by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 5, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Washington state’s government said on Tuesday it had purchased a three-year supply of abortion pill mifepristone as a Texas judge mulls a nationwide ban on the medication’s sale. Governor Jay Inslee says he ordered the Washington Department of Corrections...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 4, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
A Modern Healthcare article discusses the value of community health workers (CHW) and the critical role they may play in helping 15 million individuals sign up for other coverage when Medicaid redeterminations restart for the first time in two-and-a-half years. A...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 4, 2023 | M&A, Tea Leaves
Between 2010 and 2018, 17 percent of unprofitable rural hospitals merged with another organization, while 7 percent closed, according to an analysis from Health Affairs using data from 325 unprofitable hospitals. Of the financially unstable hospitals that didn’t close...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 4, 2023 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
The homepages of nearly all U.S. hospital websites shared data with third-party trackers in 2021, according to research published Monday in Health Affairs. Of 3,747 hospitals included in the 2019 American Hospital Association (AHA) annual survey, 98.6 percent of their...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 4, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
A report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that inflation and higher health spending contributed to monthly premiums for Affordable Care Act coverage increasing an average of 3.4 percent between 2022 and 2023, reversing a trend of recent declines. Some of...
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