Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The good news: that Americans have become more aware of information comparing clinician quality, and more often seek that information than they have in the past — especially other patients’ comments about doctors. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

the annual review of prescription drug supply, demand and Rx pricing dynamics from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. In a call with analysts this week in which I participated, Murray Aitken discussed the report which looks back at 2018 and forward to 2023 with scenarios about what the U.S. was $344 billion, a 4.5%

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 22, 2023

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the “HELP Committee” or the “Committee”) passed a bipartisan bill to expand federal regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”) for group health plans. [1] 14] Additionally, many provisions of S. 2d 327 (2020). [4] 1339 may apply to the different plan types. [7]

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen. Ironically, more social spending by the public sector could help address health outcomes for people, something for which we’ve had evidence for many years.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Rogers Behavioral Health opens first Colorado location in Arapahoe County. As RSV cases fill Colorado hospitals, health officials preparing for respiratory illness ‘trifecta’. Cost of health insurance on Colorado’s marketplace to rise 10% next year. Take action against economic uncertainty, says UnityPoint Health CFO.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

This is what happened to pharma stock prices on Friday after President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar outlined their new policies focusing on prescription drug prices. The graph is the Nasdaq U.S.

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Hall Render

JUNE 23, 2023

voters could clamp down on pay for hospital executives California health system uses philanthropists’ gifts to launch innovation fund Probe into California hospital unearths patient safety concerns Wrong family notified after man dies at SF hospital California Gov. What about telehealth?

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain signed a deal to combine with one of the top three health insurance companies. The legacy healthcare system — hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — haven’t delivered on that expectation. The deal is valued at $69 billion. as the first chart shows.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Women were surveyed on perspectives for health care in America in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the prospects for the Affordable Care Act and health insurance security, and views on health, well-being, and health care. Women identified the top five personal health issues they face as: Mental health.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

appear to have a “YOLO” attitude about spending – that is, in the profligate spending style of “You Only Live Once.” This attribute covers about 1 in 4 U.S. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. In contrast, residents of the U.S. adults, CivicScience found.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

voters’ priorities, across political party – prescription drug prices. voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. Few issues unite U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

Another unifying health care issue is prescription drug prices, which KFF has tracked for several years. Most voters across party have told previous KFF polls they believe in more government regulation or intervention on drug costs. .” Health Populi’s Hot Points: What most U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

The giant health care, climate, and tax bill expected to pass the House on Friday and be sent to the president for his signature won’t be as sweeping as the Democrats who wrote it had hoped, but it would help millions of Americans better afford their prescription drugs and health insurance.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

Department of Labor grant ARIZONA Banner Health donates building to WCH Banner Health names CFO Effects of long Covid far worse in Arizona than other states, study shows Six Banner Health executives named CEOs to know Arizona researchers part of the ‘first step’ in defining long COVID New signs of hope for families facing loss of insurance (..)

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

But even with such strong national statistics, about one-half of Americans feel their personal economic condition is getting worse, and another half say their condition is only fair or poor. Ten percent of people have longer-term concerns about finances, such as funding retirement or paying for college for a child. Indeed, the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

And here’s the notorious tweet about her use of the f-word, and the link to the article in the Tucson Weekly which reported on the day talked about McSally’s enthusiasm for cutting down the Affordable Care Act with her Republican colleagues in the House. The final vote was 217-213. What a difference a year makes.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

As I wrote about yesterday (about learning from Governor Kasich), people keen on healthcare should pay attention to the states, which are laboratories for health reform. Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Biden talked about income inequality, immediately pivoting to the President: “Trump thinks Wall Street built America,” Biden began his response. ” Mayor Pete took a more moderate approach to education and health care policy, by not supporting free college for all nor Medicare for All. ” Sen. .”

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