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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed.

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

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How 5 health systems are spending their innovation investment dollars. The 55 hospitals penalized by Medicare 8 years straight over patient complications. U of California, Irvine to Launch Institute for Precision Health. Pandemic’s mental health crisis shows California needs to reinvent health care.

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Health Provider News

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County-owned buildings facing potential earthquake risk Gilead drops option to buy cancer therapeutics company Health and Life Organization Inc. in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? buys industrial property in Rancho Cordova for $5.12

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Health Provider News

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Medicare fraud scheme One of Michigan’s largest insurers is altering telehealth billing. Here’s Why. Luke’s Hospital sees record number of twin births Iowa Gov. Medical Society names Hamilton primary care physician as new president Mass. primary care system is in ‘crisis’, says new report Meet the Mass. What does it mean?

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Health Provider News – November 11, 2022

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Like ordering from Amazon: Where health tech is heading, according to 3 CIOs. Medical groups to Biden: ED boarding at a ‘crisis point’ Nursing home groups request public health emergency extension. Physician leaders balk at Medicare 4.48% physician fee cut. VCU Health CEO resigns.

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Health Provider News – November 18, 2022

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Health system cash reserves plummet. Health systems eye real estate moves in post-pandemic world. HHS to partner with health systems on national patient safety alliance. MGMA urges Congress to address Medicare payment cuts. New CMS report highlights need to improve health equity data. Here are 3 things CEOs can do.

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Prescription Drugs: From Costs and Bad Reputation to Civica Rx and Amazon to the Rescue

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health consumers believe that Medicare should be allowed to negotiate with drug companies to fetch lower prices for prescription drugs, and that more drugs should switch to generic when possible. This intolerable situation has escalated to a public health crisis. The vast majority of U.S.