Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires at the end of this week, with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expected to renew the PHE once more to extend through mid-July. By Cathy Zhang.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 5, 2022

Many public health and addiction experts, though, promote the rapid testing devices as what’s known as a “harm reduction” tactic to help prevent overdose deaths from illicit drugs that users may not know are laced with fentanyl. drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period that ended in November 2021.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

Today’s pandemic destabilized hospital care because hospitals were neither coordinated nor managed systemically in order to meet population demands. We also recognize that policymakers, specifically the U.S. president and state governors, enjoy emergency powers to contain behavior that otherwise would cause infections to spread.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, in 2020 and 2021, the AMA touted more advocacy efforts related to scope of practice that it did for any other issue — including COVID-19. It continues to lobby intensely against allowing other clinicians to perform tasks traditionally performed by physicians, commonly called “scope of practice” laws.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Considering these substantial consequences for patients’ access to mental health care, developing solutions to prevent ghost networks is critical. Federal legislative solutions The federal No Surprises Act , approved in 2021, mandates that health insurers update the information in their provider directory at least every 90 days.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The spending typically includes charity care — broadly defined as free or discounted care to eligible patients. But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research. in charity care, while for-profit hospitals provided $3.80.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

How Nonprofit Hospitals, Health Systems Compensate Executives. Encompass Health’s home health unit attracts acquisition interest-sources. COVID-19 cases dwindle, but Alabama lawmakers continue push for public health reform. State health officer reflects on progress 2 years into pandemic.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. For this analysis, the Pew research team assessed the views of some 2,600 health citizens living in 17 developed countries in February 2021. The study report was published in late October 2021. public health sector.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Now that hygiene protocols are well-established in health care providers’ settings, at least two other major consumer barriers to seeking care must be addressed: cost and access. One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type.

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