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NASHP Model Act to Limit Out-of-Network Provider Rates

NASHP

1002(32), but excludes any coverage by Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Veterans Administration, Indian Health Services, and the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan.

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What is better: public or private provision of health care?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

This is a question that can be answered empirically but doing so is challenging. While cross-country comparisons are feasible for comparing public and private health care provisions, often there are many other differences between health care systems across country.

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

KHN

In the health care sphere, private equity has tended to find legal ways to bill more for medical services: trimming services that don’t turn a profit, cutting staff, or employing personnel with less training to perform skilled jobs — actions that may put patients at risk, critics say. Petris Center at UC-Berkeley.

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

KHN

In the health care sphere, private equity has tended to find legal ways to bill more for medical services: trimming services that don’t turn a profit, cutting staff, or employing personnel with less training to perform skilled jobs — actions that may put patients at risk, critics say. Petris Center at UC-Berkeley.

Doctors 52