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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

The Health Care Blog

Advantage plans that receive 4 or 5 stars, generate a significant bonus payment from the federal government, and these payments have been increasing steadily from $3 billion in 2015 and subsequently, nearly quadrupled to $11.6 billion in 2021.

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Getting Sick and Going Broke – CVS, Credit Cards, and Crippling Medical Debt

The Health Care Blog

More than 1 in 3 Americans will fill those prescriptions at CVS, where whistleblower, Alexandra Miller used to work. What is she blowing her whistle about?

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Getting Sick and Going Broke – CVS, Credit Cards, and Crippling Medical Debt

The Health Care Blog

More than 1 in 3 Americans will fill those prescriptions at CVS, where whistleblower, Alexandra Miller used to work. What is she blowing her whistle about?

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Dr. Rex Archer Honored with PHAB’s Prestigious F. Douglas Scutchfield Leadership Award 

PHAB

Dr. Archer is a distinguished national leader in public health who has made significant contributions to public health policy and practice, including serving the residents of the city of Kansas City, Missouri as the Director of Health for 23 years.

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Better Living Through Better Design

The Health Care Blog

The project was begun in 2015, with first residents moving in in 2018. As NPR said about one Babcock Ranch family whose home escaped damage: “But it wasn’t just luck that saved Wilkerson and his wife, Rhonda, or prevented damage to their well-appointed one-story house. You might say that it was all by design.”.

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Juvenile detention centers in NC under scrutiny for use of isolation

NC Health News

In addition to more juvenile placements in detention centers, the average length of stay has grown to 35 days in 2023 — up from 15 days in 2015. These factors led the number of juveniles housed in detention centers to exceed capacity for a large portion of the year, according to the division’s most recent annual report.

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California pone gafas, guantes y máscaras a 10.000 trabajadores agrícolas para protegerlos de la gripe aviar

KFF Health News

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