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A Profile of People in Medicare Advantage Plans – HealthMine’s Survey of “Digital Immigrants”

Health Populi

There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019.

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Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

Health Populi

That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As Digital immigrants, first coined by Marc Prensky in 2001. Power survey on the subject attested].

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: TPG to Take Convey Private for $1.1 Billion

McGuire Wood

Founded in 2001, the company solutions, designed for government-sponsored health plans, are designed to support member interactions, compliance and Medicare processes. Convey , based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is a specialized healthcare technology and services company.

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CMS Proposes Minimum Staffing Requirements and Enhanced Facility Assessments for Nursing Homes

C&M Health Law

Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a much anticipated and contested proposed rule that seeks to establish minimum staffing level requirements for nursing homes. The 2001 recommendation of 4.1 On September 1, 2023, the U.S. HPRD consisted of 0.75 5] Id.

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Ohio Hospital Pays $4.4 Million to Settle Accusations of Performing Unnecessary Procedures

The Health Law Firm

The settlement agreement covers accusations that the doctors and the hospital billed Medicare for unnecessary cardiac procedures from 2001 to 2006. Click here to read the press release from the DOJ. The Ohio hospital agreed to pay the US government $3.9

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CMS Proposes Changes to Graduate Medical Education in 2023 IPPS Proposed Rule

Hall Render

CMS also published the annual Nursing and Allied-Health Medicare Advantage add-on payment and reduction to direct GME Medicaid Advantage payments. As a result, CMS is implementing a policy that corrects this error, which will be retroactive back to 2001.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

” That was written in the 2001-2010 period of healthcare spending, so an old story giving me feelings of déjà vu. Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. economy by 2026. Now, to Figure 4 (the third graphic).