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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

consumer in the COVID-19 moment…a moment that may last most of the rest of the months of 2020. 43% of Americans are concerned they will contract COVID-19. Compounding Americans personal finances is the COVID-19 era is the fact that the nation lacks universal health insurance coverage. 20-21 and Feb.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The President signed the $8.3

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

Agreement of treatment effects from observational studies and randomized controlled trials evaluating hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir, or dexamethasone for covid-19: meta-epidemiological study. The global impact of COVID-19 on drug purchases: A cross-sectional time series analysis. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003).

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Physicians Beware! Groups Providing DME, Prosthetic Devices, and Other Medical Supplies to Their Medicare Patients Risk Violating the Strict Liability Stark Law Since the Expiration of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Health Law Advisor

During the COVID-19 PHE, CMS issued temporary waivers, including a waiver of the “location requirement” of the In-Office Ancillary Services (“IOAS”) exception. 3] As indicated above, the temporary waiver that allowed mailing or home delivery of DME during the COVID-19 PHE expired May 11, 2023 and is no longer available.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Nearly 7 million Americans lost health coverage due to COVID-19, a national survey from Civis Analytics found, in The State of Health Insurance in COVID-19 America. Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, cracks in the U.S. knew someone who died from COVID-19. Civis Analytics polled 13,000 U.S.

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Amazon taps former head of Prime to lead health efforts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before that, he served as chief marketing officer of Sprint prepaid brands from 2003 through 2010. It also made its at-home COVID-19 tests widely available and signaled a potential move into other diagnostics, including sexually transmitted infection testing kits.

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The HIPAA Definition of Covered Entities Explained

HIPAA Journal

Since 2003, the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has received more than 300,000 complaints and rejected more than 200,000. COVID-19 travel insurance). Prescription drug card sponsors were added to the HIPAA definition of Covered Entities by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.

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