Commission weighs how to use $250,000 OIC proviso for actuarial modeling to inform financing and reimbursement Jen Scott explained a $250,000 Office of the Insurance Commissioner proviso intended to fund actuarial or economic modeling; commissioners favored focusing the work on financing and provider reimbursement scenarios and asked staff to review existing expenditure data before contracting.

The Universal Health Care Commission is gearing up to harness a $250,000 fund for groundbreaking actuarial modeling that could reshape financing and reimbursement in Washington's health system.

Get the details!

#WA #EconomicModeling #HealthFinancing #CitizenPortal #ProviderReimbursement

Apothek Grand Rounds: Financing Universal Health Coverage Public lecture at the University of Texas Medical Branch

Latest post live on Substack!

Sharing notes on health financing & universal health coverage from 2 recent lectures I delivered at the University of Texas Medical Branch & UT at San Antonio.

#GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #HealthFinancing
#UniversalHealthCoverage
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❔The first Observatory newsletter of 2026 comes out next week ... have you registered?

New #OBSWebinars, publications on #AI, #HealthFinancing, emergency care & more ... designed to support Europe's decision-makers with practical evidence & analysis

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The Politics of Progress Reading the WHO report on Universal Health Coverage as a political document

The author writes about “optimism washing” in this political analysis of the latest #WHO report on #UHC:
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#UHC #WHOreport #UniversalHealthCoverage #GlobalHealth #HealthPolicy #PoliticalAnalysis #HealthEquity #PrimaryHealthCare #HealthFinancing

Global health funding dropped over 20% in 2025, causing setbacks in maternal care, vaccinations, and HIV prevention. NGOs are shrinking and the WHO warns of long-term impacts on health goals. #StateOfHealthNews #GlobalHealth #HealthFinancing #AidCuts #PublicHealth #HealthSystems

The Observatory's Jon Cylus spoke at Thailand’s 3rd National #UHC Conference on how #PASH tests #HealthFinancing sustainability as populations age... & thats not all🧱This week, he also helped build a Thai PASH

Curious abou the PASH Simulator 2.0? Check it out here➡️ https://lnkd.in/dYs4QYEN

Webinar on Health Financing & Social Health Protection for Rare Diseases YouTube video by P4H Network

New report from P4H Network & @rarediseasesint.bsky.social on health financing and social health protection for rare diseases, building on a global webinar held 5 Nov.

Missed it? Watch the full recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mN-...

#RareDiseases #HealthFinancing #UHC #GlobalHealth

US City Sues Ultra-Processed Food Companies, Seeking 'Restitution' For Health Costs - Health Policy Watch The City of San Francisco has filed a historic lawsuit against 10 ultra-processed food (UPF) manufacturers, seeking “restitution and civil penalties" to help

San Francisco’s lawsuit against ultra-processed food companies signals a shift in how health systems may fund the rising costs of chronic disease. As links to NCDs grow, governments are looking to recover health costs from commercial drivers
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#HealthFinancing

🎉 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝟰𝗛 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰–𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁! Highlights include engagement in 40 countries, support to Chad’s AMED, reviews in Lao PDR, financing pilots in Madagascar, and major digital growth.
🔗 Full report: p4h.world

#P4HNetwork #UHC #GlobalHealth #HealthFinancing #SHP

📢 Happening tomorrow! Join us for the GLN Webinar: Demystifying Blended Financing!

Learn how innovative financing can protect investments in women’s, children’s & adolescents’ health.

🗓️ Wed, 10 Dec | 13:00–15:00 SAST
📍 Online
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#GlobalHealth #HealthFinancing

Aid Does Not Work. 💊

#healthfinancing #budgetcuts

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Partnership enhances Africa’s health accounts to advance UHC - P4H Network The P4H Network is the global network for social health protection and health financing

WHO Africa and STATAFRIC are strengthening collaboration to improve how countries measure health spending and financial protection for UHC.
Recent trainings in Accra and Dakar brought together 40+ countries to build skills in NHA and data analysis.

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#UHC #HealthFinancing

Africa outlines 10-year plan to boost access to essential medicines The proposed roadmap seeks to expand local manufacturing, pooled procurement, and coordinated regional supply chains.

African leaders and international partners have agreed on a 10-year regional plan to reshape how essential health products are financed, manufactured, and supplied across the continent.

#Africa #WHO #medicines #supplychain #manufacturing #healthfinancing #AfCFTA #regionalstrategy #Logistics

APEC advances collaborative agenda to close women’s health financing gaps - P4H Network The P4H Network is the global network for social health protection and health financing

𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗖 economies are advancing efforts to close the 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗮𝗽 after the Smart Families Workshop in Incheon.

Progress toward a new Innovative Financing Framework highlights stronger cross-sector collaboration.

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#WomensHealth #HealthFinancing

Episode-based Payments in Health – An innovative proposal for Health Plans at the CLAVS 25 congress - P4H Network The P4H Network is the global network for social health protection and health financing

New P4H blog: André Medici explores how episode-based payments can strengthen value-based care in Latin America, reducing costs and improving coordination.

Insights from CLAVS 2025 and IBRAVS’ framework.

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#HealthFinancing #ValueBasedCare

💻 Join us for the GLN Domestic Resource Mobilisation Webinar III: Demystifying Blended Financing!

Learn how innovative financing can protect investments in women’s, children’s & adolescents’ health.

🗓️ Wed, 10 Dec
📍 Online
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4oqmokp

#GlobalHealth #HealthFinancing

💻 Join us for the webinar Demystifying Blended Financing, where experts will provide insights into the role of blended financing in strengthening investments in women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health.

🗓️ Wed, 10 Dec | 13:00–15:00 SAST
📍 Online
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4oqmokp
#HealthFinancing

💻 Join us for the GLN Domestic Resource Mobilisation Webinar III: Demystifying Blended Financing!

Learn how innovative financing can protect investments in women’s, children’s & adolescents’ health.

🗓️ Wed, 10 Dec | 13:00–15:00 SAST
📍 Online
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4oqmokp

#HealthFinancing

🇵🇭 PhilHealth aims to cut Filipinos’ out-of-pocket health spending from 44.7% to 25–30% by 2028, requiring higher gov’t health spending and bigger investments in primary care.

Total health spending hit ₱1.4T in 2024, yet households still bear much of the cost.

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#UHC #HealthFinancing

What can a ministry of finance do to improve health spending? - P4H Network Explore our collection of documents related to our organization's goals of promoting collaboration in social health protection and health financing. Our vision is to accelerate progress towards univer...

New 𝗢𝗗𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 explores how ministries of finance can boost health spending efficiency as 𝗟𝗠𝗜𝗖𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 $𝟱𝟲 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮 and LICs under $10.

It outlines 10 ways to strengthen budgeting, execution, procurement, decentralisation & digital systems.

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#HealthFinancing #PFM

Africa CDC hails Nigeria's health reform model Africa CDC has emphasised that Nigeria will be among the few pilot countries for integrated health financing under the G20 partnership

🇳🇬Africa CDC spotlights Nigeria as a continental model for health reform.
At the 2025 Joint Annual Review, DG Jean Kaseya praised Nigeria’s leadership in integrated health financing, UHC, and local production.
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#P4HNetwork #HealthFinancing

Financing of Non-Communicable Diseases in Afghanistan How to fund NCD care in Afghanistan? Study finds high out-of-pocket costs & weak governance as barriers. #NCDs #HealthFinancing

How to fund NCD care in Afghanistan? Study finds high out-of-pocket costs & weak governance as barriers. #NCDs #HealthFinancing
www.rimpacts.com/rd/p?c=10073... 📄DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Closing the deal: Financing our security against pandemic threats​ - P4H Network Explore our collection of documents related to our organization's goals of promoting collaboration in social health protection and health financing. Our vision is to accelerate progress towards univer...

The G20 Panel’s new report shows the world is still underprepared for future pandemics, with major gaps in financing, MCM access, and support for tests, treatments & PPE. Stronger, scaled funding is essential to reduce future risks.

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#PPPR #HealthFinancing #G20

A Critical Assessment of Strategic Health Purchasing in Benin's Health Financing Schemes and the Implications for Universal Health Coverage Several reforms are underway in Benin to improve strategic health purchasing. This study examines th⁠e extent to which purchasing mechanisms in Benin …

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲?
Authors assess strategic health purchasing across Benin’s three major insurance schemes, call for a coherent financing strategy
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#UHC #HealthFinancing #Benin #StrategicPurchasing #P4HNetwork

#GHS2026 Call For Abstracts 🌍

Theme 6: GHS Financing, Partnerships & Collaborations
🤝 Public–Private Partnerships
🏘️ Local community engagement
🛡️ Security sector collaboration

🗓️ Deadline EXTENDED: 1 Dec 2025
👉 www.ghsconf.com/call-for-abstracts

#GlobalHealthSecurity #HealthFinancing

Government uncaps NHIS, injecting about GH₵3.4 billion to strengthen the scheme | Ghana News Agency By Bertha Badu-Agyei/Harriet Kwakye Accra, Oct. 30, GNA – Government has uncapped the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), injecting about Ghc3.4 billion funds this year to strengthen the…

🇬🇭 Ghana uncaps the National Health Insurance Levy, unlocking GH₵3.4B to strengthen the NHIS. With GH₵2.8B already disbursed, this reform boosts transparency, ends illegal co-payments & advances Universal Health Coverage

🔗 gna.org.gh/2025/11/gove...

#HealthFinancing #GhanaHealth #InvestInHealth

How Frontier Technologies Can Transform India’s Agricultural Landscape - As India aims for developed-nation status, its farms may once again lead the next industrial revolution—this time, born of code, sensors

How Frontier Technologies Can Transform India’s Agricultural Landscape wiobs.com/how-frontier... #FrontierTechnology #AgritechIndia #DigitalFarming #NITIAayog #ViksitBharat2047#WHO #GlobalHealth #HealthFinancing #DevelopmentAid #LMICs

🚨 New WHO Guidance on Global Health Financing Cuts

WHO’s new guidance — ““𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆” — outlines urgent steps to protect budgets, improve efficiency, and sustain health systems.
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#HealthFinancing #UHC #GlobalHealth #WHO #Resilience #HealthSystems

Financing, not technology, Is now the missing piece in ending tuberculosis - P4H Network The P4H Network is the global network for social health protection and health financing

𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 🇮🇩🇳🇬🇵🇭🇿🇦 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗕 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲: 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 — it’s a financing one.

With donor aid declining, countries must own their TB fight through domestic funding & innovative finance.

🔗 p4h.world/en/news/fina...

#TB #HealthFinancing #UHC #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth

💡 𝗣𝗠𝗡𝗖𝗛 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿: Innovative & Sustainable Financing of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights — part of the Advocacy Forward Workshop Series.

🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕓 14:00–16:00 CET | 💻 Zoom
🔗 who.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#SRHR #HealthFinancing #Advocacy #GlobalHealth @pmnch.bsky.social