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Health Care Price Tags Won’t Find You the Best Doctor

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Say you want to know which baseball players provide the most value for the big dollars they’re being paid. A Google search quickly yields analytics. But suppose your primary care physician just diagnosed you with cancer. What will a search for a “high value” cancer doctor tell you?

Not much.

Public concern over bloated and unintelligible medical bills has prompted pushback ranging from an exposé by a satirical TV show to a government edict that hospitals list their prices online.

From urgent care to pharmacists, the struggle to get my kids antibiotics drove me to tears

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Early one recent Sunday morning, my kids woke up not feeling well. Due to a health notice from their school, I knew I needed to get them to urgent care for medicine right away or they wouldn’t be allowed to go to school the next day.

I am a single mother. I am also an entrepreneur, working in women’s leadership training and consulting. Keeping my kids home from school for a day means I can’t work. As the sole financial supporter of my children, not working is not an option.

A voice for families in need

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Ten years before Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford opened the doors of its new building, the architects and hospital staff gathered a panel of its most important audience: the Family Advisory Council, a group of parents and caregivers of young patients who were treated at the hospital.

Transition Period for Prescription Form Requirements Begins

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In response to providers’ recent challenges implementing new requirements for opioid prescriptions, the governor has signed into law a bill that allows a transition period before the requirements become effective.

New Resources Help Meet Serious Mental Illness Needs in Disasters

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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released a series of resources intended to help providers incorporate, in their disaster planning, strategies to care for patients with serious mental illness.

Webinar To Address Network Provider Status Under Hospital Fee Program

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On March 14 from 9-10:30 a.m. (PT), the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) will host a second webinar to provide guidance to health plans and hospitals on changes to the network provider requirements under the Hospital Fee Program.

2019 Federal Regulatory Calendar Available

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CHA has issued a regulatory calendar outlining anticipated federal action in 2019. Calendar timelines are derived from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Unified Agenda and include the regulations on which CHA has already submitted comments or anticipates doing so.