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‘Approved or denied’: Health care providers say insurers too often deny care for profit

NC Health News

The following six months of chemotherapy treatments included five hospitalizations, the loss of her hair, and the inability to care for herself or her children. The goal for insurers is to avoid unnecessary or inappropriate utilization of health services. Overtreatment is a problem in the U.S. Theres precedent for this.

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Here's what we're getting ourselves into

Your Local Epidemiologist

’s hearing for Health and Human Secretary of the United States is soon. the rise of chronic disease), seems willing to push back against the food industry, and has tapped into the frustrations many Americans have with health institutions. trillion agency and far-reaching public health policy. .”

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. These systems demonstrated that they are capable of producing, rapidly and on demand, demonstrable social benefit.