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Medicare is experimenting with how it pays for kidney transplants

Association of Health Care Journalists

The American Society of Nephrology , the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network , and consumer advocacy group Families USA offered generally positive comments, with the latter suggesting amendments to promote health equity, data collection and shared decision-making. How does the model work? What are the transparency requirements?

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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.