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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies]. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

On the pharma supply side, mRNA vaccines will dominate the market, proving more effective than others at stemming a further outbreak. With growing global supply and competition, we can expect prices for COVID-19 vaccines to fall, anticipating additional volumes from Sinopharm, Moderna, Sinovac, Gamaleya Institute, among others.

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Health Provider News – November 4, 2022

Hall Render

AMA scrutinizes lack of competition, consumer harms in Medicare Advantage plans. CMS gives nursing homes a longer leash on staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements. CMS makes big changes to Medicare Shared Savings Program. 2 orthopedic hospitals facing Medicare readmission penalties. percent in final rule.

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The End of Public Health? It’s Not Dead Yet

Bill of Health

OSHA , which limited federal authority to regulate worker safety with COVID-19 vaccination requirements. The “major questions doctrine” popped up throughout recent public health decisions and became formally recognized in Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in West Virginia v.

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Health Provider News – April 22, 2022

Hall Render

Fields, Prax discuss DHSS split, other Alaska health care initiatives. Skagway officials weigh the future of the town’s health clinic and housing shortages. Banner Health to build new hospital in Buckeye. Bill banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates heads to Ducey’s desk. UAMS Study Finds Marshallese in U.S.

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Key Healthcare Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023

Healthcare Law Blog

In addition to funding, the Act modifies certain telehealth provisions, expands and extends components of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and supports initiatives within the behavioral health and substance use treatment spaces. Medicare Extension & Adjustments. reduction of the Medicare conversion factor.