Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). Another lens on “who’s trusted” in terms of information sources finds once again that journalists and governments are not go-to touch points for “facts.” ” Who is trusted?

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2021

The Reimagined over-index when it comes to demanding companies prioritize health considerations for consumers and employees across their operations. Furthermore, 7 in 10 of the Reimagined folks think companies are just as responsible as governments for the health of societies.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

Ensuring the Financial Integrity of HHS Programs In fiscal year (FY) 2022, improper payments within healthcare programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) were estimated at a staggering $131.6 Bad actors within these organizations claim additional government payments using a number of schemes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older. Higher-income, 16%.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

And that will enhance patient/consumer health experience and loyalty. AI underpins all retail experience now – which is something we’re hearing in healthcare whether at HIMSS, CES, SXSW, ePharma, and other conferences since the start of 2019. How can I banish bags from my eyes? What causes eye pain?

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Behavioral telehealth may also be referred to as telebehavioral health, telemental health, telepsychiatry, or telepsychology. Higher rates of use of telehealth are now standard in many practices since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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AIHC

JUNE 14, 2023

The question remains, how will the use of AI be regulated for health care use? The Federal Drug Administration & AI The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released a discussion paper in 2019 and then an action plan on January 21, 2021 regarding Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, or AI/ML.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law and one of its requirements was for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a national patient identifier system. In 2019, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), son of Rep. This is far from an isolated example.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

The amount of investment going into Health IT is nearly half the Post-COVID peak, but still 27% higher than Pre-COVID levels. In 1H 2022, US-based health IT companies raised $9.4B, which is 40% below 1H 2021, but still 46% higher than the amount of investment seen in 1H 2019 (see the chart below for more detail on T6M data).

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The new state plan option allows state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) agencies to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage, regardless of any changes in circumstances, through a state plan amendment (“SPA”). This option is available for five years and ends on March 31, 2027. Peterson, et.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

health care spending will grow to 20% of the national economy by 2028, forecasted in projections pre-published in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs, National Health Expenditure (NHE) Projections. 2019-28: Expected Rebound in Prices Drives Rising Spending Growth. What if home was our health hub?”

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. Anchorage’s Mobile Crisis Team hopes funding to operate 24/7 will expand ability to address mental health crises. Connecticut ditches $20M health information exchange software. CDC ends social distancing, COVID-19 quarantines.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Two separate and new OECD reports, updating health and the global economic outlook, raise two issues that are inter-related: that gains in longevity are stalling, with chronic illnesses and mental ill health affecting more people; and, as wealth grows more concentrated among the wealthy, the economic outlook around most of the world is also slowing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. health care system every other year. health care system model.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Across the U.S.,

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. What happened in the two years between the contract award and the start of the program is a case study in what can go wrong when government outsources core functions to the private sector. SACRAMENTO, Calif.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 1, 2022

Consumers, employers, and just about everyone else interested in health care prices will soon get an unprecedented look at what insurers pay for care, perhaps helping answer a question that has long dogged those who buy insurance: Are we getting the best deal we can? “I do believe the dynamics are going to change.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

National health spending in the U.S. every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

million to benefit South Side and south suburban communities in fiscal 2022 INDIANA Beacon Health announces hiring freeze, pay cuts for employees Carmel-based NICO Corp. Luke’s hospitals getting shortchanged on government funding, lawmakers say AdaptHealth to pay $5.3M

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last two decades, the last set of major HIPAA updates occurred in 2013 with the introduction of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule. The comment period closed on February 12, 2019.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

Health insurance was on the collective minds of American voters in the 2018 midterm elections. Health care, broadly defined, drove many people to the polls voting with feet and ballots to protect their access to a health plan covering a pre-existing condition or to protest the cost of expensive prescription drugs.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

California health system to outsource RCM jobs to Optum. New California public health rules make it harder to visit loved ones in nursing homes. Colorado Department of Public Health says new omicron variant detected in Denver metro area. Executive director of Colorado consumer health group to step down.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

believe that the Federal government should ensure that their fellow Americans, a new Gallup Poll found. But while there’s majority support for universal health care, we should think broadly about this concept at this moment. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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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.

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M Here’s what it means. Connecticut is weighing several changes to Medicaid.

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

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Americans least-trust social media companies, Internet search engines, and the Federal government to keep their personal information secure. I pose, prompted by this month’s survey from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on data privacy and e-cigarettes. adults 18 and older via phone in July 2019.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

KFF Health News reported last year that more than 100 million Americans are saddled with medical bills they can’t pay, and has documented aggressive bill-collection practices by hospitals, many of them nonprofits. The range of community benefit activities, reported by hospitals on IRS forms , varies considerably by organization.

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

citizens together is agreement that the cost of health care is too high in the country, and that pharma, health plans, and providers are to blame. Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S. Health Care Costs , a poll conducted by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“We’re not going to be like California and have massive numbers of people on government programs without work requirements,” DeSantis said at a presidential primary debate in Southern California earlier this year. California bans short-term health plans. California California’s drug overdose rate was 26.6

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Today is 4th November 2019, exactly one year to the day that Americans can express their political will and cast their vote for President of the United States. Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

.” I note that, by the time Americans voted in the 2018 mid-term elections, it was no surprise that lower-income Americans were highly concerned about paying higher premiums, most people earning over $75,000 a year were also very worried about covering the costs of health insurance. health care system , Gallup learned.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Senator Harris, too, mentioned government benefits like free college and Medicare for All as her health plan preference.

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