Compliance Now

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many sponsors of fully insured health plans either already have or will soon receive checks from their insurance carriers, along with a notice informing them that the check is a medical loss ratio (MLR) rebate. Plan sponsors should receive these checks by September 30, 2022.

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Foster Swift

AUGUST 18, 2021

Read More › Tags: Health Care Reform. On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) on Promoting Competition in the American Economy where he seeks to address many facets of the American economy and promote a more competitive marketplace.

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Compliance Now

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many sponsors of fully insured health plans either already have or will soon receive checks from their insurance carriers, along with a notice informing them that the check is a medical loss ratio (MLR) rebate. Plan sponsors should receive these checks by September 30, 2022.

Health Care Reform 100

Health Care Reform Governance 100

Foster Swift

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Read More › Tags: Health Care Reform , Hospice , Hospitals , Medicaid Planning , Medicare , Medicare/Medicaid. The Final Guidance is meant to address how CMS and other state agency surveyors will evaluate how hospitals share their space, services, and staff.

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Foster Swift

MARCH 3, 2021

The December 8, 2020 MDHHS Order involving residential care facilities was rescinded. Read More › Tags: Alerts and Updates , Health Care Reform , Hospice , Long-Term Care , News. The March 2, 2021 Order (the “Order”) became effective immediately.

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Health Care Reform 52

Foster Swift

JANUARY 11, 2021

Read More › Tags: Alerts and Updates , Health Care Reform. The Final Rule will become effective on January 19, 2021.

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Health Care Reform Fraud Compliance 52

Foster Swift

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Read More › Tags: Alerts and Updates , Compliance , Health Care Reform , Legislative Updates , Long-Term Care , News. The MDHHS Order became effective immediately, and will remain in effect through October 30, 2020 (and may be renewed through a subsequent order).

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Health Care Reform COVID-19 Compliance 52

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

Two of President Clinton´s key campaign pledges were health care reform and universal health care for all Americans; and, as soon as he took office, President Clinton established a top-level task force to deliver on his pledge. How HIPAA Kickstarted the Momentum.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Two-thirds of these folks were concerned about potential future changes to their health insurance coverage with changes in federal policies — that is, worries about national health care reform. Nearly 1 in 5 consumers in the study avoided medical care or filling a prescription in the past year due to cost concerns.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Until sweeping health care reform changes the employer-based health care system in America, this relationship between worker and company will continue to be values for health — physical, financial, and mental/behavioral.

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Health Care Reform Telemedicine Medical Billing Health Outcomes 162

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: John Mackey has held this view on food for a long time. ” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Care Reform Health Outcomes Health Care Access COVID-19 62

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

That is for the immediate-near term under the fragmented, high-cost health care system that currently challenge American health citizens. Today as Election Day, I recall my post published yesterday here in Health Populi on U.S. voters’ perspectives on health care reform looking toward Election Day 2020.

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Health Care Reform Hospitals Medical Billing Health Insurance 66

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Even in some countries where health citizens highly rate the national COVID-19 response, there are folks calling for significant political reform: these include 84% of Italians who rated the pandemic response positively, 83% of Americans, 81% of people in South Korea, and 78% of Spaniards. In the U.S.

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Public Health Health Care Reform COVID-19 87

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Now that the big pandemic economic rescue legislation has been signed and getting implemented, President Biden will move on to a major infrastructure bill as well as addressing health care reform. While Republicans inside Congress may want to block building on the ACA, most of the U.S. electorate is in favor.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

While these industry players won’t be building inpatient capacity in the near-term, they will be even more important ambulatory and primary care touch points for people in exurban and rural regions of America. Over time, depending on the politics of health care reform, the safety net and social determinants policies (e.g.,

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Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Health Care Reform 109

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2019

Joe Coughlin, the Founder and Director of the MIT Agelab , has useful advice here: “Investing in your health is just as critical as investing in your retirement.” ” And vice versa — they’re one and the same.

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Medicare Medicare Health Care Reform Nursing Homes 108

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

health care system not seen since the 1968 creation of Medicare, coupled with decreased reimbursement due to health care reform. Cosgrove based that sobering forecast due to changes in the U.S.

Health Insurance 54

Health Insurance Prescription Drug Pricing COVID-19 Health Care Reform 54

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. By Wendy E. Parmet and Elaine Marshall I.

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Public Health COVID-19 Compliance Health Care Reform 346

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. has collapsed.

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Public Health COVID-19 ADA Hospitals 337

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

GDP share for health care expected in 2027 based on CMS’s current projections of the current state would shift well above 20% were Americans, say over 50 years of age, allowed to buy into Medicare as envisioned by some of the Presidential candidates’ platforms for health care reform.

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Bill of Health

MAY 12, 2023

McCuskey In vitro fertilization (IVF), like most medical care in the U.S., But, unlike most other expensive medical care, IVF rarely has insurance coverage to defray the cost. By Valarie K. Blake and Elizabeth Y. costs far more than most people can afford out-of-pocket: over $12,500 per cycle, with multiple cycles typically required.

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Medicaid Medicaid ACA Health Insurance 211

Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

High deductible health plan designs continue to grow and mainstream in both commercially-insured populations for people receiving employer-sponsored plans, as well as for folks enrolling in public sector and marketplace plans.

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Health Care Reform Medical Billing Health Insurance 63

The Health Law Firm

JULY 30, 2012

China's increasing health concerns for its aging population, combined with the government's proposed health care reform, has generated much optimism in multi-national corporations concerning the future of China's health care industry. By Miles Indest.

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Health Care Reform Governance 40

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By Nicole Huberfeld Once again, health law has become a vehicle for constitutional change , with courts hollowing federal and state public health authority while also generating new challenges. In part, this pattern is occurring because the New Roberts Court — the post-Ruth Bader Ginsburg composition of U.S.

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Public Health Medicaid Medicaid Health Insurance 246

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For several decades, health care reformers have been advocating “fee for value” or value-based care, which supposedly rewards long-term results instead of individual encounters. ” Remote patient monitoring. The premise of this article embraces an irony. If the U.S.

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COVID-19 Doctors Medicare Medicare 120

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

By Emily R.D. COVID-19 will be with us — in our society and in our brains — for the foreseeable future.

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COVID-19 Public Health ADA Health Care Reform 362

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health.

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Single Payer Health Care Medical Billing Health Care Reform Medicare 54

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The provision of scarce resources such as intensive care unit (ICU) beds, antivirals, and ventilators during this pandemic has been an ongoing topic of discussion. Repeatedly, states and hospital systems have considered implementing crisis standards of care, which establish triage protocols for scarce resources. By Stephen Wood.

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Bill of Health

JULY 11, 2022

It is fair to say that the British public are generally speaking very proud of our National Health Service in England, and treasure it greatly. By John Tingle. The NHS Constitution sets out the seven key principles which guide the NHS in all its activities, and these include: The NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all.

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Malpractice Hospitals Governance Health Care Reform 246

Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 As a first step to protecting incarcerated individuals’ right to health, Congress should repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP). By Sarah Wang.

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Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Health Insurance 286

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Elizabeth Weeks The most promising path forward in public health is to continue recognizing federal authority and responsibility in this space.

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Public Health COVID-19 Medicaid Medicaid 169

Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

” I couldn’t agree more as I expect both employers and mainstream Americans to become more activist with respect to health care reform. The post Healthcare Costs Inspire Employer Activism and Employee Dissatisfaction – What PwC Found Behind the Numbers appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Care Reform Doctors 61

Bill of Health

MARCH 3, 2022

The issue of the high and increasing costs of clinical negligence (medical malpractice) in the National Health Service ( NHS ) in England has long been a contentious one. By John Tingle and Amanda Cattini. There are common themes in the debate.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

In addition, some industries heavily depend on attracting and retaining employees based on a carefully curated mix of benefits, of which health care in the current environment is a much-desired line item. Much now depends on the U.S.

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Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare FDA 79

Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

And the maldistribution of physicians — with far too few pursuing primary care or working in rural areas — is arguably an even bigger problem. By Leah Pierson. Recently, Derek Thompson pointed out in the Atlantic that the U.S. has adopted myriad policies that limit the supply of doctors despite the fact that there aren’t enough.

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COVID-19 Nurses Medicare Medicare 204

Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. By Timothy Bonis. It is not just state boards’ political obstructionism standing in the way.

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