Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. Mason, now 17, was hospitalized for more than 100 days in Central Regional over two separate stays that year, documents show.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

Examples of these in the current news cycle are Zolgensma, which is priced about $2 million to treat spinal muscular atrophy, and CAR-T therapy which can run as high as $1 million all-in for the treatment and hospital service costs for the patient. Much now depends on the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost was ranked as the top issue negatively impacting patient care in this survey, identified by 86% of U.S. Related to costs, consumers were asked about factors they believe drive up health care spending. The study also addressed the politics of health care leading up to the 2020 Presidential election.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

California Attorney General Rob Bonta began an inquiry into racial bias in health care algorithms in September 2022 by requesting information from hospital CEOs about their use of clinical decision-making algorithms. Also, hospitals should establish oversight mechanisms to identify bias resulting from the algorithms they use.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Some of the decline in service volumes has been for screenings and preventive care, which will result in underdiagnosis of, for example, cancer conditions further downstream — with more acutely, advanced cases requiring more aggressive (and potentially expensive) treatments. health care? Walmart) to do so, as well.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

and more health citizens getting their first jabs, there’s growing optimism in America looking to the next-normal by, perhaps, July 4th holiday weekend as President Biden reads the pandemic tea leaves. But that won’t mean Americans will be ready to return to pre-pandemic health care visits to hospital and doctor’s offices.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured.

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

On October 29, 2020, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (“the Departments”) issued a final rule requiring private-sector health insurers and self-insured health plans to disclose treatment prices and cost-sharing information with consumers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s extremely expensive and specialized care that Espinosa said Julia could not get in his home country of Ecuador, where they had planned to return. Instead, the family moved to Seattle 10 years ago to be near Seattle Children’s Hospital, where specialists can manage Julia’s nutritional needs well.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 13, 2024

in Refinancing for Medical Office Building in Goodyear, Arizona Northern Arizona VA part of national campaign to help veterans with ‘blast exposure’ become eligible for benefits Pharmaceutical company now profits off Arizona opioid crisis settlement Scottsdale hospital performs breakthrough heart procedure with new technology St.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. For this group, it’s more local control and influence that’s valued versus a national assurance of health care.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

AHA urges Congress to address health care workforce challenges. 50 best hospital, health systems supply chains in the US, per GHX. CMS Innovation Center Launches New Initiative To Advance Health Equity. Cybersecurity companies offering US hospitals free protection. Biden administration requests $22.5B

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Hall Render

MAY 31, 2024

Vincent Named President of the Association of Black Cardiologists Arkansas Children’s Hires Morse as Chief Administrator for ACNW Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals partners raise $5.4

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

RealClear concludes that, “health care is more than a political issue; it is also deeply personal,” and therefore the politics of health care reform, “requires understanding differences in consumer priorities and designing policies to meet their most pressing needs.”

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2023

House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Health policy experts aren’t surprised.

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Hall Render

MARCH 24, 2023

5 moves to know Ransomware Attacks Target Undermanned US Rural Hospitals: Report Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?

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Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

” She previously spent more than a decade reporting on the federal government, most recently covering surprise medical bills, drug pricing reform, and other health policy debates in Washington and on the campaign trail. Childbirth Still Left Them With Crippling Debt ,” by Aria Bendix.

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Hall Render

MAY 9, 2025

NATIONAL 19 states sue to block HHS reorganization, claim overhaul is unconstitutional Bill grants hospital staff same federal protections as flight crews: 5 notes CMS lead Dr. Oz questions federal funding for Medicaid expansion CMS process undermines negotiated drug prices, 340B: AHA CMS suspends 8 MIPS improvement activities Dr. Oz talks generational (..)

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary ALABAMA 5 former Ascension hospitals rebrand Andrews Sports Medicine recommended for approval of Alabama ASC Medical Properties Trust cuts Steward from portfolio, hits $801M net loss in Q3 Texas medical office building sells for $7.1M Kennedy Jr. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy Jr.

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