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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Health Populi

In light of inflation and increasing health care costs among the OECD nations, of which the U.S. is one, “policy options remain limited” the Organization calls out, warning that the health care cost “spending spree” must now be tempered with greater efficiencies and wringing out wasteful spending.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

What happens to a health care ecosystem when the volume of patients and revenues they generate decline? Add to that scenario a growing consensus for a likely recession in 2023. How would that further impact the micro-economy of health care? In the U.S.,

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CMS Releases Guidance on Implementation of Rebate Programs for Certain Medicare Part B and Part D Drugs

Healthcare Law Blog

All rebate payments will be deposited into the Medicare Prescription Drug Account in the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. The thirty-day public comment period ends on March 11, 2023. Part B inflation rebates are measured on a quarterly basis, with the first quarter having begun on January 1, 2023.

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Health Provider News – July 22, 2022

Hall Render

10 procedures CMS proposes moving off the inpatient-only list in 2023. update to ASC pay rate in 2023: 6 things to know. Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US. Lamont: Changing federal health guidelines hindered CT in pandemic.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov. s health, hospital chief says Raising Ky.’s

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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – February 25, 2022

Hall Render

CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023. Alabama’s Covid-19 positivity rate falling, giving hope to health leader. U of California, Irvine to Launch Institute for Precision Health. Georgia House starts work on comprehensive mental health bill.