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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

Carceral health care occurs within a regulatory vacuum. There are no national mandatory standards governing health care access or delivery behind bars. health law and policy is the exclusion of people in custody in prisons, jails, and detention centers from Medicaid.

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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

Bill of Health

By Hannah Rahim Many mental health provider directories for private and public insurance plans contain inaccurate or outdated provider information , which creates a misleading illusion of accessible care. These ghost networks result in many patients being unable to access essential mental health care.

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California Releases Proposed Regulations on Health Care Transaction Notice Requirements

Health Care Law Brief

On July 27, 2023, California’s Office of Health Care Access and Information (the “ Office ”) released its long-awaited proposed regulations on the notice requirements for material health care transactions in California. A transaction involving a transfer or change in control, responsibility, or governance.

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What is HIPAA?

HIPAA Journal

HIPAA consisted of five Titles addressing the primary objectives of the Act: Title I: Health care access, portability, and renewability. Title II: Preventing health care fraud and abuse; administration simplification; medical liability reform. Title IV: Application and enforcement of group health plan requirements.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Penn Medicine to build cancer center in $400M project Pennsylvania hospital to pay $12K in overtime dispute Philadelphia health nonprofit lands $48.3M

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

healthy village’ George Washington University medical residents vote overwhelmingly to form a union Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic president, Ruth Williams-Brinkley, to retire Kaiser Permanente to spend billions on new value-based care nonprofit based in the D.C. Question drives Pa.

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Thinking Pharma on a Friday: Europe’s Big Reforms for a Health Union & the U.S. 50-State Fragments

Health Populi

It’s really a package or “toolkit” in the words of EC Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides for addressing several strategic health pillars including but not limited to medicines. — as much and as long as I have been evangelizing the ideal of Health Citizenship for all U.S.