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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Health Populi

OECD finally recognizes that all stakeholders in the health/care ecosystem have roles to play in being more efficient, effective, and engaging in getting more value out of health care spending. middle-class households finding that health care has returned to the #1 household fiscal concern ahead of inflation in 2023.

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

Health Populi

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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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case. in fact devotes fewer hospital beds, physicians and nurses to health care delivery compared with other countries. On the supply side, the U.S.

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Health Provider News – July 22, 2022

Hall Render

Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US. 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline number brings additional access to mental health help in Alabama. Omicron variant fueling uptick in Alabama COVID-19 hospitalizations. CMS proposes 2.7%

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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – February 25, 2022

Hall Render

342 hospitals have received price transparency noncompliance notices from CMS. How 5 health systems are spending their innovation investment dollars. The 55 hospitals penalized by Medicare 8 years straight over patient complications. Alabama’s Covid-19 positivity rate falling, giving hope to health leader.

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Health Provider News – February 18, 2022

Hall Render

48 hospitals on Forbes’ list of best employers. Hospitals plead with Congress to tackle workforce shortages. Hospitals urge HHS to fix, not end, direct contracting model. Lawmakers call on Biden to end public health emergency. Only 14% of Hospitals Met Price Transparency Rule Compliance. .