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Patient brokers prey on those struggling with addiction; new campaign works to stop them

NC Health News

Patient brokering, sometimes called body brokering, can take several forms, according to the Dayspring Foundation formerly the Eleanor Health Foundation which supports addressing the social determinants of health within the recovery ecosystem. Department of Health and Human Services and the Alcohol/Drug Council of N.C.

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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.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Public Health and the Dairy Cow in the Room

KFF Health News

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” As a result, public health is closely tied to things like the environment, nutrition, and safety.

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Hospital Gun-Violence Prevention Programs May Be Caught in US Funding Crossfire

KFF Health News

She rushed to check on him at a hospital run by Denver Health, the city’s safety-net system, but she was unable to get information from emergency room workers, who complained that she was creating a disturbance. “It’s critical we address the social determinants of health and then try to change the equation.”

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What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

NC Health News

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.