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Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

Arizona’s End of Life and Advanced Care Planning benefit is referenced in its MCO contracts and further described in state regulations. Adults may receive benefits along with curative care until they choose to receive hospice. Children may access services along with both curative and hospice care.

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Key Healthcare Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023

Sheppard Health Law

trillion in funding across a range of domestic initiatives, including certain appropriations to healthcare and related programs. Recertification of Eligibility for Hospice Care. Key Funding of Related Healthcare Programs. On December 29, 2022 , President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (the “Act”).

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

“If data is everywhere, how do you protect it?” This thought has been on my mind well before the Change Healthcare hacks (that’s plural) with which U.S. health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. Hospice is a service that isn’t leveraged enough in our country.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. Some injured patients are turning to the courts in hopes of holding the firms accountable for what the patients view as lapses in care or policies that favor profits over patients.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. Some injured patients are turning to the courts in hopes of holding the firms accountable for what the patients view as lapses in care or policies that favor profits over patients.

Doctors 52