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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Health Enters the Presidential Race

Kaiser Health News

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. And health is shaping up to be a key issue. And subscribe to KFF Health News’ “What the Health?

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Challenges and Considerations – Transparent Healthcare Pricing

Medval Compliance Blog

Recognizing the mounting attention given to hidden fees and surprise billing, on June 24, 2019, former President Trump signed an executive order (EO) directing the Department of Health and Human Services (and additional agencies) to take steps to improve price and quality transparency in healthcare. Medicare Set-Aside Considerations.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

of Maryland medical school opens addiction research institute in Baltimore MedStar Health breaks even in Q1 as revenues near $2B MASSACHUSETTS Boston Hospital Pays $5.7

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. In 2019, there was a major sentinel event for public health made by a huge private sector force in America: Walmart.

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Spending on Medicines In and Post-COVID Say a Lot About Patients and Larger Healthcare Trends – an IQVIA Update

Health Populi

Others of us feel anxiety and stress due to negative financial impacts from the shutdown economy, recovering in a K-shape where some citizens have fared pretty well (largely, those who could work-from-home and those who had investments in the stock market), and others on the low-tail of that K whose household finances eroded in 2020.

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The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

Health Populi

In 2020, avoiding care will be a new normal for even more people, a fact of American health life explained in a recent survey from NRC titled, The Decade of Deferment. Health Politics, Policy and the President. The biggest known-unknown for 2020 is politics on the macro/national U.S.

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Healthcare and the F-Word: Health Politics Rank High on November 6, 2018

Health Populi

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. In their poll of 487 likely U.S.