Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Bill of Health

MAY 19, 2022

from 2018-2019. Therapeutic Value Assessments of Novel Medicines in the US and Europe, 2018-2019. Hospital-Administered Cancer Therapy Prices for Patients With Private Health Insurance. The post Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy appeared first on Bill of Health. JAMA Oncol. JAMA Netw Open.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The PHS Act requires post-graduate physician training programs that do not perform induced abortions to be deemed accredited and protects governmental payments provided as reimbursement for carrying out health related activities. Medicaid and Medicare The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105–33, 111 Stat.

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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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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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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 With Medicaid, the challenges are equally formidable.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2023

A lawsuit – Young, et al. Good Samaritan Hospital ­­ – was filed in the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County against the hospital on behalf of individuals impacted by the data breach.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. health care dollar. Sahni and colleagues published the data-details in an article published by McKinsey & Company , the top-line of which appears in the first graphic from the publication. Administrative spending comprise 25% of the $3.8

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 23, 2023

The investigation confirmed its systems were accessed by an unauthorized individual between April 5, 2019, and May 7, 2019, and again from August 27, 2021, to October 10, 2021.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The breach involved names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, financial account information, health insurance policy numbers, medical record numbers, Medicaid/Medicare IDs, and health information, including diagnosis and treatment information. The tool was removed in August 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 25, 2022

The data includes names, dates of birth, ID numbers, expected due dates, referring physician names, sonographer names, ultrasound results, drug and alcohol use histories, other health information, and some records include credit card information and health insurance information.

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Healthcare Law Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to the Administration for Community Living (ACL), 1 as of 2019, people 65 and older represented 16% of the population of the United States; that is approximately 54 million people. As of 2019 almost 95% of such persons had Medicare coverage and about half of those also had some sort of supplemental health insurance coverage.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In research from HealthPocket , 2 in 5 Americans said they needed to reduce other household expenses to be able to afford their monthly insurance premiums. Four in ten consumers said their monthly health insurance premiums were increasing. on an annual basis as of October 2019. in the 12 months including October 2019.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

FAIR Health based these numbers on private insurance claims associated with COVID-19 diagnoses, evaluating patient demographics (age, gender, geography), hospital charges and estimated allowed amounts, and patient comorbidities. privately-insured people. They used two ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes for this research: U07.1,

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

On April 17, 2023 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2024 Final Rule (the “Notice”) that includes standards for issuers and Marketplaces, and requirements for agents, brokers, web-brokers and others.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power,” your mind probably imagines reviews of automotive performance, retail shopping experiences, or perhaps even health insurance plan customer service. Expanding its report-card role in the health ecosystem. Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019. In 2019, 28 states have payment parity policies for Medicaid.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Federally funded community health centers are critical, especially in underserved communities. In 2019, nearly 30 million people across the U.S. visited an HRSA health center. of residents lacking health insurance. Social Determinants of Health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With new rules emanating from the White House this month focusing on health care price transparency, health care costs are in the spotlight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The post Being Transparent About Healthcare Transparency – My Post on the Medecision Blog appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Commercial Member Health Plan Study. exploring consumer satisfaction with some 150 health insurance plans operating in 22 regions around the U.S. Power assessed the opinions of 32,066 commercial health plan members between January and March 2021. Power has conducted the U.S. This year, J.D.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 10, 2023

On August 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Final Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) and Long-Term Care Hospital (“LTCH”) PPS rule for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024 (“Final Rule”). The Final Rule increases the rate for IPPS payments by 3.3% in FY 2024 but applies a 0.2%

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Contrary to perception, access to broadband and mobile phones are not the greatest barrier to digital health among Medicaid recipients. They access the internet at the same rates as other insured populations , and in many ways are more engaged with their smartphones because they are disproportionately dependent on them.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. medical trend growth projected for 2019 that will impact healthcare providers, insurers, and suppliers to the industry. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0% economy by 2026.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

Respondents were both uninsured and insured through individual coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual enrollees. To further bolster SDoHs that address health equity, public policies can and must also be baked with health, from transportation to food systems and education.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), recently issued a proposed rule to adopt standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) for “health care attachment” transactions (the “Proposed Rule”).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

Ranking top for great or high harm, three in four physicians said that the, “loss of health insurance because of employment changes caused by COVID-19” would cause great harm to patients. Furthermore, nine in ten companies plans to offer virtual care for telemental health, a fast-growing aspect of virtual care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

adults age 18 and over in June 2019. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The 2019 Stress in America survey published this week from the American Psychological Association found that 7 in 10 Americans find that the issues of mass shootings and health care are significant sources of stress. Medicare, Medicaid).

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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. This is also called “store-and-forward telemedicine.”

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

In America, health insurance coverage is tied to employment, so some portion of health citizens who filed for unemployment will fall into the uninsurance rolls, unable to afford buying into COBRA plans when offered or without an ability to buy a plan in a state that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

These conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, exacerbated for some patients due to peoples’ “medical distancing” — avoiding or postponing outpatient visits for routine health services and chronic care management. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

The Report is another example of the OIG fanning the fire of criticism of MAOs by ignoring the overwhelming evidence that MAOs provide access to medically necessary services and also minimized the program requirements and guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), with which MAOs must comply. The OIG Report.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the past decade, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering SDoH through a variety of lenses across the health/care ecosystem, including care providers like hospitals, health insurance companies, pharma and life science, retail health care front doors, and non-profits and foundations.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

Care Health Plan CEO John Baackes to retire later this year MarinHealth, UCSF Health buy ASC stake from SCA Health Meet the leaders of the 11 best hospitals in California for spine surgery Prime ramps up hospital real estate acquisitions, pay down debt Ransomware Attacks Reported by 4 Healthcare Providers Stanislaus County is considering major cuts (..)

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Medical Coding ChatGPT can potentially be trained to comprehend Medicare and Medicaid codes, prepare billing reports, and process claims, which would significantly reduce the workload for coders and also provide a potential backup confirmation to reduce potential billing and coding errors. 9] Minimum Necessary Requirement | HHS.gov

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Patients most-trust their clinicians, physicians and nurses, as safe places in which to have an honest SDoH discussion, compared with a health insurance representative. But age is a factor in these conversations, where younger people are more comfortable talking about SDoHs with clinicians than older people.

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