Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. An October 2019 CBS News Poll on how Americans feel about U.S. Men vs. women.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Global Health Equity Care.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

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. A few weeks ago, we published Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds.

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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

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

counties revealed that most of observed racial disparities for COVID-19 deaths persisted after controlling for overall 2019 mortality rates and COVID-19 cases per 100,000. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The FDA approved S-ketamine to treat depression in 2019. For example, Field Trip Health was a prominent early provider in this field, offering six-session packages of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for around $5,000. Yet, insurance coverage alone is an imperfect solution because millions of Americans have no health insurance.

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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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HIT Consultant

JULY 19, 2022

The Institute for Healthcare improvement indicates that twice as many healthcare organizations cite health equity as a top priority today when compared to 2019. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) recently assembled a truly impressive list of what health plans across the nation are doing.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Maternal and Infant Health Crisis The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1,205 women died due to childbirth-associated health complications in 2021, up from 754 in 2019. These high rates are largely due to scheduling-related convenience and financial incentives from health insurance reimbursement.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

adults are anxious about their financial future as of May 2020, an increase from 38% in late 2019. There was a bounce in “Confident” group in 2019, which fell by 10% just months later to nearly the 2017 level. Make affordable, accessible health insurance coverage available to more Americans.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

The patient filed a complaint with OCR in April 2019. OCR notified the former patient by letter dated April 18, 2019, that the investigation had been informally closed by providing technical assistance to ACPM. The deadline to appeal his health insurance company’s determination was July 2, 2019. No Response.

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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). Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies].

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. Finally, invest “broadly” in social services to address factors that are determinants of health and well-being, like housing and economic security. Because these public health emergencies will continue to live with us, in every ZIP code.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2021

As a signal of change, Accenture pointed to Ipsos’s newly-designed Consumer Health & Safety Index which tracks retailers’ performance on health and safety based on consumers’ perceptions (FYI, Costco and Whole Foods came out well in that first Index report].

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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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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. Minnesota has been offering a doula benefit since 2014.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

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. “The new Thrive Local network will start rolling out summer 2019,” K-P’s press release said.

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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

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 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386. MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166.

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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

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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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. This premium growth was 1 percentage point below the 5% uptick in 2019. For a worker in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

The Health Care Cost Institute’s January 2019 study found that some people with diabetes have made a decision to cut the amount of the drug they use or abandon it due to increasing costs for the life-sustaining therapy.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

For example, healthcare providers can promote healthy lifestyles, raise awareness of emerging health issues, and make announcements when special clinics or services are available to the public. However, it is important to understand what is considered PHI under HIPAA. Avoiding HIPAA Social Media Violations.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

Those majority-statistics are shown in the bar chart, whose top-line was that cost was an important factor in health consumers’ decisions whether or not to seek coronavirus-related medical care. The pandemic has revealed many cracks in the U.S. Today’s news that the U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 19, 2023

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: We used to say, “all companies are tech companies” as e-business and the role of the Internet became merged with “just” business and everyday, mainstream work- and life-flows. As such, every company is a health/care company, regardless of industry. In the U.S.,

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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

JANUARY 7, 2019

For more hard-core athletes, CES 2019 features an eSports area with all flavors of digital sports from golf to hockey and tennis. This is one of many products on the #CES2019 show floor that is backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning (one of the CTA 5 Tech Trends for 2019 that I wrote about in yesterday’s Health Populi).

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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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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The second chart details the most significant sources of stress from 2019 into 2021. Those stress sources that increases in the three years were, in terms of statistical significance: The economy, increasing from 46% stressed to 59% stressed. Housing costs, growing from 45% stressed to 51% stressed.

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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. Now that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency has been declared over, that period of enforcement discretion is due to terminate.

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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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