…has hampered the ability to directly care for veterans. But under President Biden, the VA has decided to deal with this problem by contracting it out. The VA-run Veterans Health…

…and Hospitals This partnership has had a substantial impact on patient debt, according to a KHN analysis of billing and contracting records obtained through public records requests. UNC Health, which…

…backlash over some of Project 2025’s work, including draft executive orders that would use the Insurrection Act to deploy the U.S. military against demonstrators. As The Washington Postreported in December, Trump campaign senior adviser…

…tradelines. A large majority of the industry’s revenue is generated by firms contracting with creditors and debt buyers to collect their debts on a contingency fee basis. The CFPB’s survey…

…“existential threat” to the VHA’s continued existence. Participants in the meeting, held in early January, included current high-level VA officials, plus representatives of the military and private-sector health systems. Their…

…Still that is better than their readings for virtually all of 2023. More generally I would say this points to a manufacturing sector that is neither expanding nor contracting, but…

…Insurers can gain access to these “risk dollars” — now approximately $150 billion per year — by acquiring providers and contracting directly with the government. This wave of payer-led consolidation…

…taking precautionary measures under the guise of a freedom to do what they wish to do mentality. Thousands of people paid with their lives after contracting Covid-19. Many of them…

…no validity as a benchmark for this kind of price setting. Consolidation, anticompetitive contracting terms with payers, and out-of-network “surprise billing” practices among hospital-based physicians are just a few of…

…the war, government contracting favored those companies that could produce big orders of the mule shoes, rifles, rain slickers, coffee, and all the other products that kept the troops supplied….