HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The regulations may provide an opportunity for health insurers to attract new members – and retain existing ones – with hearing loss. MarkeTrak 10:Hearing Aids in an Era of Disruption and DTC/OTC Devices, [link] Goman, Adele M, Am J Public Health 2016 Oct;106(10):1820-2. Expanding membership. million U.S.

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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

APRIL 24, 2018

I covered the launch of the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer across all industries here in Health Populi in January 2018 , when this year’s annual report was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos as it is each year. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The New York Wage Parity Act, Public Health Law sets minimum wage and benefit requirements for licensed home care services agencies (LHCSAs) that employ home care aides who render services to Medicaid recipients in New York City and three counties in New York. The base wage must be paid in cash. million to the Unites States and $2.4

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

The mainstreaming of SDoH speaks to the awareness that health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn and shop… beyond the health”care” system of hospitals, doctors’ offices, and prescription drug dispensaries. adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Disparities in Americans’ health vary among people living in each of the 50 states. These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance. Ultimately, the Fund asserts, where you live matters.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2022

But the new benefit for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid health insurance program, has been delayed twice as the state and doulas — nonmedical workers who help parents before, during, and after birth — haggle over how much they should get paid.

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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.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The provisions also prohibit entities that receive federal funds from denying admission or discriminating against any applicant for training or study based on their reluctance or willingness to counsel, recommend, perform, or assist in certain health services or research activities because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

For my previous write-ups of the MMI, here are some links to check out… MMI 2021 The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021. MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166. MMI 2017 Health Care Costs for Family of Four Will Reach $27,000 in 2017.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The virtual trial, to be sure, is not a new concept: One team of researchers counted more than 1,100 trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov employing connected digital products for remote data collection in both 2017 and 2018, the organization observed. " “Some private insurers stepped in to help, too,” they added.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers.

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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. reduction in total penalties compared to 2018, falling from $28.7 million in 2018 to just $1.6 million in 2022.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices. Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

The original request for records was submitted in writing by a former ACPM patient on November 13, 2018. The patient stated that he needed the requested medical records to appeal an unfavorable decision made by his health insurance company for the payment of a bill related to treatment provided by ACPM. Federal code 45 C.F.R.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Consumers point to some organizations that they perceive may be working against their better health: these include fast food manufacturers, the entertainment industry, food processors (“Big Food”), the media, government agencies, and health insurance companies. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season. Now consider a vision/optical insurance plan entering the retailing side of the business.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

People with diabetes have, by definition, a pre-existing condition when they seek health insurance. The impact of eliminating this facet of the law would take a huge toll on the diabetes community’s financial health and access to services.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2018

the chronic disease burden takes a massive toll on both public health and mortality, accounting for 7 in 10 deaths in America each year. That personal health toll comes at a high price and proportion of national health expenditures. Chronic diseases are what kill most people in the world. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2018

parents are sobering up to the risks of social mobility in America for their children: in 2018, 51% of U.S. This is unique compared with people living in other OECD countries, only 37% of whom agree with the education statement. In the U.S., social mobility is not evenly distributed across the generations.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register from October-December 2021: On October 4, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. 10:37 (Community Mental Health Services Act) with technical amendments.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Acquisition of BCBSLA Paused a Second Time It was the biggest health care deal in Louisiana history. biotech pins hopes on 3 drug approvals as battles with FDA continue Luxury senior living facility coming to D.C. New CEO at Children’s National lays out her vision D.C.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Despite gloomy headlines and the seemingly harrowing declines in valuation, it’s important to not lose sight of the steady climb in valuations since the beginning of 2018. Compared to the period between Jan 2018 – March 2020, deal volume and value in the US are up by 8% and 45% respectively.

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Health Care Law Brief

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a strategy paper highlighting key aspects of its plan to revamp cybersecurity requirements in the healthcare industry. Citing a 93% increase in large data breaches in healthcare from 2018 to 2022 and a rapid increase in ransomware attacks against U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

CVS has been tracking the growing trend of health care consumerism in the U.S. since first launching this consumer market research in 2018 in the Health Ambitions Study conducted in concert with Aetna — the pharmacy chain’s newly-acquired health insurance company. Stress levels among U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Entering the third year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS seeks to clarify the period of time during which MAOs must comply with the special requirements at 42 CFR 422.100(m) to ensure access for enrollees to covered services throughout the disaster or emergency period.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

Patients are facing health care costs that may result in multi-thousand dollar bills at discharge (or death) that will decimate households’ financial health, particularly among people who don’t have health insurance coverage, covered by skinny or under-benefited plans, and/or lack banked savings for medical spending.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

trillion to national healthcare spending in 2018. This week, Kaiser Family Foundation published its 2018 study into employer-sponsored benefits, finding that the average cost is about $20,000 this year. trillion in 2018. The economic argument for the MedModular innovation in the U.S. is compelling. trillion a year.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES.

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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).

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Oddly, even with its place in the general public’s lexicon, telemedicine utilization is still rather low. According to Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of US Physicians , only 23% of patients have had video visits and just 14% of physicians have video visit capability. Original Source.

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Hall Render

JUNE 9, 2023

ConnectiCare names new president; interim leader Wachtelhausen to retire CT passes bill focused on expanding kids’ mental health services DC Why D.C.’s

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health.

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