Trump admin considering mandate for more healthcare price transparency
The Trump administration is weighing whether to require hospitals, doctors and other healthcare providers to disclose negotiated rates with insurers. According to the Wall Street Journal: Mandating...
View ArticleThe reality of hospital system monopolies
I write a lot about hospital consolidations and the monopoly problem in health care (See here, here, here, here, and here). It’s widely accepted that hospital system consolidation and physician...
View ArticleThe grim reality of some “non-profit” hospitals
Earlier this week, I posted on the blog about a hospital CFO touting his hospital system’s monopoly power as a way to extract profitable reimbursement from the insurers in the area. This is a dim...
View ArticleLarge sum secured for hospitals in coronavirus relief package
Things could still change, but as of mid-day on Wednesday, it seems that the Congressional relief package for coronavirus response is all but done. Hospitals and the rest of the health care system have...
View ArticleHospitals to receive advanced Medicare payments
Hospitals around the country are preparing to handle the onslaught of patients who need care due to the spreading coronavirus. Some hospitals, like those in New York, are already facing a massive wave...
View ArticleCMS relaxes more regulations to help hospitals fight coronavirus
At both the state and federal level, much of the coronavirus policy response has focused on deregulatory efforts to assist the effort of frontline health care workers. Lawmakers and state leaders...
View ArticleHow can hospitals better prepare for a potential second wave of Coronavirus?
When the Coronavirus began to spread in the U.S., no one knew what to expect. Public health officials weren’t sure what infections, hospitalizations, or deaths would look like in our country compared...
View ArticleNHRMC agrees to partnership with Novant Health, UNC Health
In some non-COVID related health news, the New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) is moving forward with its proposed research and clinical partnership with Novant Health and UNC Health. The New...
View ArticleNurses Union Battle is Bigger than Mission Hospital
North Carolina is in the middle of a union battle at Mission Hospital in Asheville. On September 4, 2020, The Daily News reported on the union ballot initiative’s potential implications across the...
View ArticleTackling the Unhealthy Obsession with the ‘Health of the Nation’
Maureen Mullarkey writes at the Federalist about the troubling history of governments focusing on the nation’s health. Twentieth-century authoritarian regimes were obsessed with cleansing the “unfit”...
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