The Health Care Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
For my health care tidbits this week, I am going to talk drug pricing. Anyone who gets basically any health policy newsletter has seen some of the cash PhRMA has splashed trying to make it seem as though the American public is terrified of drug price controls. Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. Matthew Holt.
KFF Health News
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
“That’s a pretty healthy markup the hospital is making on it,” Loren Adler , associate director of the Brookings Institution Center on Health Policy, told KFF Health News when contacted about Ryan’s case. Now, it is often patients who foot the bill — and ER bills are notoriously high. Tell us about it !
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The Health Care Blog
MARCH 2, 2022
In 2018, 7 of 10 of Medicare beneficiaries did not compare Medicare plans, and that figure rises about 10-20% among minority, older, and low-income populations. Nirban Singh is an MPH student at Northeastern University with a passion for investigating the role of health policy in creating equitable outcomes.
KFF Health News
JANUARY 3, 2025
In late 2015, the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department launched a syringe service program but shuttered it in 2018 under pressure, with then-Mayor Danny Jones calling it a “mini-mall for junkies and drug dealers.” That advice has thus far gone unheeded by local officials. Learn more about KFF.
PHAB
JUNE 24, 2024
He served as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors from 2018 to 2020 and as Chair of the Board of Directors from 2020 to 2022. Under Dr. Archer’s leadership, the Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO) Health Department won NACCHO’s Local Health Department of the Year award in 2016 and 2018.
Institute of Public Health
MAY 30, 2023
The report was developed for the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, as part of their review of the Ten Year Tobacco Control Strategy for Northern Ireland (2012-2022). The report has two elements – the first element analysed Health Survey Northern Ireland data from 2018-2019, with the second element analysing current policy.
The Health Care Blog
JUNE 27, 2022
The problem is accelerating as health insurers have pushed skimpy plans with deductibles that can legally reach $8,700 a year per individual. As I documented with Tenet Health Care Systems and their Conifer Collection System in 2018, the debt business has bailed out poor hospital practices and medical group mismanagement more than once.
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