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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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What would Republican ACA replacement plan look like?
An interview with conservative health care expert Lanhee Chen, co-author of the influential American Enterprise Institute proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Docs try technology to distract, relax kids before surgery
They called it BERT, short for Bedside Entertainment Theater. It looks high-tech, but the whole thing costs about $900 to build. Lucile Packard now has 10 BERT units across the hospital. They’re using it in surgery, of course, but they’re also using it to calm kids getting radiation therapy and MRIs.
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Healthcare reform, ‘Downton Abbey’ style
It closely parallels what’s going on in the U.S. healthcare system today.
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Parents of very premature infants should get counseling, says American Academy Of Pediatrics
The Academy suggests that doctors individualize counseling for parents based on the particular baby’s chances of survival and the family’s goals for their child.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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The shortcomings of delivering mental health parity, even in California
According to a 2015 report, some Kaiser staffers told mental health patients that they were not entitled to long-term individual therapy ever.
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Despite mental health parity law, gaps in compliance, enforcement remain
Enforcement of the parity law was not assigned to any one agency. Instead, it fell to the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury, as well as state insurance commissioners.