Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

Here for 2022, the second chart tracks the “stark toll” of the COVID-19 pandemic and the excess deaths experienced for each state since the pandemic emerged in February 2020. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

Legal aid attorneys, patient advocates, and insurance agents say computer glitches are not as common today as they were in the several years after California’s 2013 launch of ACA coverage. The public health emergency is scheduled to expire July 15, but it is almost certain to be extended. 3536 or www.healthconsumer.org ).

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. These services are enumerated in Section 2713 in the ACA , prompting Dr. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. population). population).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This role of patient-as-the-payor crosses consumers’ ages and demographics, and is heating up health care as the top political issue for the 2020 elections at both Federal and State levels. Four in ten consumers said their monthly health insurance premiums were increasing. One in four people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

By sunset on 3rd November 2020, millions of U.S. voters will be motivated to express their political will for health as so many voters did in the 2018 mid-term elections when folks felt the very real threat of losing health insurance coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act.

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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. Over ten years, the premium dollars grew from $13,770 in 2010 to $21K in 2020. For a worker in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. The Affordable Care Act sought to promote primary care in many provisions.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

Various smaller health insurance issuers have challenged the risk-adjustment program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), alleging, among other things, that its underlying methodology favors larger insurers. Once the new rules were published, Vista Health Plan, Inc., Vista Health Plan, Inc.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule , “Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes” (the “Proposed Rule”), that is intended to improve patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorization for medical items and services.

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

On October 29, 2020, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (“the Departments”) issued a final rule requiring private-sector health insurers and self-insured health plans to disclose treatment prices and cost-sharing information with consumers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

The good news for health care costs for a family of four in America is that they fell, for the first time in like, ever, in 2020. But like a déjà vu all over again, annual health care costs for a family of four enrolled in a PPO will climb to over $28,000 in 2021, based on the latest 2021 Milliman Medical Index (MMI).

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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”). 77-84 (2020). [5] Sutton, et. 4] Sarah H. Gordon, et.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The arithmetic of this report suggests that two domains of the six waste categories contribute to about $2 in $3 of waste: administrative complexity and pricing failures, the latter largely due to prescription drug pricing. Political debates in this 2020 U.S.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll, the year 2020 ushered in declarations of a National Emergency (“NE”) and a Public Health Emergency (“PHE”). The PHE is set to expire on May 11, 2023. In addition, H.J. 7 was signed by President Biden on April 10, which ends the NE on May 11, 2023 as well.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Connecticut ditches $20M health information exchange software. Two Health Insurers Grilled for Proposing Rate Increases of 20 and 25 Percent. Henry Ford Health reports negative operating margin. Michigan health insurance companies ordered to lower costs. Trinity Health provides Stroke Support Group.

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Compliance Now

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Biden Administration recently announced the new out-of-pocket (OOP) limits that will apply to group and individual health plans during the 2023 plan year, as well as the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Fee for plan or policy years ending on or after October 1, 2021, and before October 1, 2022. This is a $.13

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Bill of Health

MAY 12, 2023

But, unlike most other expensive medical care, IVF rarely has insurance coverage to defray the cost. In 2020, only 27% of employers with 500+ employees and 42% of employers with 20,000+ employees covered IVF in their employer plans. McCuskey In vitro fertilization (IVF), like most medical care in the U.S.,

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 17, 2022

The 2023 NBPP final rule makes regulatory changes in the individual and small group health insurance markets and establishes requirements for the 2023 benefit year. 147.104(e) to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, as had been the case prior to 2020. Clayton County.

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Healthcare Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Additional updates of note include: ACA Premium Tax Credit Eligibility. The IRA includes a three-year extension of enhanced financial assistance for people enrolled in health insurance through the marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act. Other Updates.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 27, 2023

to revisit whether to set limits for numbers of patients assigned to a nurse Tufts spent $70M on EHR install Wait times for long-term psychiatric care span months for some patients Health care leaders applaud appointment of Kate Walsh as Massachusetts health secretary As ER waits stretch for days, Mass.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

The latest (March 2021) Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll learned that at least one in three Americans were recently “struggling” to pay living expenses since December 2020, with six in ten families affected by COVID-19 having lost a job or income. Interesting, even in this very partisan moment in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

2020 marked the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Tia collaborated with Manatt Health and Merrill Research on this insightful research. ages 22 to 45 years old in September 2020. Women identified the top five personal health issues they face as: Mental health. coverage for telehealth, and.

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Healthcare Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a proposed new rule [1] that significantly expands the scope of protection available to vulnerable populations under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”). The proposed rule also follows the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. 47887; see also 81 Fed.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

Twenty Democratic President candidates each have a handful of minutes to make their case for scoring the 2020 nomination, “debating” last night and tonight on major issues facing the United States. pointing to pharma and health insurance. health care. ” But families must come first, Warren believes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2020

” As health insurance for working-age people is tied to employment, COVID-19 led to disproportionate loss of health plan coverage especially among people earning lower incomes, as well as non-white workers, explained in the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Poll: COVID-19, May-June 2020. 23% were Hispanic.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

Ezequiel Molina targets expansion of Piedmont’s heart transplant system Grady Health System’s Cole Tatman set the tone for calm in Burn Unit Northside Hospital emergency specialist Trystan Drummond has ‘uncanny’ ability to solve problems, move forward Wellstar Health System to open center for $100M innovation fund in Atlanta Wellstar, Northeast Georgia (..)

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

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. ” Majorities of people agree with this statement — even the lowest percentage of 60% of people who would favor replacing the ACA with state-run health plans. .”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Health care continues to be the top-ranked voting issue in the U.S. looking to the November 2020 Presidential and Congressional elections. The Great Unifying Healthcare Issue in 2020 is lowering the costs of prescription drugs for “as many Americans as possible” — across all 3 political parties.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

This CPI report disaggregates various line-items in the family budget such as food, energy costs, housing, and health care by specific category. Expect moderate Democrats to appeal to this potential cross-over voting bloc in the coming months as a lead-up to the Democratic primaries and eventual 2020 Presidential Election.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2020

voters on March 2nd and 3rd, 2020. In 2020, we find ourselves in America with that “revolving door” of experts and personnel that Senator Murphy mentioned. 82% think coronavirus is “real,” and not a hoax of the Democrats as the President as contended. Public Policy Polling surveyed 866 registered U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In fact, costs and financial health were actually bundled into the top 3 issues on voters’ minds, cited in the PwC survey above: healthcare, Social Security and Medicare, and the economy, together. Welcome to the 2020 Presidential campaign season, all 726 left of it.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Looking at this photo of the 2020 Democratic Party Presidential candidate debater line-up might give you a déjà vu feeling, a repeat of the night-before debate. ” Buttigieg would call it “Medicare for All Who Want It,” made available on health insurance exchanges. and Canada have some private insurance.

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