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Prepaying Your Baby’s Birth? New Healthcare Provider Trend Highlights Rising Costs and Financial Impacts for Patients, Families
A recent article by KFF Health News highlighted a growing trend in maternity care: Pregnant individuals are being asked to prepay thousands of dollars for prenatal and delivery services
before their due dates.Categories: Blog, What's New
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After the Pandemic, Nurses and Other Healthcare Workers Are Demanding More … And Getting It
From 2022 to late 2024, thousands of healthcare workers in nearly twenty states have walked off the job, demanding better compensation, higher staffing levels, and more responsive management.
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Societal Cost and Benefit from Safe Babies Safe Moms: Towards Measuring Social Return on Investment
This study combines findings from several prior research reports prepared during the SBSM research program. We have extended our empirical work on cost-effectiveness into a nascent analysis of the potential societal return on investment in SBSM, by comparing the incremental program costs and savings immediately after delivery alongside the potential benefits from payer or societal view.
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Continuity between Prenatal and Labor and Delivery Care Serving a High-Risk Urban Population
This brief study measures continuity between prenatal and delivery care in Safe Babies Safe Moms’ (SBSM) population and explores the association of that continuity to patient demographics and health history, birth outcomes, and delivery costs in SBSM’s inaugural year.
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Looking Back To Move Forward
A compilation of all HCFI’s publications featured in the COVID-19 Post Acute collection, organized around four overarching themes.
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COVID-19 Continues to Intensify Long-Standing Nursing and Staffing Shortages (Long-Term Care Workforce 2022)
Providers, as well as state and federal policy makers are grappling with rapid innovations to restore adequate staff during the pandemic and beyond.
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Medical Debt…Another Risk for Low-Wage Essential Health Care Workers
Relief from Racial Disparities in Medical Debt and Medical Financial Insecurity Add to the Reasons to Restructure Low-Wage “Essential” Health Care Jobs March 4, 2022 Carol B. Davis, PhD, MBA
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More Perspectives on Low-Wage Workers in High Demand
December 2021 $15 Minimum Wage Would Raise the Wage for One Third of the Home Health Aide Workforce by 2025, but the average worker would still earn below a Living Wage in nearly every state.
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