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

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CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023. 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. HCA hospital in Florida names new CEO.

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

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The authors note that “consumer-driven” health care is, “associated with neoliberal efforts to emphasize market factors in health reform,” de-emphasizing government regulation and financing. In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S.

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The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

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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

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Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

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This bar chart shows that 50% of working-age adults would not have sufficient funds to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days. And there’s very little bidding on drugs.” ” Remember that prescription drug spending continues to hover around one-tenth of overall U.S.