Kaiser Health News

MARCH 3, 2022

President Joe Biden’s top Medicare official suggested Wednesday that forthcoming rules to bolster nursing home staffing won’t be issued under a mechanism, known as interim final rules, that would allow regulations to take effect more or less immediately. Marjorie Moore , executive director of Voyce, a St. ” In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. ” Having used and referred to this important forecast for over a decade in my own work, I know this sentence-caveat well.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S. also say that income inequality and inadequate social services significantly contribute to high medical spending for every health citizen in the nation. This year’s poll was conducted in September 2019 and included input from 2,001 U.S.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The 55 hospitals penalized by Medicare 8 years straight over patient complications. Medicare penalizes 40 hospitals in Florida for patient safety. Florida bill extending COVID-19 liability protections for health workers on its way to Gov. New report shows Tampa Bay hospitals not following medical bill transparency law.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

face growing challenges to stay open KENTUCKY BehaVR merges with New York City-based Fern Health For years, a powerful Louisville hospital sued people for unpaid bills. 11 Plan To Slash $1.5B 11 Plan To Slash $1.5B cash Tenet’s $2.4B Acute Care Solutions following longtime ER staffing firm’s Ch.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan. Improving Medicare. modernizing the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, modifying Medicare Part D drug benefits to cap out-of-pocket spending, and other items), and to improve Medicaid. .”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 1971, Céline published his book, Death on the Installment Plan ; one wonders what Louis-Ferdinand would have thought about this medical billing model. The House passed its prescription drug bill earlier this month, named the Elijah E. mm over five years). Tech Scaling a Big Embrace of Social Determinants.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 28, 2024

” 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. If you have a baffling or outrageous medical bill you’d like to share with us, you can do that here.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

” Hippocrates’ book The Corpus is thought to be one of the first medical textbooks. This was equally true for people whether enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, or covered by private insurance. At the end of the book, you will have time-traveled from the Ancient Greeks to my town of Philadelphia.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

Health care and the economy are, in fact, intimately tied in every American’s personal household economy I assert in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. They may be threatened by a call for “Medicare for All” given their affection for the program.

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Kaiser Health News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Other things on the lame-duck list include reversing a 4% scheduled cut to Medicare providers’ reimbursements; weighing proposals related to pandemic preparedness; addressing Medicaid funding for U.S. If you have an enormous or mystifying medical bill you’d like to share with us, you can do that here.

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