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

Jane Sarashon

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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

Hall Render

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. Double-booked surgeries lead to $14.6 Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan.

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

Health Populi

In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S. most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services.

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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