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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

Health Populi

President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger. ” The plotline goes….

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

Health Populi

Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. 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.,

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

Health Populi

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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New CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Chronic Pain Patients?

Kaiser Health News

“We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors , a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. in the past two decades, with a spike early in the covid-19 pandemic. The human toll of the opioid crisis is hard to overstate.

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New CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Chronic Pain Patients?

Kaiser Health News

“We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors , a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. in the past two decades, with a spike early in the covid-19 pandemic. The human toll of the opioid crisis is hard to overstate.

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Health Provider News – July 22, 2022

Hall Render

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. Tracking COVID in Alaska: State reports uptick in hospitalizations and cases over past week. CMS proposes 2.7%