from The Lily that examines how the role of doulas intersects with private and public insurance, race, socioeconomic status, policy and the medical community.
After protests spawned a national conversation about racism last summer, CVS Health began to take a hard look at what the company was doing to address disparities.
In July, CVS Health announced that it would invest about $600 million to “advance employee, community and public policy initiatives that address inequality faced by Black people and other disenfranchised communities.”
The company decided to focus on several areas with major disparities, including maternal and child health, said Joanne Armstrong, the chief medical officer for women’s health and genomics at CVS Health. Throughout the fall and winter, Armstrong met with employees to learn more about their birth experiences. Armstrong and her team also reviewed research about doulas, who support people during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. Num
Ensure availability of medicines for treatment of black fungus, Sonia tells Modi
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In a letter, Congress chief says there is acute shortage of drug
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In a letter, Congress chief says there is acute shortage of drug
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has urged him to ensure there is adequate production of essential medicines and free care for those in need of treatment for mucormycosis (black fungus).
The Centre has asked States to declare mucormycosis an epidemic under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
Ms. Gandhi pointed out that there was an acute shortage of Liposomal Amphotericin B, which is key for treatment of the disease.
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Laws to Curb Surprise Medical Bills Might Be Inflating Health Care Costs
A patient waits to be admitted to the emergency room at the Los Alamitos Medical Center in Los Alamitos, California. Researchers worry that some state laws to protect patients from surprise medical bills, which often follow emergency medical situations, could inflate overall health care costs.
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New state laws designed to protect patients from being hit with steep out-of-network medical bills may contribute to higher health care costs and premiums, some researchers warn.
Lawmakers and advocates who pushed for surprise billing laws say the measures have protected consumers from some of the most egregious bills, which can climb into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. But some researchers recently have raised alarms that doctors and other medical providers are leveraging state laws that rely on arbitration to increase in-network fees,
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Biz Groups Back PBMs In North Dakota Preemption Fight
Law360 (May 19, 2021, 7:44 PM EDT) Insurance and business groups are throwing their weight behind Pharmaceutical Care Management Association s Eighth Circuit argument that ERISA limits North Dakota s ability to govern pharmacy benefit managers, which connect pharmacies with insurers on behalf of employee benefit plans.
In amicus briefs filed Tuesday, the U.S. Chamber, America s Health Insurance Plans and the Association of Federal Health Organizations argued that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts two PBM oversight laws adopted by North Dakota in 2017, and that upholding the legislation would have serious, negative ramifications for benefit plans, as AFHO put it.