Hall Render

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Lawmakers call on Biden to end public health emergency. Only 14% of Hospitals Met Price Transparency Rule Compliance. 5 recent hospital, health system COO moves. of Public Health website. 8 recent hospital, health system executive resignations. 64M VA health clinic opens in Portland.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

All rebate payments will be deposited into the Medicare Prescription Drug Account in the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. FOOTNOTES [1] See Press Release – HHS Releases Initial Guidance for Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program, CMS (Feb. 9, 2023). [2]

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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. s health, hospital chief says Raising Ky.’s

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. Much of this is due to the fact that U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

As such, the debate on prescription drug pricing in the U.S. is heating up, with President Biden mentioning the scenario of Medicare negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers in his latest speech measuring progress at 100 days in the White House.

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Medval Compliance Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For example, pricing for a lumbar fusion procedure may cost significantly less in a hospital in a claimant’s local area compared to the cost for that same procedure in a major medical center (cross-referenced to the claimant’s zip code in accordance with CMS guidelines). American Journal of Public Health, 109(3).

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

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. LifeBridge Health to partner with George Washington University for new medical campus. VCU Health CEO resigns.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Moore’s 2024 budget MASSACHUSETTS Cancer drugmaker down to 3 employees after trial failure Fallon Health CEO to retire after 25 years with Worcester-based health plan FEMA provides $4M to Massachusetts for daycare Covid-19 testing costs Massachusetts hospital to remain closed for 3 months after fire Nurses keep protesting staffing shortages.

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Hall Render

JUNE 23, 2023

What about telehealth? Greenwich Hospital Ribbon Cutting Celebrates Opening of New Pediatric Ambulatory Surgery Center Hartford HealthCare names Joanne Berger-Sweeney new board chair What changes did CT make to its Medicaid program in 2023? Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt named best in Southeast by U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 21, 2022

But work continues, particularly on a Senate bill that could, for the first time, allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and cap seniors’ out-of-pocket medication costs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2018

voters, across the three-party landscape, agree on two healthcare issues this year: coverage of pre-existing conditions, and lowering the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs. This is the tactic that most Americans say could lower prescription drug prices. There’s growing evidence that a majority of U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As a result, some consumers may face delays in accessing GLP-1 drugs in 2024 as health insurance plans, keen to rationalize costs of this explosive new category of prescription drug spending, implement restrictions on just who should receive the product and be reimbursed for its use.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Women, being Chief Health Officers of their Families, influencing 80% of health care decisions, well know how to connect the dots between health care costs and their household financial wellness.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

The growing adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning by pharma companies to drive more efficient drug discovery. More philanthropic organizations targeting neglected tropical and public health diseases. The increased use of real-world evidence (RWE) and patient involvement in clinical trials.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What we-know-we-know is that home economics — for living (housing, utilities/energy costs, the price of petrol) — and health economics in the forms of deductibles, out-of-pocket costs, and prescription drug prices — are informing voters’ key issues that as of November would drive people to the polls.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 25, 2024

But Biden may be gathering momentum himself from an unexpected source: Drug industry lawsuits challenging his administration’s Medicare price negotiation plan could draw attention to Biden’s efforts to combat rising prescription drug prices, a major pocketbook issue for many voters.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

level, and then the tighter lens on health politics and health policy. Only further global debate, innovation, and evaluation can determine how the private sector can best improve public well-being and offer new directions for the future of population health.”.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

of Maryland medical school opens addiction research institute in Baltimore MedStar Health breaks even in Q1 as revenues near $2B MASSACHUSETTS Boston Hospital Pays $5.7

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. In their poll of 487 likely U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. ” Lower my drug prices. Lester Holt began with Sen. The rise of deaths of despair in the U.S.

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