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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. Double-booked surgeries lead to $14.6 Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. Why adding nursing-home beds in SD requires government permission. General pays $14.6

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

Even seemingly popular plan ideas like prescription drug pricing and coverage for pre-existing conditions can’t get traction in Congress or through the White House’s executive pen. which is a key factor underpinning my argument for health citizenship in America in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The authors note that “consumer-driven” health care is, “associated with neoliberal efforts to emphasize market factors in health reform,” de-emphasizing government regulation and financing. This concept can be potentially harmful, they believe, assuming that health care is a traditional market.

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Across All Political Parties, Likely Voters Over 50 Favor Cutting Prescription Drug Prices

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart illustrates that pharma pricing is a unifying force across older voters across the three political parties. consumers to import cheaper prescription drugs from other countries. While deep understanding of how U.S.

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Most Americans Across Party ID Favor U.S. Government Negotiation to Lower Rx Drug Costs

Health Populi

is prescription drug prices — that they’re too high, that the Federal government should negotiate to lower costs for Medicare enrollees, and that out-of-pocket costs for drugs should be limited. The biggest culprit/contributor to prescription drug prices? consumers were asked.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Health Enters the Presidential Race

Kaiser Health News

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?”

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The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

Health Populi

With the emergence of six-to-seven figure specialty drugs coming out of the Rx pipeline into commerce, we can expect growing financial toxicity as a side effect of these therapies, and evolving financial services offered to patients to pay, say, on an installment plan as Bluebird Therapeutics has offered (specifically, $1.78