Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Citing the ongoing impact that prior authorization has on patient care, health system costs, and administrative burdens for providers, CMS seeks to streamline the prior authorization process in the Proposed Rule by requiring the following changes. The CMS Fact Sheet and FAQs provide further insight on the proposed changes.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Louis hospital ‘You can’t do this to people’: Patients say they waited 12 hours to be treated at hospital Missouri health system names CEO Petitions seek to add rape, incest exceptions to Missouri abortion law Cigna exiting ACA exchanges in Kansas, Missouri for 2024 ‘It’s a win-win for everybody’: Gov.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

and how much care would be postponed or never realized in the health care system. A big uncertainty in this year’s forecast, pondering the 2022 picture, is what extent eliminate care will have on future adverse health outcomes… something that keeps my scenario planning humming across various modeling.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The new state plan option allows state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) agencies to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage, regardless of any changes in circumstances, through a state plan amendment (“SPA”). This option is available for five years and ends on March 31, 2027.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Connecticut ditches $20M health information exchange software. Two Health Insurers Grilled for Proposing Rate Increases of 20 and 25 Percent. Henry Ford Health reports negative operating margin. Michigan health insurance companies ordered to lower costs. Sentara Health Plans names new leader.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

Furthermore, the difference in information seeking between more educated Americans versus less could exacerbate health disparities and the inequities of health literacy. Finally, to the fourth paper, looking at the roles of assisters and automated decision support tools in consumers’ health insurance marketplace choices.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

in 2022 Pediatric clinic will buy Kaleideum building in downtown Winston-Salem Why this Raleigh pharma just cut half its workforce Finding good health care in rural eastern N.C. claims 4th-, 5th-largest U.S. on revenue of $2.1B claims 4th-, 5th-largest U.S. on revenue of $2.1B

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

institute focused on health equity Medical providers at D.C.’s Vincent’s Riverside has conducted over 800 robotic-assisted procedures Baptist Health Care in talks to donate hospital campus Florida nonprofit hospitals focused on serving low-income residents Florida Rep. In Boulder, you recycle it. The whole thing.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

I covered EBRI’s poll here in Health Populi earlier this year, explaining that, “Workers dissatisfaction with U.S. healthcare is based largely on cost: one-half of workers experienced an increase in health care costs in the past year. Healthcare costs are bundled into household economics.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

operating margin, $579M net gain for its first post-merger quarter GE HealthCare invests in augmented reality firm on ‘X-ray vision’ technology Marshfield Clinic reports $32.6M

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2018

President Trump and his administrative have been trying to make the ACA fail, claim most U.S. Thus, the public holds the POTUS and the Republican party responsible for moving the Affordable Care Act forward… or not, according to the July 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

” Buttigieg would call it “Medicare for All Who Want It,” made available on health insurance exchanges. and Canada have some private insurance. Biden, too, told his personal story of family health trauma and financial coverage with health insurance. Even countries like the U.K.

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