Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Bupa Arabia , the Saudi-owned and publicly traded health insurance company, has just announced its backing of the Dubai-based online appointment booking platform, Okadoc. ” Enterprise Taxonomy: Finance Population and Public Health Workflow Business Care Process. ” THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

It’s a fairly even split between voting first on gun policy, jobs, or healthcare for the 2018 mid-term elections, ac. cording to the May 2018 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

2018 midterm elections. That is sound advice as we all head to the polls today, 6th November 2018…because every vote counts. Think unity, think community, think health. The post Vote As If Your Health Depended Upon It; Learning from Governor Kasich on Voting Day 2018 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Care Law Brief

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a strategy paper highlighting key aspects of its plan to revamp cybersecurity requirements in the healthcare industry. Citing a 93% increase in large data breaches in healthcare from 2018 to 2022 and a rapid increase in ransomware attacks against U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. But Castlight expects a flat-line in PMPM spending for 2022, leveling out at $4,232 per member/per month for commercially-insured employees.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Those costs are shown in the household expenditure table here, illustrating that by 2018, the median household expenditures in the U.S. Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. could barely be covered by median household income.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary , the first use of the phrase “health insurance” occurred in 1901. Consulting Noah Webster….and

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

Healthcare — availability and affordability — is a more intense worry for Americans in March 2018 than crime and violence, Federal spending, guns, drug use, and hunger and homelessness. were worried about the economy, and 23% about unemployment, in March 2018. adults 18 and over between 1st-8th March 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

First, check out the gainers on the list: after pharma, health insurance was the second biggest rep-winner in our COVID year, gaining 23 percentage points in the poll. That logic was bolstered by a finding in the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer finding more U.S. Why was this the case? The coronavirus re-shaped people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2020

lost their job as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of whom lost health insurance and others anxious their health coverage will be threatened, revealed in a survey from The Commonwealth Fund published on April 21, 2020. One in three working age people in the U.S. adults 18 to 64 years of age between 8-13 April 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

symptoms of depression were three-times greater in April 2020 in the COVID-19 pandemic than in 2017-2018. A lesson from the pandemic for us to take away: in re-imagining and -building a better health system for U.S. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

Patients are facing health care costs that may result in multi-thousand dollar bills at discharge (or death) that will decimate households’ financial health, particularly among people who don’t have health insurance coverage, covered by skinny or under-benefited plans, and/or lack banked savings for medical spending.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Women were surveyed on perspectives for health care in America in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the prospects for the Affordable Care Act and health insurance security, and views on health, well-being, and health care. Women identified the top five personal health issues they face as: Mental health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

. — in particular, impacts on mental health, access to care, and health equity and d isparities the latter of which have been a research focus from the initiation of this research. I participated with the Aetna Foundation and team on examining the health equity aspects of this study in 2018, linked here.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The regulations may provide an opportunity for health insurers to attract new members – and retain existing ones – with hearing loss. MarkeTrak 10:Hearing Aids in an Era of Disruption and DTC/OTC Devices, [link] Goman, Adele M, Am J Public Health 2016 Oct;106(10):1820-2. Expanding membership. million U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

But while there’s majority support for universal health care, we should think broadly about this concept at this moment. Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

I covered the launch of the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer across all industries here in Health Populi in January 2018 , when this year’s annual report was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos as it is each year. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The New York Wage Parity Act, Public Health Law sets minimum wage and benefit requirements for licensed home care services agencies (LHCSAs) that employ home care aides who render services to Medicaid recipients in New York City and three counties in New York. The base wage must be paid in cash. million to the Unites States and $2.4

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Health insurers in the state are now allowed to offer plans with limited benefits, escaping the rules for plans in the Affordable Care Act that provided for a list of covered benefits. As I reflect on this tale of two States as I’m composing, for another publication, a treatise on what the U.S. healthcare.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

The mainstreaming of SDoH speaks to the awareness that health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn and shop… beyond the health”care” system of hospitals, doctors’ offices, and prescription drug dispensaries. adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

CVS has been tracking the growing trend of health care consumerism in the U.S. since first launching this consumer market research in 2018 in the Health Ambitions Study conducted in concert with Aetna — the pharmacy chain’s newly-acquired health insurance company. Stress levels among U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Disparities in Americans’ health vary among people living in each of the 50 states. These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance. Ultimately, the Fund asserts, where you live matters.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: An update to the census-tract level broadband estimates will be published in December 2018, and this will give us updated pictures into neighborhood-specific connectivity. Broadband and its fair access rules for all health consumers through net neutrality are a bundled social determinant of health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2022

But the new benefit for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid health insurance program, has been delayed twice as the state and doulas — nonmedical workers who help parents before, during, and after birth — haggle over how much they should get paid.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Together, they transcend health politics and converge on a single health policy: that is, to “ensure that every single American has access to quality, affordable health care regardless of health status, social need, or income.” Shall we just say: “it’s about the health care, stupid?”

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The provisions also prohibit entities that receive federal funds from denying admission or discriminating against any applicant for training or study based on their reluctance or willingness to counsel, recommend, perform, or assist in certain health services or research activities because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

trillion to national healthcare spending in 2018. This week, Kaiser Family Foundation published its 2018 study into employer-sponsored benefits, finding that the average cost is about $20,000 this year. trillion in 2018. The economic argument for the MedModular innovation in the U.S. is compelling. trillion a year.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

National health spending in the U.S. every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs.

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