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Declining Charity Care Levels Raise Questions About 340B Hospital Eligibility
The 340B program was created for an important purpose: to help uninsured, needy patients access the medicines they need. However, a new analysis paints a very different picture of how the program is currently operating. While 340B hospitals are tasked with serving vulnerable patients, data show 64 percent of these hospitals provide less charity care than the national average for all hospitals, including for-profit entities. Not only is this low number concerning, it represents a decrease in charity care rates for 340B hospitals since 2011. This begs the question of whether hospitals or patients are benefitting more from the program.
Congress Should Act on Mental Health
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/congress-act-mental-health/
Conventional wisdom says that Congress generally won’t achieve much in a Presidential election year as issues begin to get mired in partisan posturing. But 2016 has been anything but a conventional election year, and this Congress has the opportunity to pass two important bipartisan health bills this year.
We’re talking about the mental health bills before the House and the Senate as well as the Medicare chronic care legislation under development by the Senate Finance Committee. These bipartisan proposals could improve the lives of millions of Americans and move our health care system in the direction of better integrated and higher value care. It’s time that Congress act on them.
Chronic disease already accounts for the vast majority of health care costs in Medicare and our health care system in general. Without action, the problem will only get worse.
Some Democrats Aren’t Giving Up on Universal Health Care
Democrats should push for universal health coverage ahead of the November election, several health care advocates urged the committee drafting the Democratic National Committee’s platform at a recent session focused on health policy.
Their liberal health care proposals echo a similar theme from an environment-themed session the same day, in which activists criticized DNC members for not pushing harder on climate change.
The hearing was part of a series of regional events held by the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee “designed to engage every voice in the party.”
Too many people are still uninsured six years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, said many of the advocates who spoke before the committee in Phoenix on Friday. Still more are underinsured, they said, and people are struggling to pay for rising premiums and to afford prescription drugs.
Office Chatter: Your Doctor Will See You In This Telemedicine Kiosk
Less than a decade ago, telemedicine was mainly used by hospitals and clinics for secure doctor-to-doctor consultations. But today, telemedicine has become a more common method for patients to receive routine care at home or wherever they are — often on their cellphones or personal computers.
Hospital Valuation: Analyzing the Correlation of Hospital Size and Deal Multiple
So you want to become an interim executive?
$450K Cap Proposed on Hospital CEO Salaries in California
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/06/14/450k-cap-proposed-on-hospital-ceo-salaries-in-california/
One of America’s largest labor unions is taking a third attempt at capping hospital CEO salaries. The latest proposal by Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-United Healthcare Workers West would give authority to the California attorney general’s office to oversee a salary ceiling equal to the compensation of the President of the United States, or $450,000 a year.
Cartoon – It’s Summer
