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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

The MIEP overburdens county and local jails financially and jeopardizes public health. 2628 would support states and counties in delivering quality health care. Inmates need more health care, with chronic disease rates among inmates being more than double the general public. Legislation like H.R.

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Massachusetts governor signs law safeguarding telehealth coverage

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Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. At the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Baker enacted an emergency order requiring insurers to cover telehealth in order to help ensure provider and patient safety.

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Addressing Ghost Networks in Mental Health Care

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To assess the prevalence of ghost networks, Senate Finance Committee staffers conducted a secret shopper study of 120 mental health provider listings across 12 Medicare Advantage plans. Insurers should also work to decrease the shortage of mental health care providers in their networks.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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

Health Populi

They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.” This research looked at enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans compared with traditional Medicare.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

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And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people. Carceral health care occurs within a regulatory vacuum. These voluntary standards, within the U.S. One of the largest failures of U.S.

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

.” “This,” being the scenarios illustrated by people – health consumers, patients, caregivers, all hungry for health citizenship, illustrated here by their signs of SDoHs curated in this second slide from my PowerPoint deck.