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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

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Health Populi’s Hot Points: While having health insurance is better than being uninsured, people in the U.S. who receive coverage through the workplace are still quite concerned that they are but one diagnosis away from bankruptcy — specifically, medical bankruptcy.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

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health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. These services are enumerated in Section 2713 in the ACA , prompting Dr. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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Health Provider News – August 19, 2022

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Amazon to offer behavioral health services through Ginger partnership. CDC ends social distancing, COVID-19 quarantines. CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. CISA warns of ransomware threat targeting healthcare, medical organizations.

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Health Provider News

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NATIONAL AHA, AHCA warn CMS against unfunded nursing home staffing mandates AHA to Congress: Funding rural hospitals is critical for access AHA-supported bill to aid small rural hospitals reintroduced in Senate Biden won’t veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency CVS-branded hospitals?

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

The latest (March 2021) Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll learned that at least one in three Americans were recently “struggling” to pay living expenses since December 2020, with six in ten families affected by COVID-19 having lost a job or income. adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

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Health Provider News

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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% Health director New tool tracks gun injuries at D.C. emergency rooms D.C.

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Health Provider News

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NATIONAL 4 Healthcare Design And Construction Trends To Watch AHA urges court to preserve ACA preventive services requirement pending appeal AI may pose ‘existential threat,’ physicians warn in BMJ Biden’s nursing home staff mandates expected soon CareFirst, Noom program aims to ‘retrain’ the brain of members with obesity, (..)