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Addressing the Healthcare Needs of Justice-Involved People

NonProfit Quarterly

Without access to adequate healthcare, including mental healthcare, these individuals are unlikely to receive the care needed to survive or to heal before reentering society. A law passed in 1965—the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy —prohibits incarcerated people from receiving Medicaid benefits.

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Is Your Health Insurer Breaking the Law?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AntonioGuillem on istock.com Despite hundreds of state laws meant to protect health insurance consumers—patients, in other words—from denials of legitimate claims for coverage, health insurers are routinely flouting these laws and illegally denying coverage in even life-threatening situations.

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How Private Equity Is Swallowing Up Health Care—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

Understanding the role private equity is playing in health care is critical; only then can we begin to design solutions to the healthcare system that center public and community ownership. trillion is spent on healthcare (18.3 These purchases can have devastating impacts on the quality of healthcare.

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Healthcare Fundraisers Impacted By Non-Compete Rules

The NonProfit Times

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a ban on employment non-compete restrictions across most sectors of the economy including healthcare. However, nonprofit leaders in healthcare should begin reviewing their employment contracts and policies now to determine how the rule could affect them.

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The Future of Fundraising: 3 Tips to Leverage Nonprofit AI

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Sector-specific fundraising needs informed by unique data, such as managing alumni giving at universities or grateful patient programs for healthcare organizations. Legal compliance to remain aware of and abide by applicable AI laws and regulations. Collaboration to learn from other organizations committed to responsible AI use.

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The Intersection of AI and Healthcare: Transforming Patient Outcomes through Software Development

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

The Intersection of AI and Healthcare: Transforming Patient Outcomes through Software Development While the capacities and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) served as discussion points for decades, they are fast becoming realities with which nearly everyone must face today. Examples of this relationship exist in AI used in healthcare.

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Why Ending the Public Health Emergency Is Not Progress—And What Funders Can Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

It is estimated that, with this change, 15 million people could lose this essential healthcare coverage , bringing the most harm to people with disabilities, people of color, trans people, and poor people. Activist and author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha calls this “ The Great Forgetting.”

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