KFF Health News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Cracking that code requires a separate document. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFFan independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Sounds great. ” “What does that mean?

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 27, 2022

Based on documents leaked by Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower at the U.S. Public Health Service, the then 29-year-old journalist and the only woman on the team, reported that the federal government let hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years in order to study the impact of the disease on the human body.

Academic and Research Institutions 98

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Institute of Public Health

MAY 30, 2023

The policy analysis outlined the current policy landscape in relation to smoking and mental ill health in the UK and Ireland. We used the READ approach * (Dalglish et al, 2020) to collate and compare relevant health policies at local and national level. Health Policy and Planning 35 (10) 1424–1431.

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Bamboo News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

2024, Bamboo Health took part in the Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference (MESC) 2024 conference in Louisville, KY, which centered on Medicaid systems and related health policy.

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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.

Health Policy 105

Health Policy 105

The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Best known among the documented tragedies of the 19th century is the Cherokee Trail of Tears. While immunologic susceptibility unquestionably played a role in the event, the forced expulsion of the Cherokees from Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, in three phases was a complex and multi-faceted disaster.

Water 98

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 24, 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.

Health Policy 98

Health Policy 98

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

This can throw considerable light on our understanding of contemporary health dynamics and the social determinants of health. Previous research has tried to document how diverse a given cause of death profile is.

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PHAB

JULY 11, 2024

The Implementation Center Program aims to benefit public health agencies across the country, whether directly through participation in the program or indirectly through resources such as guidance documents, webinars, and other offerings that synthesize findings and emerging lessons learned from the program.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Treasury: “There’s very robust, strong economic literature that documents the positive effects of early childhood education. Even worse, lack of preschool has lifelong impacts on children’s development. She quotes Catherine Wolfram at the U.S. Educating kids has all these benefits for the rest of society.”.

Maternal and Child Health 98

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A resilient, well-funded, and equitable public health infrastructure is essential to addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes for urban populations nationwide. It is well documented that federally-funded, no-cost vaccines led to increased uptake during the height of the COVID pandemic.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Division management did not have formal procedures in place to track the deficiencies and perform a documented, formal review to ensure the verifications occurred and were documented, the audit reads. DHHS failed to verify that 37 percent of 612 identified deficiencies were ever corrected.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

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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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The RCM Industry, on behalf of physician and hospital providers, and Optum Insight have locked horns in what could be called The War of the Robots–as dueling AI systems fought over the documentation, approval and payment of trillions of dollars in medical payments.

Healthcare Systems and Hospitals 59

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Those standards evolve and improve as clinical medicine advances. 3) high levels of collegiality and mutual trust At its base, quality patient care requires collaboration, and that collaboration cannot take place without high levels of trust-both in clinical judgment and behavior.

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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Ageing and Health Health Policy 69

HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 30, 2024

This moment was captured as part of an exhibit on how residents view community health. Photovoice aims to spotlight public health The team turned to Photovoice , a research method created in the 1990s, when researchers asked women in rural China to document their lives for a year to better explain their needs and experiences to policymakers.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Saying that there is no quality data about the plans is another MedPac falsehood (MPF) and, as they so often are, that particular falsehood is disproved quickly and easily by their own documents. In the final section of this year’s report where they were asked by Congress to do a report on the quality of care in the Special Needs Plans.

Health Policy 122

Health Policy 122

KFF Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

KFF Health News, partnering with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Shatterproof , a national nonprofit focused on addiction, undertook a yearlong investigation to find out. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

of the Alliance of Community Health Plans , told The New York Times: “It is going to be exceedingly difficult for most health plans to implement this in four days.” What documentation needs to be submitted (receipts, product codes, pictures of the test, etc.), and how, are still unclear, and will vary between health insurers.

Health Policy 105

Health Policy 105

The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Two studies published in Cell last week document the presence of fungi in cancer tumors. . ———— The next set of studies are, if anything, even more startling. It turns out that cancer has a microbiome. And a mycobiome. Cancer tumors are filled with microbes, particularly fungi.

Health Policy 94

Health Policy 94

The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Two studies published in Cell last week document the presence of fungi in cancer tumors. . ———— The next set of studies are, if anything, even more startling. It turns out that cancer has a microbiome. And a mycobiome. Cancer tumors are filled with microbes, particularly fungi.

Health Policy 98

Health Policy 98

KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To discover how millions in opioid settlement funds are being spent in Idaho, you can visit the state attorney general’s website , which hosts 91 documents from state and local entities getting the money. Public Health District No. Cracking that code requires a separate document. “What does that mean?

Mental Health and Public Health 140

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As law enforcement operations expand, health-care providers on the ground say the efforts are making people sicker. Homeless people are skipping medical appointments, losing their medications, and having their IDs, birth certificates and other vital documents thrown away, slowing efforts to get them indoors. Learn more about KFF.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 12, 2022

She is currently Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, but also spent years in government, and was on President Obama’s Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health. By MIKE MAGEE. Dr. Linda Rosenstock has an M.D.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Dr Drew Harris (@ drewaharris ), a health policy and population health educator, tweeted a modified version of a CDC graphic showing how protective measures could be used to slow daily cases of a disease. I’m one of the people behind that GIF. It was inspired by a tweet I saw in late February 2020.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

If he accepted temporary shelter, he’d risk missing an important appointment with his street medicine case manager, who was due to meet him at his tent in the morning to help him secure a low-income housing unit with wraparound services — and he worried about losing his medications, ID, and other vital documents again in another homeless sweep.

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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. Army faced at the close of WW II, specifically when it came to rebuilding Germany and Japan, hopefully into stable democracies.

Ageing and Health 122

Ageing and Health Health Policy 122

The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Physician time in helping manage ACOs and in minutely documenting all those core measures is invariably costed at zero.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The changes from the last iteration are small —the difference of a few amino acids, like a few letter edits in a Word document. Yes, public health policy is inherently political. After all, health policy isn’t just based on science but also on culture, values, history, and psychology.

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Health Policy 59

The Hill

DECEMBER 15, 2024

It didnt entirely address the underlying reasons why care is so expensive, which include prescription drug prices and provider reimbursements, said Cynthia Cox, a vice president at health policy research nonprofit KFF. A Gallup poll released last week showed Americans positive view of the quality of health care in the U.S.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

After all, the goal of the CDC now isn’t just to maximize benefits versus harms, it is to also mitigate health inequities as the ethics table from that document makes clear.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFFan independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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