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Conversations about Cost During Weight-Prioritized Visits in Primary Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Data Set: Semi-structured interviews conducted with clinicians and staff between February 2021 and August 2023 and video recordings of a subset of WPVs. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative study using content analysis to analyze interviews and conversation analysis (CA) to analyze videos.

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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say

Physician's Weekly

Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s budget plan would rapidly push more than 300 financially struggling rural hospitals toward a fiscal cliff, according to researchers who track the facilities’ finances. Medicaid cuts would push them further into financial peril.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. The finances, for us… Our goal is, really, to break even, or even lose a little bit of money, that’s okay, with the goal being that this is very patient-centered. Yeah, Eric: Yeah. Eric: I love that.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

AHRQ research and guidelines played a key role in lowering the incidence of hospital-acquired infections — such as deadly blood infections caused by contaminated IV lines, which fell 28% from 2015 to 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. AHRQ’s remaining leadership was in the dark about Kennedy’s plans, he said.