Health Care Reform, Hospitals and Public Health

Personal Crusades for Public Health

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. It explores how they must negotiate public health measures on their own.

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The Future of Health Care Reform is Top of Governor Hochul’s State of the State Address

Health Care Law Brief

JANUARY 20, 2023

The address featured a number of health care reform initiatives—a strong indication that New York will prioritize health care issues and spending in the year ahead. Below is a summary of Governor Hochul’s big-ticket health care agenda items. The full State of the State book can be found here.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. COVID-19 and the U.S. Applying the Principles in the U.S.

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

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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Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

has been the failure to meet surging demand for inpatient care. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health Conditions

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Medically tailored meals have been associated with lower hospital admissions. The most intensive interventions are prepared, medically tailored meals delivered to patients with complex diet-related chronic diseases who are unable to cook for themselves.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. health care?

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Litigation and Patient Safety: The Importance of Good Communication Strategies

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), Chief Inspector of Hospitals stated : “Despite this preventability, the number of Never Events has not fallen. NHS Resolution is a special NHS Health Authority that manages litigation claims made against NHS hospitals and other types of health organizations, among several other functions.

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A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers

Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2023

Following patient protests, the hospital updated its policies with an imperfect fix, announcing that “ patients can ask, but providers determine when and if masking in a particular situation is clinically necessary.”

ADA

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Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work

Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities. The disability rights movement has long struggled against unnecessary institutionalization in state hospitals and nursing homes, winning wide recognition of the principle of aging in place.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

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. The general position of health care institutions today seems to be an untenable balance between flood and drought.

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Tackling Racially Biased Health Care Algorithms

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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Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

One study that generated a large amount of press compared the brains of several hundred adults to themselves before and after COVID (their “before” scans were part of a large databank) and found brain structure alterations as well as cognitive impairments even after mild, non-hospitalized cases. These problems are invisible, but impactful.

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Merck Price Negotiation Lawsuit May Face Same Obstacles as 340B Takings Claims

Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2023

Covered entities include various federally funded clinics and hospitals that serve low-income patients. The 340B Drug Pricing Program , created in 1992, requires manufacturers to agree to sell drugs at discounted prices to certain covered entities as a condition of participating in Medicaid and Medicare Part B.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

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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Let’s Think of Patient-Centered Care, Not Value-Based Care

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recently, I’ve become uncomfortable with the buzzword of health care reform in our time: “value-based care.” Some context: During the 15 years that I’ve been covering health care IT, commonplace terminology has been repeatedly re-examined. Not if we think about its implications.

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Three Reactions to Braidwood v. Becerra

Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2023

To make sense of these developments, leading experts in health law policy analyze Judge O’Connor’s ruling below. This discourse strips away the public health benefits of medical treatment and shifts focus to the patient’s individual behavior. Doron Dorfman Braidwood v. It essentially de-medicalizes PrEP.

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National Health Spending Will Reach Nearly 20% of U.S. GDP By 2027

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A key headline is that there will be a shift expected from the commercially insured population to Medicare, as more Baby Boomers move from working health citizens to aging into Medicare. For these enrollees, increases in fee-for-service hospital care and prescription drugs will push spending upward.

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Health Provider News

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?

Nursing Homes

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

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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As Nonprofit Hospitals Reap Big Tax Breaks, States Scrutinize Their Required Charity Spending

Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity. The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. POTTSTOWN, Pa. —

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Health Provider News – March 11, 2022

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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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

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. Nurses held majority trust across all three political positions for health care reform.

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Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas

Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2023

The real fight comes down to defining “short-term,” said John McDonough, a professor of public health practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who worked on the original ACA legislation.

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Health Care Compliance Brief

Personal Crusades for Public Health

The Future of Health Care Reform is Top of Governor Hochul’s State of the State Address

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health Conditions

How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Litigation and Patient Safety: The Importance of Good Communication Strategies

A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers

Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work

Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Tackling Racially Biased Health Care Algorithms

Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

Merck Price Negotiation Lawsuit May Face Same Obstacles as 340B Takings Claims

While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Let’s Think of Patient-Centered Care, Not Value-Based Care

Three Reactions to Braidwood v. Becerra

National Health Spending Will Reach Nearly 20% of U.S. GDP By 2027

Health Provider News

How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

As Nonprofit Hospitals Reap Big Tax Breaks, States Scrutinize Their Required Charity Spending

Health Provider News – March 11, 2022

Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas

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