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Legislative battle continues over how to address health care costs in North Carolina

NC Health News

The House bill also limits insurers ability to change prior authorization decisions after the care is provided and prevents insurers from requiring prior approval for a particular service if the provider was approved for that same service 80 percent of the time in the last year. How would these changes affect consumer costs?

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Moving beyond “vaguely interested”. Wanless 20 years on.

Sheffield DPH

“Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. in reduced NHS and social care costs and reduced crime Befriending services have been estimated to pay back around £3.75