Foster Swift

JULY 18, 2022

Particularly, HHS’s Office for Civil Rights has released guidance regarding how the HIPAA Privacy Rule may or may not permit disclosure of an individual’s sexual and reproductive health information without express authorization from the patient.

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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The December 8, 2020 MDHHS Order involving residential care facilities was rescinded.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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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since markets are inherently individualistic and the basic unit of analysis of public health is the community, this ideology was and is antithetical to our goals. Should we have seen this coming? Absolutely. Their words sound as if they were spoken only yesterday.

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American Medical Compliance

APRIL 17, 2024

Understanding the ACA The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to as the Affordable Care Act or “ACA” for short, is the comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010. The law has 3 primary goals: Make affordable health insurance available to more people.

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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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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 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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Advocacy and Policy Reform : Advocacy efforts should target policy reform to ensure that behavioral health services are equitable and accessible to all. Policymakers should prioritize the needs of dually diagnosed patients in health care reform initiatives.

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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 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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Jane Sarashon

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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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Over time, improved measures of success will allow more robust and fair value-based programs, bringing us closer to the goals of health care reform. Wellness, of course, is also the goal of value-based medicine.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2024

An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice. Baban At present, there is a population of patients who would physiologically benefit from transplantation but are rejected based on pre-determined non-medical criteria: the presence of psychotic disorders.

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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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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

By Jon Larsen and Sterling Johnson Addressing the opioid crisis cannot stop at providing better access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) , expanding and enhancing harm reduction efforts, and reimagining the role of law enforcement, as explored previously in this blog series.

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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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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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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Zione Ntaba Malawi is not a stranger to public health crises in the last number of years, having faced a severe HIV epidemic and several cholera outbreaks continuing into 2023. Nevertheless, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major panic in the country’s legal system and judiciary.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Hannah Rahim Food is Medicine interventions aim to prevent and treat diet-related chronic health conditions and reduce food insecurity by providing food to individuals and communities, in connection with the health care system.

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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.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Nerima Were and Allan Maleche Taking into account our experiences as human rights lawyers working in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic, in this article we briefly analyze the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles) and make a case for their utility in guiding State measures to prepare for, prevent, (..)

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 19, 2023

is shrinking, especially among those who choose primary care. By Stephen Wood The number of physicians in the U.S. Advanced practice providers, such as Advanced Practice Nurses (APRNs) and Physician Assistants (PAs), are helping to fill that void.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Jon Larsen and Sterling Johnson There is a well-established whole of government response to drug policing centered around the “war on drugs.”

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Bill of Health

JUNE 21, 2023

By Timothy Bonis Premiering tonight on PBS , the film Below the Belt sheds light on endometriosis by documenting four women’s experiences with the disease. Endometriosis is a silent crisis. One in ten women have it, yet, on average, people with the condition see seven doctors before they get diagnosed.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Eduardo Arenas Catalán The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), entail a notable attempt to consolidate lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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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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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By Brianna da Silva Bhatia, Michele Heisler, and Christian De Vos American health care too often fails to protect the right to health or promote health-related rights.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Hannah Rahim Many mental health provider directories for private and public insurance plans contain inaccurate or outdated provider information , which creates a misleading illusion of accessible care. These ghost networks result in many patients being unable to access essential mental health care.

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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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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 20, 2023

face discrimination in seeking health care services, including restrictions against obtaining solid organ transplants. By Hannah Rahim Medical cannabis users in the U.S.

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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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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2023

By Katherine A. Macfarlane In May 2023, Mass General Brigham instructed its patients that they “cannot ask staff members to wear a mask because our policies no longer require it.”

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Hannah van Kolfschooten and Mirko Faccioli There are currently over 12 million cancer survivors in Europe. Due to improving cancer screening methods and medical treatment, this number is expected to grow every year. Former cancer patients often face multiple forms of discrimination throughout their lives.

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