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“It’s the Deductible, Stupid” – Health Premiums Reach $20,576 in 2019 for a Family

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They rose 26%, and general price inflation by 20%, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey on employer-sponsored benefits for 2019 released yesterday. In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S.

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Health Care Costs Concern Americans Approaching Retirement – Especially Women and Sicker People

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The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019. One-half said they weren’t confident in their ability to afford health insurance in or near retirement.

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Senator Tina Smith: 'We have to learn from our experiences' on telehealth

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" As noted by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension earlier this week , there have been 31 federal policy changes enacted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to expand access to telehealth. " Because of that, Smith said, any work to expand telehealth must consider access for everyone.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. How to optimize RPM for physicians.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine." "In addition, in 2012, UVA Health launched a remote patient monitoring program to improve patient compliance and clinical outcomes, and to reduce hospital readmissions, hospital length of stay and emergency department visits.

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Indiana Senate committee advances bill that would ban gender transitioning procedures for anyone under 18 Expert: Indiana’s proposed budget needs more on public health Twins born at Riley Hospital marks first Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome procedure in Indiana Health practices join forces Indianapolis, Indiana doctor first in state to use (..)

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A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response

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Most crucially, the federal policy response created conditions in which states could implement universal SARS-CoV-2 mitigation measures (e.g., years below 2019 levels, largely due to COVID-19 deaths. If we have in fact passed through the portal to another world, it is certainly not better than the one we inhabited in 2019.

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