost of expensive prescription drugs.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

Banner Health expects hospitalizations to peak in mid-February from recent omicron surge. Arkansas health officials ask state for $400M to cover increased Medicaid costs. Arkansas health officials weigh in on mask debate, warn of fake masks. California launches Medicaid innovation with new MCO and technology requirements.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

believe that the Federal government should ensure that their fellow Americans, a new Gallup Poll found. But while there’s majority support for universal health care, we should think broadly about this concept at this moment. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

KFF Health News reported last year that more than 100 million Americans are saddled with medical bills they can’t pay, and has documented aggressive bill-collection practices by hospitals, many of them nonprofits. in charity care, while for-profit hospitals provided $3.80.

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Connecticut is weighing several changes to Medicaid. Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 29, 2022

Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel Tuesday. Cathy Rodgers (R-Wash.)

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, DeSantis blasted California for being too generous with public benefit programs, such as Medicaid, which the Golden State has expanded to all eligible residents regardless of immigration status. Obamacare Florida DeSantis has refused to expand Medicaid eligibility to more people under the Affordable Care Act.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

The giant health care, climate, and tax bill expected to pass the House on Friday and be sent to the president for his signature won’t be as sweeping as the Democrats who wrote it had hoped, but it would help millions of Americans better afford their prescription drugs and health insurance. “It’s historic.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

While we have a divided government via split legislature, one winner in the 2018 midterm outcome is Medicaid. As I wrote about yesterday (about learning from Governor Kasich), people keen on healthcare should pay attention to the states, which are laboratories for health reform. pharma costs on reference pricing].

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

.'” I note that note all national health plan designs would need to be tied to Medicare. There are many ways to deliver universal health care to citizens beyond this concept. Paying more in taxes and eliminating private insurance companies would be opposed by most people. from a low of 10.9 I notice that U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

.” I note that, by the time Americans voted in the 2018 mid-term elections, it was no surprise that lower-income Americans were highly concerned about paying higher premiums, most people earning over $75,000 a year were also very worried about covering the costs of health insurance. health care system , Gallup learned.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Senator Harris, too, mentioned government benefits like free college and Medicare for All as her health plan preference.

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