A health policy researcher explains how doctors determine their pay rates, and the system that lets them do it.
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Even if you’re well covered, your area may struggle long after a disaster if most locals don’t have enough home and/or contents insurance. Search our map by postcode or suburb name to check your area.
Health researchers hope a new regulation requiring hospitals to post their prices will tame soaring health care costs, but compliance and standardization are hurdles.
New payment models may mean more of the people who need these treatments can get them.
One interviewee in our study described having compiled a database of more than 150 interactions with insurers or their representatives over the two months since they were caught up in a disaster.
Increasingly severe losses for insurers due to climate change could result in a global financial crisis.
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Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Queen's University, Ontario
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Precision Medicine and Emerging Biotechnologies, Arizona State University
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Policy Analyst, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
