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What is HIPAA?

HIPAA Journal

HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed by Congress in 1996, the establishment of federal standards for safeguarding PHI was not one of the primary objectives. What is HIPAA? What is HIPAA Title II?

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The New Financial Toxicity in Health Care: The Cost of Hospitalization

Health Populi

The data points come from one-half million people who were hospitalized in California between 2002 and 2011 and tracked in credit reports which included information on whether and when the patients filed for bankruptcy. health citizens of the economic hardship of high-cost health problems.

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. The table (Appendix: The Cost-of-Thriving Data) organizes the growing costs by household line item including housing, health insurance, transportation and college.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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AngelEye Health Announces Series B Funding to Support Company’s Rapid Growth

Healthcare IT Today

Mountain Group Partners is an investor dedicated to investing in and actively guiding transformational businesses in the Technology, Animal Health, and Life Sciences sectors. Founded in 2002, MGP has invested in more than 50 companies in these sectors. MGP invests in seed- and early-stage companies.