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Six dollars and fifty cents. That is, give or take, the largest fine the federal government has ever levied on a Medicare Advantage insurer per patient enrolled. It happened once, in 2019. Most years the figure stays below three dollars. Meanwhile the same insurers receive, on average, somewhere in the neighbourhood of $15,000 per enrollee annually from the federal government. Do the arithmetic a…

A new study from health policy researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health suggests that while regulators have several tools at their disposal to penalize insurance plans that break the rules, they rely mostly on relatively small financial penalties that may do little to deter violations.

IntroductionPatient and public involvement (PPI) in pricing and reimbursement (P&R) procedures is increasingly recognized as essential for strengthening the quality, legitimacy, and patient-centredness of healthcare decision-making. However, implementation remains heterogeneous across countries and data on concrete practices, barriers, and enablers are fragmented. This study aimed to map inte…

Health and Life Science Law Society (HaLS) is a student organization at at Berkeley Law dedicated to supporting students interested in biotechnology law, health policy, and related areas in the […]

Readiness scan Before you submit to JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), pressure-test the manuscript. Run the Free Readiness Scan to catch the issues most likely to stop the paper before peer review. Quick answer: JAMA occupies a distinctive position among top medical journals. While NEJM focuses tightly on practice-changing clinical trials and The Lancet emphasizes global health …

Significant changes in federal policy slated to take effect in the coming months could disrupt health care coverage, costs, and access to care for millions of people, according to experts who spoke at a Studio event at Harvard Chan School.

What makes some health policies feel controversial while others are embraced as common sense? It’s not the data — it’s the narrative. Strong public health narratives are why people today overwhelmingly accept drunk-driving laws or tobacco regulations that keep airplanes, restaurants, and other common spaces smoke-free. But those policies — and the narratives surrounding them […] The post Changing…

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 125-128, PDF Published 13 May 2025 Tsung-Ling Lee and Yi-Li Lee Taiwan, with a population of 23.56 million, implemented a nationwide single-payer health care system in 1995—the National Health…

Don’t miss our first Brownbag Seminar of the semester, this Wednesday, February 5th, 2025, 12pm, 310 Social Sciences, with Rebecca Staiger, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Dr. Staiger will present her work, “Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians’ Practice Locations Before and After Dobbs.” Further event details are here. The Human Mortality […] The post Week…

As the new Labour Government meets for its party conference in Liverpool this week, we have distilled evidence from our last decade of research into arts and health to inform how we collectively move forward. The post Where next for arts and health policy? first appeared on SBRG .

The federal government is standing up a new agency, Advanced Research Projects Agency in Health (ARPA-H) – and investing billions of dollars – to translate ... Read More Source

In this episode, Sujani sits down with Gwyneth Eliasson, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health. They discuss how public health and law intersect, Gwyneth’s experiences in academia and teaching, and advice for anyone interested in health policy and these fields. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: How Gwyneth found her way ... Read more

Health policy expert, Rosemarie Day, played a leading role in Massachusetts’ health care reformin 2006, which later became the model for the Affordable Care Act. She knows her stuff.I recommend her book, Marching Towards Coverage, to anyone who is looking to understandthe complicated, messy history of US health care, but who doesn’t have the time ... Read more

Location: Online Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 12:00pm Developing Public Health Policy Research Frameworks with Concept Mapping Marjorie MacDonald, R.N., M.Sc., Ph.D., Applied Public Health Chair and Bernadette M. Pauly, RN, PhD, Associate Director, Research and Scholarship, School of Nursing, University of Victoria, British Columbia Click here to register for the webinar.

How can we use the news to move public health policy forward? Media advocacy, the strategic use of mass media to advance public health policy, is one important tool for advocates. Media advocacy helps practitioners use the power of the media to urge decision makers to support policies that make our communities, schools, workplaces, stores, […] The post Using media advocacy in public health policy…