HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What You Should Know: – Amwell forms a strategic partnership with Discovery Health, a health insurance administrator, which will introduce the first-ever digital therapeutic benefits funded by a health insurer in South Africa.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Currently, less than 2% of the health insurance population requiring specialty drugs is responsible for 51% of drug spending. With Lyfegen’s patent-pending platform, health insurances & hospitals can implement and scale value-based healthcare, improving access to treatments, patient health outcomes and affordability. “We

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

Fast-forward through the 1990s and the advent of PBMs — pharmacy benefit management companies — the intermediaries managing drug benefits for health insurance plans. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

consumers rank supermarkets, fast food chains, retailers, and banks as their top performing industries for experience according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings. Peoples’ experience with health plans rank at the bottom of the roster, on par with rental cars and TV/Internet service providers.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

With lower expectations of and satisfaction with health care, Millennials in America seek three things: available, accessible, and affordable services, research from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies has found. This generation has greater engagement with employers that offer health benefits.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. One-half said they weren’t confident in their ability to afford health insurance in or near retirement.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. But Castlight expects a flat-line in PMPM spending for 2022, leveling out at $4,232 per member/per month for commercially-insured employees.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

What You Should Know: – Cigna and Humana are in talks to merge in a deal that would create a US health insurance giant worth $140B and provide a significant test for antitrust authorities.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The DiGA initiative is part of the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) that sets the legal framework for doctors to prescribe DiGAs to the 73 million citizens insured with a statutory health insurer that reimburses their use, and has been recognised as a pioneering approach globally. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

What You Should Know: Since 2018, we have been working with employer and payer partners to put Health Payment Accounts (HPAs) into the hands of Americans to help them more equitably access and afford healthcare. 92% expressed higher satisfaction with health benefits. 66% noted improved health for themselves and their families.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary , the first use of the phrase “health insurance” occurred in 1901. Consulting Noah Webster….and

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010. Fri, 11/16/2018 - 18:46. 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010 Significant progress in saving $4.59B in estimated improper payments for the Medicare Fee-For-Service program. percent in 2018. percent in 2018.

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CMS.gov

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Census Bureau released their annual report on health insurance coverage in the United States which shows the number of uninsured Americans rose from 2017 to 2018.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. Instead, attending to health and wellbeing, staying true to an exercise regime, maintaining good nutrition, and managing stress top U.S. health-insured adults in July 2018.

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Compliancy Group

MAY 16, 2023

Due to a July 2018 hacking incident, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigated MedEvolve to determine if the business associate was HIPAA compliant. In July 2018, MedEvolve submitted a breach report to OCR indicating that they experienced a network server hack that affected 230,572 patients. The result?

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 10, 2023

For the research study, the data was published on the tool on February 25, 2018, and for the quality improvement project, on January 14, 2023. The research study data was accessible between February 25, 2018 – June 13, 2023, and the quality improvement project data was exposed between January 14, 2023 – June 13, 2023.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 16, 2023

In July 2018, MedEvolve informed OCR that an error had been made configuring an FTP server. The exposed information included names, billing addresses, telephone numbers, health insurer information, doctor’s office account numbers, and, for some individuals, Social Security numbers. 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Those costs are shown in the household expenditure table here, illustrating that by 2018, the median household expenditures in the U.S. Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. could barely be covered by median household income.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 19, 2023

.” During that period, the FTC alleged the Premom app transmitted the sensitive health information of app users to third-party advertisers without user consent.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

In an era where the HHS itself notes a 93% increase in large healthcare data breaches from 2018 to 2022, as well as a 278% increase in those that involve ransomware, suggesting “voluntary cybersecurity goals” is akin to applying a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

. — in particular, impacts on mental health, access to care, and health equity and d isparities the latter of which have been a research focus from the initiation of this research. I participated with the Aetna Foundation and team on examining the health equity aspects of this study in 2018, linked here.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Feedback is requested on how this can be achieved, how data practices should be communicated to consumers, whether consumers should have the right to request non-HIPAA-covered data be deleted, and if there should be an opt-in or opt-out method of data collection for health data not covered by HIPAA.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

voters will be motivated to express their political will for health as so many voters did in the 2018 mid-term elections when folks felt the very real threat of losing health insurance coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act. By sunset on 3rd November 2020, millions of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One-third of Americans would opt into using a personal monitoring system 24/7 by an insurance company or health care provider in exchange for lower-cost insurance. 1 in 4 people would work with an artificial intelligence (AI) technology for lower health care costs.

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Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

It’s no shock, then, to find that 59% of employees said they consistently carried balances on their credit cards in 2019, a huge jump from 49% who did so in 2018. Sixty percent of workers with health insurance were covered by a health plan with a deductible (a HDHP). in December 2018 to 6.2% Louis Federal Reserve.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Three in four large firms covers telemedicine in 2018, KFF found. in the same period.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The largest patient experience workflows included shopping for health insurance, preparing to see a healthcare provider, connecting with that provider, managing a diagnosis, shopping for services, receiving treatment, and finally, paying for the services. At this moment in U.S.

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MedTrainer

MARCH 8, 2024

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) stands as a pillar of modern healthcare, offering a framework for safeguarding sensitive patient data. headquartered in Indianapolis, paid the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) $16M in 2018 “after a series of cyberattacks led to the largest U.S. Anthem Inc.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

More grocery stores added dietitians to their operations in 2018, as well. As people take on more self-care for health care, they are looking to access products and services in retail bricks-and-mortar and ecommerce channels in the same places they buy food and other products. ACSI’s research found U.S. percentage points.

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2022

Indeed, it does appear that Amazon is methodically stitching together a series of assets that over the next few years will better reveal the scope of its health care strategy. With significant fanfare, the January 2018 the formation of the health care consortium Haven with Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Amazon Health Insurance?

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

This is consistent with other studies’ findings that providers — first and foremost, one’s physician — is most consumers’ most-trusted health data steward in the healthcare ecosystem. Sidebar for context: Note that confidence erosion in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The loss of clinical autonomy, through strict utilization review, protocols, and heavy-handed health insurance interventions also contribute to doctors’ ill feelings and compromised productivity. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. The post Most U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2019

adults in September 2019 on issues concerning health care costs, shopping, value, saving and spending. points in 2018 to 57.9 While two-thirds of consumers say they understand their insurance coverage, only one-half of them can correctly answer questions about the definition of premiums and deductibles. households.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The lawsuits allege violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, Unfair Competition Law, the FTC Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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