HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 30, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Can a photograph improve public health? A recent exhibit at the city’s Arts Xchange shared photos and comments illustrating how the people of East Point view health in their community. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The pattern showed that the sickest Medicare Advantage patients were canceling their coverage just as their health needs and the cost of that care rose, the article showed. As a result, MA insurers collectively avoided $10 billion in medical costs that the dropouts incurred from 2016 to 2022, the reporters analysis showed. 11, 2024.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The Office of the State Auditor released its audit of the Department of Health and Human Services oversight of nursing homes, accusing the department of consistently failing to conduct timely inspections and investigations of nursing homes across the state. 1, 2019, through June 30, 2022. In 2018, the U.S.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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Maternal Health Task Force

MARCH 18, 2024

She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. By: Jodian Pinkney , Infectious Diseases Physician.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A recent July 2022 publication where 96.7% Young college age men are a high-risk demographic for vaccine associated myocarditis mRNA vaccine associated myocarditis/myopericarditis is an uncommon, but well-documented issue with COVID vaccines in young adults, particularly after 2nd or 3rd doses, and particularly in otherwise healthy males.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Call for New AMCHP Association Committee Members is Open Through November 8 Are you interested in effecting meaningful change nationally and have your voice heard on maternal and child health (MCH) matters? MacQueen Lecture Award : For innovation in the field of maternal and child health.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

By ELIZABETH BROWN, CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0. During IDIH Week 2022, Catalyst ran a Regional Workshop aiming to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on AHA. ” She’s also a member of the board of directors and the Consumer Health Council for Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

A recent CNN article discusses approval of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 6-17. The CDC director acted after its vaccine advisers on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to support the two dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for kids in this age group.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care. That figure rose to nearly 20% in 2020 during the pandemic.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Covering over 20 million more people, it is the single largest health care program created since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. In fact, the overall rate of uninsured people has not increased significantly during the pandemic, thanks to the safety net of these public health care programs.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

OK, how many of you had on your women-in-power bingo cards that, in 2022, Sheryl Sandberg would be out at Facebook but Queen Elizabeth II would still be Queen? According to the Congressional Research Service , the average age of House Members is 58.4 BY KIM BELLARD. years, of Senators is 64.3; both numbers are trending up.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Even as federal aid poured into state budgets in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, public health leaders warned of a boom-and-bust funding cycle on the horizon as the emergency ended and federal grants sunsetted. Now, that drought has become reality and state governments are slashing budgets that feed local health departments.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. It was the latest in a drumbeat of health issues that she traces to the first months of 2020, when dozens of veterans died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, in one of the country’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreaks at a long-term nursing facility.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Nearly a third of American adults are unsure if emergency contraception like the morning-after pill is legal in their state and 5 percent think it is illegal there, according to a 2023 survey from health policy nonprofit KFF. Wade in 2022, while the morning-after pill remains legal around the country.

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For the most part hospitals and health systems never felt anything like what they dealt with in 2020 when the virus first appeared. Early on, it had a mortality rate that was multiples of the flu virus for almost every age group (even though the absolute risk to the young and healthy was always very low).

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 1, 2022

The Marshall Plan answered the question above, and its success in choosing health services as a starting point was well documented by many in the years to come, including the RAND Corporation. The American Medical Association’s prepared reaction to the June 24, 2022, reversal to Roe v. Wade was direct and immediate.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

If the credits end, 4 million Americans could lose their ACA health insurance and 7.2 Also, hospitals, physicians and other professionals who deliver health care could see a rise in uncompensated care. million enrolled in 2020, according to this Health Affairs article. The enhanced premium tax credits were among the reasons 21.4

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The Hill

DECEMBER 11, 2024

women ages 15 to 49 said they received a family planning service between 2022 to 2023, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics. percent of women in their 20s said they obtained a family planning service between 2022 and 2023.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Linda Duffy, 83, got sick of the games that she says UnitedHealthcare played with health care providers over negotiating contracts. In the fall, UnitedHealthcare and Duke Health ended a months-long standoff over contract negotiations just ahead of a Nov. 1 deadline. 1 deadline. The open enrollment period for Medicare ends Dec.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We are very proud that the Senate came together Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to expand and strengthen the Older Americans Act over the next five years, said Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and ranking member Bill Cassidy, (R-LA) in a joint statement. However, on Dec.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. Research shows Black youth ages 1 to 17 are 18 times as likely to suffer a gun homicide as their white counterparts.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. Research shows Black youth ages 1 to 17 are 18 times as likely to suffer a gun homicide as their white counterparts.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In addition to these two provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, there’s more. Once the Trump administration takes office in January, health care journalists will need to watch whether Congress will move to eliminate or cripple the most significant IRA provision. Mark Fendrick, M.D., Fendrick also commented.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization. We’re being reminded that HIPAA only goes so far , and, in our digital age, that isn’t very far. But, of course, I say “women” and I’m talking about pregnancy/abortion, but in 2022 all of us should be wondering who might be accessing our health information, for what purposes.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of celebrity doctor and failed Senate candidate Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) marks the latest potential shakeup of federal health agencies, and adds new uncertainty to the future of Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.

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