Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In Declining Use of Primary Care Among Commercially Insured Adults in the United States, 2008-2016 , the researchers analyzed data from a national sample of adult health plan members between 18 and 64 years of age and saw that visits to PCPS fell by 24.2%, from 169.5 visits per 100 member-years.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

In the 2016 Final Rule , CMS agreed “the 60-day time period begins when either the reasonable diligence is completed or on the day the person received credible information of a potential overpayment if the person failed to conduct reasonable diligence and the person in fact received an overpayment. § 401.305(a)(2).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2024

The following is a guest article by Monte Jennings , President, CEO and Enterprise Architect at Sentia Health In 2016 I read an article by Shane Snow titled “ Trickle-Down Health Care: How we could actually fix the US Health System.” His basic assertion is that nobody is minding the store. is ‘the will of this society.’

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

in 2017, about the same proportion as in 2016 — but nearly 20 million fewer than in 2010, as the line chart illustrates. The report details Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-September 2017. About 28 million people were uninsured in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

It’s important to realize that this statistic is based on data from 2016 at a historic high, when the Affordable Care Act was in full implementation]. Note the last line of that matrix, population with health care coverage: the U.S. ranks lowest on that, at 90%. [It’s

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

At the same time, Colombia resolved a 50-year civil war-type conflict, La Violencia, in 2016, leaving the nation scarred physically and mentally to deal with post-traumatic stress and a public health crisis for mental health. EpiPen pricing and Martin Shkreli in the media in 2016 and 2017 have added fuel to that fire.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

3] California Department of Insurance, Health Insurance Benefits ; Approaches in Implementing the MHPAEA: Best Practices from the States , Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2016). [4] November 2022. [2] 2] See, e.g., The Behavioral Health Care Affordability Problem , Center for American Progress (May 26, 2022). [3]

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

” The first chart illustrates the top sources of stress gauged in each of the past four years of this survey since 2016. Healthcare Consumer Survey from TransAmerica ‘s Center for Health Studies underscores that Americans are “settling in” during a phase of “healthcare uncertainty.”

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Identifying Previous and Concurrent Payors and Opt In. CMS proposes that impacted payers maintain a process to identify a new patient’s previous and/or concurrent payer(s) to facilitate data exchange using the Payer-to-Payer API.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you felt stressed during the 2016 Presidential election season, you were also one in a million. The latest, published 7 October, finds that the 2020 Presidential election is a source of significant stress for more Americans than the 2016 race. Two in three U.S. The post Two in Three Americans Cite the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

Still, the data comes as former Vice President Joe Biden — who has spurned a single-payer system in favor of expanding the ACA with a public option — continues holding tight to his 13-point advantage over Sen. Here’s another Medicare myth uncovered: 1 in 4 Americans think Medicare is part of the ACA/Obamacare.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 16, 2022

La deuda de los pacientes se acumula a pesar de la histórica Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) de 2010. ACA amplió la cobertura de seguro a decenas de millones de estadounidenses. Esto hace que la enfermedad sea un factor de predicción de deuda médica más poderoso que la pobreza o el seguro.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. Between 2013 and 2016, about 530,000 bankruptcies were filed among U.S. between 2013 and 2016. bankruptcy filers between 2013 and 2016. Medical costs in America are still the top contributor to personal bankruptcy in the U.S.,

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Hall Render

JULY 8, 2024

Although Section 1557 took effect immediately upon the signing of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), a final rule was not promulgated until 2016 (the “2016 Rule”). The 2020 Rule also eliminated several other requirements that had been included in the 2016 Rule and narrowed the scope of Section 1557 coverage.

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Verisys

MARCH 24, 2022

Healthcare facilities receive billions of dollars in federal and state funding through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and other programs. In 2016, Alcon Laboratories was slapped with a $7.6 When it comes to healthcare, knowing who you’re doing business with matters.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

One-fourth of insured Americans, about 41 million people, were defined as under-insured in late 2016, double the 2003 rate when The Fund began to poll on this question. The Commonwealth Fund’s Issue Brief published October 2017 asks, “How Well Does Insurance Coverage Protect Consumers from Health Care Costs?”

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

Scott Walker of Wisconsin, uber-Red Governor of the Dairy State, is working to bolster the ACA health insurance marketplaces for the state’s health citizens. For a couple of years, most Americans have polled that they want to be some flavor of health citizen, with a universal right to some level of health care as a right for all.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

Other issues, like a new Medicare-for-All plan, repealing/replacing the ACA, and protecting people from surprise medical bills were less important to people. percent in 2016 at the moment when President Trump promised to “repeal and replace” the ACA. from a low of 10.9 Of course, this has not happened.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

of those companies offered health insurance in 2016, 23.5% of those companies offered health insurance in 2016, 23.5% Offer rates among other size firms stayed relatively flat or slightly declined between 2016 and 2017. After eight years of decline, more U.S. In 2017, 46.9% percentage points from a low of 45.3% did so in 2017.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

percent from 2011-2016, from $17.6 Ask yourself why proponents of ‘Medicare for All’ are advocating such a radical reform of health care just five years after the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare. It is certainly not because the ACA has worked. billion to $28.0

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

He noted that President Trump, “tweeted a simple call-out to the intraday record: ‘Dow just hit 27,000 for first time EVER!'

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Kaiser Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

million in 2016, the final year of President Barack Obama’s administration. Some of the largest increases are in Florida, Texas, Georgia and nine other states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The previous marketplace enrollment record was 12.7

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Hall Render

MARCH 29, 2024

Here’s how S.C.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

s largest community health center move to unionize DELAWARE Delaware gets top rating for hospital maternity care Delaware system hits funding goal, raises objective ACA enrollment begins, most plan options offered in Delaware marketplace history Nemours Children’s Health Names Delaware Valley Regional President FLORIDA Ascension St.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 11, 2022

When HHS first issued a final rule interpreting Section 1557 in 2016 , it affirmed that a private right of action and damages were available for violations to the same extent that those remedies were available under the four civil rights laws.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Section 1557, known as the “Health Care Rights Law,” is the main nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). When Section 1557 came into effect in 2016 under President Obama, it was a testament to the power of health equity as it was designed to support existing legislation like Title VI – the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 13, 2024

To understand it, we need to break down the protections put in place by the ACA, and those that exist separately. Some basic preexisting condition protections exist independent of the ACA. Biden’s May ad focuses on how many people would be vulnerable if protections for people with preexisting conditions were lost.

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