Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In November 2022, Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) introduced the Behavioral Health Network and Directory Improvement Act, which would enforce directory adequacy standards by requiring insurers and the federal government to conduct separate audits as to the accuracy of provider networks and to publicly share their findings.

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Jane Sarashon

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is true across all income categories, from those earning under $24,000 a year to the well-off raking in $180K or more, we learn in Gallup’s poll conducted with West Health, finding that Majorities of people rank cost and equity of U.S. adults in late June 2022. — will vote on health care issues beyond Dobbs/Roe v.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing. That’s the demand side.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

1] In addition to the challenges presented by provider shortages, even when patients are able to locate an available mental health provider, many are hesitant to engage in treatment due to cost uncertainties, which often arise due to limited availability for in-network care and the subsequent need to seek out-of-network care. [2]

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

In September 2022, Judge O’Connor ruled it unconstitutional for the ACA to require health plans to cover preventive services. Health Populi’s Hot Points: By late January, one-in-two U.S. adults said they had delayed or skipped medical care due to cost — including preventive services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

Among conditions, diabetes care is the most-noted area of focus for virtual services. Expect musculoskeletal care management to gain more attention in a year, looking to more implementation by 2022. The overwhelming majority of employers are already attending to financial wellness and health care access and literacy.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 19, 2022

I wrote about this issue earlier this year here in Health Populi , discussing the report from Kaiser Health News in their Diagnosis: Debt series with NPR. In that June 2022 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 100 million people in the U.S. were found to have had medical debt burdens in 2022.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 14, 2023

I support ECRI’s call-out of this challenge as a patient as well as provider safety issue, given the politicization of women’s health care access which has emerged a national as well as State-level crisis for women and the people who love us.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

Financial health must be recognized as inseparable from health. From 2020 to 2022, consumers were more likely to receive the care they needed, but cost concerns have become more common than health concerns. In 2022, 31% of people reported they chose to defer care, due to cost concerns.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

In December 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS’) request for a five-year extension of its Medicaid section 1115 demonstration and a five-year extension of its Medicaid managed care section 1915(b) waiver.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Today’s patients want seamless, holistic, and reliable health care access, self-service, and communication. They want to manage their own health affairs online—with a click or a swipe—much like they buy goods on Amazon, order transportation on Uber, or book a hotel room on Expedia. Providers are feeling the squeeze.

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Innovaare Compliance

JANUARY 19, 2021

The CMS has increased the weight of patient experience measures, which are determined by CAHPS as well as member complaints, health care access, members choosing to leave the plan, appeals, and call center measures, all of which reflect overall member experience. The following section provides a synopsis of the changes for 2021.

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Health Care Law Brief

APRIL 12, 2023

The Final Rule adopts a host of reforms aimed at improving health care access, quality, and equity for Medicare beneficiaries that receive coverage through Part C (“Medicare Advantage” or “MA”) and prescription drug benefits through Part D. 79452 (2022)). Parts 417, 422, 423, 455, and 460. 405.902).

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Health Care Law Brief

AUGUST 10, 2023

On July 27, 2023, California’s Office of Health Care Access and Information (the “ Office ”) released its long-awaited proposed regulations on the notice requirements for material health care transactions in California.

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Outstanding Women in Business 2022: Get to know Carmen Neuberger of Phoenix Children’s. Health officials encouraged, cautious about current COVID trends. Health at the Capitol Week 9 (March 18, 2022). New report recommends Wichita VA adds inpatient mental health services, two new satellite clinics.

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Alameddin Named All of Us Arizona Health Champion for Her Work to Improve Health Care Accessibility, Equity. Arkansas health care group asks to intervene, says overturning lawsuit could lead to higher drug prices for patients. Noble Health presents key findings of Hospital feasibility study.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 12, 2024

2022 ). State Government Opportunities: States can reform their drug laws by repealing paraphernalia laws (Minn. 152.092, repealed by SF 2909) or, at the least, amend them to exclude testing strips (e.g.,

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 10, 2022

” As of mid-May 2022, most people in the U.S. adults in May 2022 for the study. For medical care, 62% of those still worried about the coronavirus in May 2022 believed that services delivered through telehealth would be a good thing to continue beyond the pandemic era. With only 1 in 10 people in the U.S.

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Hall Render

JULY 28, 2023

million for rural hospital expansion Hospices in Arizona & other states receive scrutiny over concerns of fraud, waste & abuse Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square Foot Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Firefighters oppose Banner’s planned $400M hospital There’s a growing nurse shortage in Arizona.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Yale New Haven Health acquires Waterbury, Manchester, Rockville hospitals in agreement. Yale New Haven Health strikes deal to acquire Connecticut health systems from Prospect Medical Holdings. Yale physician among 2022 McArthur Fellows. UConn Health to hire formerly incarcerated people.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

that’s the prime problem cited by 55% of Americans one year ago in an Ipsos survey, In the UK, the NHS is primarily funded through taxation of the people, ensuring and insuring every health citizen’s health care access. side of the health policy pond, noting public dissatisfaction among U.S. In the U.S.,

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Hall Render

JANUARY 19, 2024

NATIONAL 13 major health systems partner with high schools in $250M Bloomberg initiative Acute Hospital Care at Home data released AI can help identify social determinants of health American Hospital Association Sues Over Updated HIPAA Guidance Bill aims to push price transparency to ASCs Billing for patient messages to clinicians is increasing, study (..)

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Tammany Health System create new residency program CHRISTUS nationally recognized for high-quality heart care Behind Ochsner LSU Health’s multimillion-dollar tech upgrades MAINE Millinocket hospital schedules renovation after $3.5M medical school to revamp philanthropic efforts Sage Health opening 3 central Md.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Tammany Health System create new residency program CHRISTUS nationally recognized for high-quality heart care Behind Ochsner LSU Health’s multimillion-dollar tech upgrades MAINE Millinocket hospital schedules renovation after $3.5M medical school to revamp philanthropic efforts Sage Health opening 3 central Md.

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Hall Render

APRIL 14, 2023

NATIONAL 94% of Organizations Experienced a Cyberattack in 2022 AHA blog: Strengthening crisis management in rural health care Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 national emergency Cancer drug shortages are creating dire circumstances for some patients CMS Releases FY24 IPPS Proposed Rule, Seeks to Boost Rates by 2.8%

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Hall Render

JULY 1, 2022

Mobile medical clinic expands health care access on Moloka?i. The “Great Resignation” comes to health care jobs in Idaho. Idaho first responders receive mental health training to understand the impacts stress and trauma have on the body. Luke’s, DMVA Partner to Improve Mental Health Care Access.

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Hall Render

JULY 29, 2022

340B DSH Hospitals Provided $41B in Uncompensated Care in 2020. 429 hospitals with 5 stars from CMS: 2022. 6 Major Trends Boosting the Telemedicine Market in Health Care. 192 hospitals with 1 star from CMS: 2022. Amazon Makes Another Big Bet on Primary Care with One Medical Buyout. Missoula’s St.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 21, 2022

20 hospitals, health systems that provide the most ‘unnecessary’ care: Johns Hopkins. 3 Population Health Trends to Watch in 2022. UVMHN highlights progress on health care Access Plan, announces additional steps for 2022. 81% of ICU beds in use nationwide: How each state stacks up.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 10, 2023

a hospital that closed after January 1, 2022). The Distressed Hospital Loan Program will be administered by the Department of Health Care Access and Information (“DHCAI”). DHCAI is required to develop a methodology to evaluate the potential eligibility of at-risk hospitals for Distressed Hospital Loan Program loans.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 30, 2023

Zaslavsky, who has served as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer since December 2022, will assume this role effective June 26, 2023, replacing Mick Ruxin, M.D., Theralink Technologies, Inc. appoints Faith Zaslavsky as its new Chief Executive Officer. who will transition to Theralink’s Chief Medical Officer.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

Radiology Partners added 500 physicians to its roster in 2022, now spans all 50 states Should Watsonville Community Hospital buy its building and the land it sits on? million to benefit South Side and south suburban communities in fiscal 2022 INDIANA Beacon Health announces hiring freeze, pay cuts for employees Carmel-based NICO Corp.

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Hall Render

MARCH 17, 2023

difficile Massachusetts health center notifies 10K patients of data breach Governor Healey weighs in on proposed western Massachusetts nursing home closures 4 hospitalized, 70 evacuated in carbon monoxide leak at Concord, Mass. Francis Hospital-Interquest Progresses In Colorado Colorado’s wealthiest hospitals favored in $1.2

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Hall Render

MAY 5, 2023

acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care?

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

into cutting opioids in hospitals ISU and University of Utah partnership aims to combat Idaho’s mental health crisis Presbyterian-UnityPoint merger moves forward St. health care fraud scheme SA cancer research company entering Dallas market as it eyes more U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. In 2022, Perrigo, maker of the Opill contraceptive, applied for the prescription medicine to be offered over-the-counter.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

5 moves to know Most hospital websites routinely transfer patient data via tracking tools Nonprofit hospitals that pay board members linked to less charity care Nurses, federal lawmakers push for staffing ratio legislation Reports of serious adverse events rose in 2022: Joint Commission Doctors are drowning in paperwork.

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Hall Render

JUNE 16, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Poses Threat to Patient Privacy Bill for Rural Hospital Cyber Skills Passes Senate Committee Chemotherapy shortages push cancer centers toward crisis CMS estimates national spending on hospital care grew just 0.8% Baltimore, and Northern Virginia DELAWARE Bayhealth adds northern Del. Clinic Owner Pleads Guilty To $4.7

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