How Did So Many Nonprofit Hospitals Become So Profitable?
In June the Private Equity Stakeholders Project released a new report documenting more than 500 joint ventures between private equity firms and U.S. nonprofit hospitals.
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Read more: Why It Matters: HR1’s Change to Medicaid Waiver Budget Neutrality Rules Why It Matters: HR1’s Change to Medicaid Waiver Budget Neutrality Rules
The 2025 budget reconciliation bill (“HR1” or “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) significantly amended Medicaid, the federal public health insurance program for low-income people. HR1 has garnered significant attention surrounding new rules like work reporting requirements that limit the ACA’s Medicaid eligibility expansion.
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Read more: Medical Debt is Bad, But Hospitals Make It So Much Worse Medical Debt is Bad, But Hospitals Make It So Much Worse
Medical debt has become a fixture in our health care marketplace, with 41 percent of working-age Americans reportedly struggling to pay their medical bills.
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Read more: Fall 2024 Health Law Workshops Fall 2024 Health Law Workshops
The Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. The workshop is led by Professor I. Glenn Cohen, and presenters come from a wide range of disciplines and departments. Harvard graduate students may register to take the workshop for course…
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Read more: A Disproportionate Share Payment Calculation Case in the Post-Chevron Era A Disproportionate Share Payment Calculation Case in the Post-Chevron Era
By Zack Buck Yet another case that examines the authority of administrative agencies to interpret health care laws will make its way to the Supreme Court next term. And the case could have major implications for hospital financing as well. In June 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cert in Advocate Christ Medical, et al.…
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Read more: Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health Conditions Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health Conditions
This article will explore the development of Food is Medicine and its limitations, and briefly offer recommendations for successful Food is Medicine initiatives.
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Read more: Power and Money in Global Health: A conversation with Tim Schwab about “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire” Power and Money in Global Health: A conversation with Tim Schwab about “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire”
RecordingIn this interactive, hybrid event, Alicia Ely Yamin, JD, MPH, PhD, moderated a conversation with investigative journalist and author Tim Schwab about his latest book, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire. Audiences, both in-person and online, had the opportunity to join in the discussion. This event was part of HGHI’s Scholarly…
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Read more: Fall 2023 Health Law Workshops Fall 2023 Health Law Workshops
The Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. The workshop is led by Professor I. Glenn Cohen, and presenters come from a wide range of disciplines and departments. Harvard graduate students may register to take the workshop for course…
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Read more: Judging in the Pandemic – A Malawian Perspective Judging in the Pandemic – A Malawian Perspective
The Malawian courts largely have embraced the human rights obligations within the context of public health emergencies detailed in the Principles.
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Read more: Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies
A brief analysis of the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies and a case for their utility.
