FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 1, 2024

to gain his insights on the future of healthcare policy. to gain his insights on the future of healthcare policy. With just a month left until the Nov. 5 presidential election, Fierce Healthcare's Heather Landi spoke with David Shulkin, M.D.,

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 2, 2021

3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 13:58.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2021

Here are 3 health policies Biden could now get passed—and one he won't. The Dems just flipped the Senate. Wed, 01/06/2021 - 16:37.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 11, 2019

Don Berwick, former CMS administrator and co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, sat down with FierceHealthcare to discuss the current health policy landscape.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Days before the 2024 presidential election, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an unpublished version of the final calendar year 2025 physician fee schedule final rule | Digital therapeutics, telehealth, rural heath clinics and opioid treatment programs all got updates in the final 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule rule, (..)

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DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute and Markus Bolton, CEO at Graphnet will speak at Rewired 2025.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 25, 2024

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) addressed a series of questions from lawmakers on health policy priorities ranging from pharmacy benefit management to Medicare spending. |

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 30, 2024

Enforcement and physician education are two keys to limiting health plan upcoding, a costly scheme that exploits the Medicare system, health policy experts told Fierce Healthcare. Health plan upcoding threatens the Medicare system. Here's how policy experts believe the federal government should pursue abuse.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 3, 2023

By Hari Prasad, founder and CEO, Yosi Health. That’s the key finding of a recent research brief published by Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy under the […] The article Combatting Wasteful Administrative Costs At the Practice Level appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Tuesday's Senate Committee on Finance hearing on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) featured both proponents and critics of recent health policy decisions throwing punches, many of which have been p | Lawmakers and policy experts disagreed on whether the Inflation Reduction Act's strengths outweigh its weaknesses as well as the best path forward. (..)

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Washington provided a lot of drama for the payer and provider industries in 2019 with unexpected transparency requirements, payment cuts and major uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 4, 2023

health policy legislators. New Jersey’s largest academic medical center has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing about 1,700 of its nurses to end a four-month strike. | The labor dispute over pay and staffing held about 1,700 nurses without pay or benefits and drew the attention of top U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

This poll is published today in a four-page special section devoted to health care policy. The top-line of the section, noted in the title of page A-1, is that 92% of all Americans want changes in the health care system. The gridlock comes at certain flashpoints, USA Today explains.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

For more on women and health policy in the 2024 election cycle, you can explore the Open Letter on the site of Women Healthcare Leaders for Progress , of which I am one of several hundred signing the Letter.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless. healthpolicyvalentines — John Lynn (@techguy) January 31, 2024 I love health policy enough to #healthpolicyvalentines on my honeymoon.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

who follow health policy wonkily always look to the States and Governors for innovation as labs for health policy innovation. We can generally look to California for health care innovations in financing and technology, and the same holds true for dealing with medical debt and fair billing. Those of us in the U.S.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 28, 2024

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is walking away from its tentative deal to purchase the bankrupt Steward Health Care’s physician group, according to a Massachusetts healthcare regulatory body.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2020

This system to effectively track and trace COVID is a necessary first step for gradually reopening the economy, the healthcare leaders said in a recent paper issued by the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy or CHHP is an independent resource on national telehealth policies and state telehealth regulations. Center for Connected Health Policy The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP), a project of … Read more. Still Wondering about Telehealth Regulations?

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 6, 2023

This week on "Podnosis," you'll hear from Ge Bai, a Johns Hopkins health policy and economics researcher, who will chat about her work exploring healthcare prices. | 'Podnosis': Will price transparency move the needle on rising healthcare prices and Q1 financial trends

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way Americans currently pay for medicines. health citizens access to high-value and lifesaving meds.

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Health Recovery Solutions

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In times of uncertainty it is essential that individuals, especially those in the healthcare and health policy space, recognize the disparities that exist and focus on what can be done to address them.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 22, 2019

Mike Leavitt, Department of Health and Human Services secretary under President George W. Bush, spoke with FierceHealthcare about the moment's biggest health policy concerns, including the future of value-based care.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 8, 2019

A group of health policy researchers has reconvened to study healthcare spending and reached the same conclusion as a decade ago: "It's the prices, stupid."

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 6, 2019

A new report from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission targets the recent jump in prescription drug pricing, putting a large part of the blame on spread pricing by pharmacy benefit managers.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Medicare and Medicaid are better than private insurers at keeping spending per beneficiary low, a finding that has crucial implications for the current health policy debate, according to a new report.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 21, 2019

Adventist Health Policy Association, an affiliation of five Seventh-day Adventist healthcare systems, is building up the first Washington policy shop and establishing a stronger national voice for the faith-based nonprofits among federal agencies and congressional offices.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Despite a split Congress and talk on the Hill moving away from an Affordable Care Act repeal, healthcare industry executives are still expecting a whirlwind couple of years for health policy, according to a new survey.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Representatives for CVS and Aetna will go before Congress today to assure lawmakers that the $69 billion deal is in the public's interest. The merger, they will argue, will lead to lower costs and better integrated care—though experts warn that may not be the case.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Flexibility can be extremely valuable in crafting effective health policy—or it can underpin poor policy, with potentially dangerous consequences, experts warn.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Bolstering the impact of digital health technologies — and particularly remote health monitoring and clinically-prescribed wearable tech — was the late December 2922 health policy news that telehealth provisions would be included in the FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 9, 2020

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 14, 2020

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 10, 2020

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 4, 2020

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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