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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

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PwC calls out this transformation which the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated, when the report notes ambulatory care settings recovered the fastest compared with other delivery sites in the healthcare system. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S., We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

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in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category. In the U.S.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs).

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Health Provider News

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Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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Health Provider News – July 22, 2022

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Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US. Health systems eye perks of M&A post-COVID shock. Omicron variant fueling uptick in Alabama COVID-19 hospitalizations. Five leading children’s hospitals secure $29M in federal funding to enhance future pandemic readiness. CMS proposes 2.7%

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Health Provider News – February 18, 2022

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48 hospitals on Forbes’ list of best employers. CMS may now enforce its COVID-19 vaccination policy for healthcare workers in all 50 states. HHS seeks $30B to combat COVID-19. Hospitals plead with Congress to tackle workforce shortages. Hospitals urge HHS to fix, not end, direct contracting model.

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

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40% of Nursing Home Residents Haven’t Received COVID-19 Boosters, Analysis Finds. 342 hospitals have received price transparency noncompliance notices from CMS. Biden extends COVID-19 national emergency. No COVID-19 boosters for 70% of nursing home staffs, AARP says.