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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 February 2022
... “somewhat worried” about unexpected medical bills (Lopes et al. 2020 ). Even for those who have not received such bills, the threat is always there. The No Surprises Act aims to eliminate surprise bills that result from receiving health services from out-of-network providers. Not all surprise bills...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (3): 405–434.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Katherine T. McCabe Abstract Context: Nearly half of the adults in the United States have received an unexpected medical bill in recent years. While government, provider, and insurance policies related to unexpected medical expenses receive attention in the media, this study focuses on variation...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (6): 951–968.
Published: 01 December 2023
...-and-payment-parameters-for-2023 . Hoadley Jack , and Lucia Kevin . 2022 . “ The No Surprises Act: A Bipartisan Achievement to Protect Consumers from Unexpected Medical Bills .” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 47 , no. 1 : 93 – 109 . Hoadley Jack , O'Brien Madeline...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (3): 329–350.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Kevin . 2022 . “ The No Surprises Act: A Bipartisan Achievement to Protect Consumers from Unexpected Medical Bills .” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 47 , no. 1 : 93 – 109 . Hopkins Daniel J . 2023 . Stable Condition: Elites’ Limited Influence on Health Care Attitudes...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 February 2023
... patients with large and unexpected medical bills for their share of uncovered costs. At least three states (Maine, Virginia, and Washington) are using the data from their APCDs to enforce this new law by identifying benchmark prices for key services and assessing out-of-network billing practices (Carman et...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (2): 352–365.
Published: 01 April 1983
... sickness funds shared a nationwide panel, consisting of most of the medical profession. The sickness funds paid global sums to the panel managers, who distributed the money according to fee-schedules; but the doctor could not extra-bill a patient covered by the statutory scheme (the RVO...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (6): 1039–1045.
Published: 01 December 2006
... for community-rated premiums and open enrollment, broadening the risk pool as far as possible. The second conception defined fair prices and practices in terms of expected future costs — a sort of actuarial fairness. This definition legitimated medical underwriting and preexisting condition clauses...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (5): 959–968.
Published: 01 October 2000
... the last hospital in, say, Patterson, New Jersey, go under— even if it has not paid its telephone bills in eight months. (Yes, that really happened.) And someone needs to worry about such communal matters as medical education, drug safety, and infectious diseases. Second, once competition heats up...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (3): 531–550.
Published: 01 June 1993
.... Brookings Review 9 ( 3 ): 40 -45. AMA (American Medical Association). 1990 . Health Access America: The AMA Proposal to Improve Access to Affordable, Quality Health Care. Chicago, IL: American Medical Association. Bergthold , Linda . 1990 . Purchasing Power in Health: Business, the State...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (5): 859–860.
Published: 01 October 2008
... and Brian Kaskie’s article then looks at the other end of the life spectrum, as they examine why it is that so many of us die painful deaths without access to good palliative care or pain-management pro- grams. Imhof and Kaskie point out that state medical boards have a signif- icant impact...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2010) 35 (5): 701–704.
Published: 01 October 2010
...; payment reforms to reward performance and outcomes rather than extra services; and an array of initiatives that involve the Medicare drug benefit, long-­term care insur- ance, medical malpractice, and public health and wellness programs. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 35, No. 5...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1995) 20 (1): 99–135.
Published: 01 February 1995
... 36 ( 4 ): 823 -79. Bureau of National Affairs. 1994 . Health Care Reform: Mitchell Bill Would “Gut” State Laws, Promote Malpractice Suits, Senators Say. BNA Health Care Daily 19 August. Danzon , P. 1985 . Medical Malpractice: Theory, Evidence and Public Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (2): 271–286.
Published: 01 April 1993
... of vicious sociological bills into the state legislature year after year.” Blue Cross advertisements, pamphlets, radio programs, and publications insisted that neither the rich nor the poor con- fronted difficulties in obtaining medical services, the rich because they could easily afford it, the poor...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (3): 375–385.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... . 2010 . Democrats Ask, Can Health Care Bill Be Saved? New York Times , February 5 . Skidmore M. J. 1970 . Medicare and the American Rhetoric of Reconciliation . Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press . Truman H. S. 1955 . Memoirs . Vol. 1 , Year of Decisions...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (5): 821–858.
Published: 01 October 2003
..., and John P. McIver. 1993 . Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States . New York: Cambridge University Press. Fein, Sidney. 1998 . The Kerr-Mills Act: Medical Care for the Indigent in Michigan, 1960–1965. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 53 (3): 285...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 February 2019
..., Policy and Law 31 , no. 5 : 887 – 944 . Karpf David . 2012 . The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy . New York : Oxford University Press . Kirby William H. 1979 . “ The Need for Uniform Medical Procedural Terminology for Reporting...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (2): 281–293.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Medical Association, and the City of Anchorage Department of Health and Human Services — mobi- lized their membership to support the bill through testimony and direct lobbying of individual legislators. Representatives of these advocacy groups argued that the Governor’s Bill adequately addressed...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (2): 187–219.
Published: 01 April 2007
... of Congress Assess the Medicare Bill: Senator Kennedy Replies. New England Journal of Medicine 350:747 – 749. Levitz, Jennifer, and David Armstrong. 2006. Low-Income Seniors Get Tangled in Unexpected Medicare Glitch. Wall Street Journal, January 13. Marmor, Theodore R. 2000. The Politics...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (2): 357–374.
Published: 01 April 2021
... administration's attempt to convert Medicaid into a block grant program through the waiver process is illegal and, if implemented, would leave thousands of people without necessary medical care. This fact, combined with failed legislative efforts to block grant Medicaid during the last forty years, highlights...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 24 (2): 357–382.
Published: 01 April 1999
... does this, contributions may be distributed differently based on these distinct types of issues. An example of a vote categorized as narrow is H. J. Res. 631. This bill would have barred the use of Federal Trade Commission funds to inves- tigate or make rules relating to the medical profession...