Showing posts with label Health policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health policy. Show all posts
Monday, July 14, 2025

The Administration's Three-Pronged Assault on Health Care

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I wish I could offer a link to an outstanding article in the current NY Review of Books  entitled "The Dismantling of American Health ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Tracking the Changes in the Senate's Reconciliation Bill (Updated Daily)

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The Kaiser Family Foundation's website is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to figure out what's at stake as the Senate stru...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Rural Health Care and the Tenuous Connection to Urban Tertiary Care Centers

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Today's  on-line post  (possibly free, at least for awhile) from the New England Journal of Medicine is by a physician in the Northern ...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Latest Report on National Health-Related Spending in 2023

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From Health Affairs  on-line today : In an ahead-of-print article published [Dec. 18], Anne B. Martin and colleagues at the Centers for Med...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Texas Tax-Exempt Hospitals & Charity Care: Surprisingly Progressive

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In 1985 -- one year before Congress added EMTALA to Medicare's Conditions of Participation -- Texas became the first state in the countr...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

More on Health Care and the Election

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Yesterday I posted Drew Altman's view of the health care issues that are most likely to be affected by the outcome of next Tuesday's...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

New England Journal of Medicine: "The Failing U.S. Health System"

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It should come as a shock to no one that our health care "system" is only a "system" in the loosest sense of the word. ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Health Care Policy and the 2024 Election

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The presidential campaign hasn't been much about health law, and up to two-thirds of adults are concerned about the lack of discussion ....
Friday, July 19, 2024

SCOTUS and Health Agencies (Part 2)

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The totally excellent health-policy journal, Health Affairs , posted an analysis of the likely impact of the death of the Chevron  doctrine...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

SCOTUS and Health Agencies

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The New England Journal of Medicine today posted a Perspective piece  (apparently free, at least for now) by Rachel Sachs and Erin Fuse Brow...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Mark Hall on HCA's Acquisition of Tax-Exempt Health System

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Wake Forest law professor Mark Hall has released the latest chapter in his exhaustive preliminary report on the 2019 acquisition of Ashevill...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

SCOTUS (5-4) Rules in Favor of Indian Nations in Health Care Funding Dispute

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Feb 28, 2023Feb 28, 2023  The Supreme Court today decided a statutory interpretation case in which millions of dollars were at stake. Witho...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Negotiating with Big Pharma Over Drug Prices for Medicare

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You really can't blame Big Pharma for hating the new federal law that authorizes the Medicare program (for the first time in its 59-year...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Health Disparities: More Data from The Commonwealth Fund

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Here is The Commonwealth Fund's introduction to the new report (released today): Part of the Fund’s ongoing series examining state healt...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Prior Authorization & Your Health Insurer

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Once upon a time, the way health insurance worked was this: Patients with insurance were seen by their doctors, received prescriptions for m...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

"Automatic Enrollment in Health Insurance" (Commonwealth Fund Report)

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The Commonwealth Fund just published "Automatic Enrollment in Health Insurance: A Pathway to Increased Coverage for People with Low Inc...
Saturday, March 09, 2024

Revised Merger Guidelines from DOJ & FTC: What Effect on Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices?

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  On Dec. 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission issued their updated Merger Guidelines , hitting the ...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Biden's State of the Union Address: 13 Health Care Take-aways

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Becker's Hospital Review takes a look at "13 healthcare takeaways" from President Biden's State of the Union address las...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Out-of-Pocket Costs Are Top of the List of Voters' Concerns

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Money's tight. Inflation seems to be stuck at a level that bothers voters -- R, D, and Ind alike. Worries that the Fed may back off a no...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Hospital Discharge Planning: It Takes a SYSTEM

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On Thursday (Dec. 7), I posted about a Catholic hospital system in California that has taken to suing patients for trespass when they refus...