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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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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. In the U.S.,

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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

Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019. As the Harvard Chan-POLITICO study points out, prescription drug costs are top-of-mind for health consumers in America. Two news items illustrate this issue in real time.

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CMS Releases Guidance on Implementation of Rebate Programs for Certain Medicare Part B and Part D Drugs

Healthcare Law Blog

The Rebate Programs are administered as part of the prescription drug affordability provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”), which is aimed at “lower[ing] out-of-pocket drug costs for people with Medicare and improv[ing] the sustainability of the Medicare program for current and future generations.” [1]

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

Hall Render

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 – July 22, 2022

Hall Render

CMS releases Medicare OPPS and ASC proposed rule. Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US. Kaiser Permanente Announces iPad Containing Personal Health Records Stolen. Elevance Health reports Q2 earnings. CMS proposes 2.7%

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Health Provider News – February 18, 2022

Hall Render

13-year Medicare payment dispute will return to HHS, court rules. Lawmakers call on Biden to end public health emergency. Only 14% of Hospitals Met Price Transparency Rule Compliance. A layoff list, expired medicine, neglected patients: Illinois hospital loses Medicare contract. of Public Health website.