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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. Incarcerated individuals need health care more than ever in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected those within correctional facilities. 3514) are particularly critical.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. Losing health insurance in the pandemic: a financial toxic side effect. Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, cracks in the U.S.

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic in America has combined with: A national economic recession and job losses. Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis.

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How Can Healthcare Bring Patients Back? A Preview of Our ATA Session, “Onward Together” in the COVID Era

Health Populi

I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. That theme was given to us in the fourth quarter of 2019, when initial planning for ATA 2020 had begun. This is one of the bright spots of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Medicare Star Ratings 2021 Changes and Strategies to Address

Innovaare Compliance

The CMS has increased the weight of patient experience measures, which are determined by CAHPS as well as member complaints, health care access, members choosing to leave the plan, appeals, and call center measures, all of which reflect overall member experience. The following section provides a synopsis of the changes for 2021.

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Americans Lost Future Life-Years in 2020: How Much Life Was Lost Depends on the Color of One’s Skin

Health Populi

life expectancy at birth fell by one full year over the first half of 2020 compared with 2019, to 77.8 In 2019, life expectancy at birth was 78.8 years, according to data shared by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). years in 2019.

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