Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. If the U.S.

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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 28, 2019

The study also addressed the politics of health care leading up to the 2020 Presidential election. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Americans’ mentions of “government” as a top U.S. Americans pointed to government as the top problem in the U.S., Americans pointed to government as the top problem in the U.S.,

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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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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In January 2021 , the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States were trending back to early pandemic levels and on-pace to be deadlier than 2020. In January 2021 , the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States were trending back to early pandemic levels and on-pace to be deadlier than 2020. Yet the threat was far from gone.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

Policy analysts at KFF estimated the total value of nonprofit hospitals’ exemptions in 2020 at about $28 billion, much higher than the $16 billion in free or discounted services they provided through the charity care portion of their community benefits. Ideas for reforms, though, have run up against powerful hospital opposition.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In March 2020 , Congress expanded unemployment benefits at unprecedented levels, subsidized businesses, guaranteed paid sick leave for many workers, and broadened Medicaid eligibility. The main motivation behind this campaign was to ensure that the capitalist class would not incur the cost of the pandemic via government intervention.

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