Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The Undefeated was started in May 2016, and has been a thought leader on topics of race and sports in America.

COVID-19 86

COVID-19 Public Health Governance Health Insurance 86

Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 19, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In an essay I wrote for The Huffington Post back in July 2016, I asserted that broadband connectivity was a social determinant of health.

Medicaid 75

Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Health Outcomes 75

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Italy scores above-the-OECD-average for life expectancy, fewer deaths from heart disease, healthy weight (measured by obesity rate), and universal health insurance coverage via a national health service. In 2016, the U.S. Would that we in America could embrace such a public health message for all.

Health Insurance 117

Health Insurance Doctors Public Health Hospitals 117

Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

Otherwise, the news is negative across the remaining four segments: consumer health is the second most-trusted segment, by 56% of Americans, but dropped by 7 percentage points from 2017. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points. But you may be asking, “What happened in Colombia?

Health Insurance 74

Health Insurance Fraud Hospitals Nurses 74

HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

For example, healthcare providers can promote healthy lifestyles, raise awareness of emerging health issues, and make announcements when special clinics or services are available to the public. However, it is important to understand what is considered PHI under HIPAA.

HIPAA 108

HIPAA Compliance Health Insurance Public Health 108

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years.

Health Insurance 173

Health Insurance COVID-19 Telemedicine Public Health 173

MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These agencies help maintain the integrity and quality of healthcare services in Tennessee , protecting the public and promoting patient safety. Significant changes were made to the program as of July 1, 2016.

Compliance 52

Compliance Licensing HIPAA Medicaid 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

hospital sector is facing major challenges on all fronts: staffing (especially nursing and more broadly, clinician burnout), supply chain, financial stressors, demographics, and cross-industry politics vis-à-vis pharma and health insurance. Can the provider partner with tech firms on data and research projects to improve care?

Hospitals 71

Hospitals Health Insurance Nurses Doctors 71

HIPAA Journal

MAY 29, 2023

It has been 27 years since President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law, but compliance is still proving a challenge for many HIPAA-regulated entities. The 2016-2017 HIPAA audit program identified many areas of noncompliance.

HIPAA 102

HIPAA Compliance Due Diligence COVID-19 102

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

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.

COVID-19 139

COVID-19 Health Care Inequity COVID-19 Vaccine Medicare 139

Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The CDC published new data on the prevalence of obesity in America earlier this month, identifying a markedly greater obesity prevalence among adults in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan counties in 2016: 34.2% in nonmetros vs. 28.7% in metro areas. Overall obesity prevalence in the U.S.

Health Outcomes 70

Health Outcomes Health Insurance Public Health 70

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Note the last line of that matrix, population with health care coverage: the U.S. 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]. ranks lowest on that, at 90%. [It’s

Doctors 85

Doctors Hospitals Public Health ACA 85

HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Public HIT companies were not spared in the market downturn that began in January 2022, losing an astonishing 34% over the last 6 months, with an overwhelming 56 out of 68 tracked companies ending the first half of the year with negative returns. Q2 HEADLINES. 3M is said to consider sale of its healthcare IT division. April 26: 3M Co.

US Department of Health and Human Services 98

US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Health Insurance Telemedicine 98

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

Due Diligence 98

Due Diligence Compliance HIPAA Nurses 98

Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

That December, California awarded a competitive $302 million contract to Magellan Medicaid Administration, a subsidiary of Magellan Health, to make sure Medi-Cal enrollees get the medications that California would buy in bulk. Magellan provides pharmacy services to public health plans in 28 states and the District of Columbia.

Medicaid 109

Medicaid Medicaid Health Insurance COVID-19 109

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

US Department of Health and Human Services 130

US Department of Health and Human Services Prescription Drug Pricing Public Health Medicare 130

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

I’ve talked about the importance of connectivity as a social determinant of health here on this site in December 2017, as well as in July 2016 in the Huffington P ost (appropriately published in the “Life/Wellness” section). Without them, the U.S.

Health Insurance 93

Health Insurance Public Health Health Care Access Medicare 93

Hall Render

AUGUST 26, 2024

renovation Maryland nursing home under historic oversight after state investigation This MD Hospital Listed Among Americas Greatest In New List Black-owned Laurel radiology practice sues UM Medical System alleging unfair bidding practices MASSACHUSETTS A closer look at the health systems trying to buy Steward’s Mass. hospitals Gov.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals 40

Hall Render

AUGUST 23, 2024

renovation Maryland nursing home under historic oversight after state investigation This MD Hospital Listed Among Americas Greatest In New List Black-owned Laurel radiology practice sues UM Medical System alleging unfair bidding practices MASSACHUSETTS A closer look at the health systems trying to buy Steward’s Mass. hospitals Gov.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals 40

Kaiser Health News

JUNE 13, 2024

. “There were a number of practices used by insurance companies to essentially protect themselves from the costs associated with people who have preexisting conditions,” said Sabrina Corlette , a co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University and an expert on the health insurance marketplace.

ACA 118

ACA Health Insurance Medicaid Medicaid 118

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Dunleavy proposes extending Medicaid coverage for new mothers ARIZONA Banner Health pays $1.25M penalty over HIPAA failures from 2016 breach Arizona nursing school at risk of losing accreditation St. million to UMass Memorial Health Care for COVID-19 costs Four Mass. billion since pandemic U.S. What to know.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Nursing Homes Nurses 40

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

First, check out the gainers on the list: after pharma, health insurance was the second biggest rep-winner in our COVID year, gaining 23 percentage points in the poll. Most health citizens, hoping for a way out of the public health crisis, are counting on science to liberate both lives and livelihoods.

COVID-19 154

COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Pharmaceutical Industry Public Health 154

Hall Render

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

institute focused on health equity Medical providers at D.C.’s institute focused on health equity Medical providers at D.C.’s In Boulder, you recycle it. The whole thing. Then Prospect Medical took over.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals 40

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

Health Insurance 54

Health Insurance Public Health Medical Billing Medicaid 54

Health Populi

JULY 11, 2018

In 2016, 21.4 on several dimensions: diet and health outcomes, farming as an industry and economic engine, and social determinants, along with seven other categories. In so doing, regions would enhance public health, stronger local economies, and more resilient ecosystems. employment.

Health Outcomes 85

Health Outcomes Public Health Health Care Access Health Insurance 85

Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research. ” Hospitals have long argued they need to charge private insurance plans higher rates to make up for the Medicaid shortfall.

Hospitals 74

Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medical Billing 74

Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s important to note that equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were worried about healthcare between 2014 and 2016 as the Affordable Care Act was being implemented. I covered EBRI’s poll here in Health Populi earlier this year, explaining that, “Workers dissatisfaction with U.S. Gallup interviewed 1,041 U.S.

ACA 69

ACA Health Insurance Public Health Health Outcomes 69