Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The second largest waste component was pricing failure, associated with medication pricing failure (the largest piece of three components), payer-based health services pricing failure, and lab and ambulatory pricing. Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 26, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Request for Public Comment (“NPRM”) seeking to amend the Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR”). Commissioner Phillips has since resigned.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

in the second half of 2022, families and households faced financial stress that strained peoples’ ability to make ends meet… and that included health care, as 5.7 million more Americans lost health insurance during the Great Recession era.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

Asking consumers to shop for services and be “prudent purchasers” of services? Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Looking to the future toward 2023, IQVIA identified a roster of policies that relate to the American Patients First Blueprint that President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar unveiled in 2018. We agreed — prescription drug pricing, from the patient’s point of view, is complicated, indeed.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Color Health expands into behavioral health to tackle access challenges for mental care services. Rogers Behavioral Health opens first Colorado location in Arapahoe County. As RSV cases fill Colorado hospitals, health officials preparing for respiratory illness ‘trifecta’. in prescription drug pricing case.

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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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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] 1339 framework to differentiate their services. Further, enactment of S. In its current form, S.

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Hall Render

JUNE 23, 2023

Newsom is proposing a boost in mental health funding. Vincent’s ending free shuttle service, riders concerned how they’ll access medical care Bayfront Health opens new ER in St. Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations S. Here’s what we know.

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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 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

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment. The nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain signed a deal to combine with one of the top three health insurance companies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A new study from Tia, the women’s health services platform, looks deeply into COVID-19’s negative impacts on working-age women and how they would advise the next occupant of the White House on health policy in Dear Future President — What Women Want for Healthcare in America. Stress management.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

health care ecosystem, basing shoppable services on price and convenience. As medical bills rise, overall health declines we learned from the 2023 PayMedix report, Healthcare Payments and Financial Disparities Study. adults had major, unexpected medical expenses in the past 12 months ranging from $1,000 to $1,999.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021. This patient experience crosses political parties in the U.S.,

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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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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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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. Health Populi’s Hot Points: It’s insightful and correct that Gallup posts this survey on the uninsured under the tab, “Well-Being.”

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

One-half worry about health care finances — paying for anticipated health care expenses (say, a premium cost or co-payment for a service) as well as paying medical costs occasioned by a major illness or accident. We must hasten to add that Rx CPI was driven down by the influence of generic drug prices in the past year].

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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. Governors have health-coverage missions along with managing their portfolios of services for education, infrastructure, and other objectives for state residents.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Sanders, noting his call for big new government benefits like universal health care through Medicare for All and free college tuition. Holt asked the Senator whether he expected Americans to welcome paying more taxes for these services. and Canada have some private insurance. Even countries like the U.K.

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