Health Populi

JULY 20, 2021

Furthermore, the flow of medical debt was greater among health citizens living in states that did not expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act, compared with patients who reside in Medicaid expansion states, according to an original research essay, Medical Debt in the US, 2009-2020 published in JAMA on 20 July 2021.

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 12, 2024

HITECH Act (2009): The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act incentivized the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and increased penalties for data breaches. Compliance efforts shifted toward protecting patient information. Compliance efforts expanded to encompass EHR security.

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Compliance HIPAA Telemedicine ACA 52

Bill of Health

JANUARY 8, 2024

The NCAA describes the compensation lawsuits as beginning in 2009 , yet exploring this topic reveals the debate is not so novel. Even without unions, if student athletes are employees, NCAA schools may face ACA employer insurance requirements. The NIL terminology is newer, but limiting this to an NIL problem is overly narrow.

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ACA Health Insurance Public Health Governance 111

MedTrainer

MARCH 28, 2024

Here are key dates in compliance history: 1965 – Medicare and Medicaid 1996 – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 2009 – Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act 2010 – Affordable Care Act (ACA) 2015 – Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) 2023 – OIG Issues update – (..)

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

That link will take you to my blog written on primary care ROI in November 2009 – and the math holds ten+ years later. And, that primary care is a social determinant of health, bolstering public and individual health. But America’s per capita primary care physician supply fell between 2005 and 2015.

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Patient Advocacy Health Insurance HIPAA Doctors 143

MedTrainer

JANUARY 26, 2024

HIPAA was enacted in 1996 and has been amended over the years, with the most recent update being the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ( HITECH ) Act in 2009. HIPAA is primarily concerned with protecting the privacy and security of patients’ protected health information (PHI).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

has declined, year over year, since the height of the Great Recession in 2009. Looking back to 2015, health insurance offer rates increased across all firm sizes except for the largest firms with 1,000 or more employees, which stayed relatively flat over the two years at 99.4% Unemployment in the U.S. by the end of 2017.

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