Bill of Health

MAY 12, 2023

McCuskey In vitro fertilization (IVF), like most medical care in the U.S., 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.

ACA 241

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, in 2020 and 2021, the AMA touted more advocacy efforts related to scope of practice that it did for any other issue — including COVID-19. It continues to lobby intensely against allowing other clinicians to perform tasks traditionally performed by physicians, commonly called “scope of practice” laws.

COVID-19 224

COVID-19 Nurses Doctors Medicare 224

Bill of Health

MARCH 3, 2022

billion in 2020-21, equivalent to 1.5% The costs of clinical negligence are stated in clear terms: “The costs of clinical negligence claims are rising at an unsustainable rate; annual cash payments have quadrupled in the past 15 years to £2.2 of the NHS budget.

Malpractice 246

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

That is for the immediate-near term under the fragmented, high-cost health care system that currently challenge American health citizens. Today as Election Day, I recall my post published yesterday here in Health Populi on U.S. voters’ perspectives on health care reform looking toward Election Day 2020.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. Narsh contacted an attorney, who negotiated the bill with the state.

Hospitals 55

Hospitals Medical Billing Health Care Reform Health Insurance 55

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Unsurprisingly, a lack of health insurance coverage during the pandemic was associated with more deaths; while excess mortality rates varied widely between states , they strongly correlated with uninsurance.

COVID-19 157

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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. But as we moved into the second year of the pandemic, tolerance for state-ordered closures and mitigation measures was waning and political resistance was rising.

Public Health 176

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. As the first chart shows, trend will grow 6% from 2019 to 2020. In that decade, Americans’ median wages rose 1.8% This is an increase of 0.3 percentage points up from 5.7%

Health Care Reform 58

Health Care Reform Doctors 58

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. Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. If the U.S.

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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.

Hospitals 66

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Critics warn that private equity roll-ups of medical groups can jeopardize quality of care, too. Chris Strouse, a Denver anesthesiologist who served on USAP’s national board of directors but left the company’s Colorado group out of disapproval in 2020, cited patient safety issues arising from short staffing and mismanagement.

Hospitals 124

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 5, 2022

.” In Georgia, where the testing bill awaits the governor’s approval, public health officials said fentanyl-related overdose deaths jumped after the start of the covid-19 pandemic, doubling between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021, compared with the same span in 2019 and 2020.

Public Health 97

Public Health COVID-19 Health Care Reform 97

Kaiser Health News

APRIL 22, 2022

Drug pricing experts said there’s no question that insulin’s list price (the amount charged to consumers and their health plans) has risen over the past decade. 5, 2021 USA Today, “ Gaetz Justifies ‘No’ Vote on Insulin Cap Bill by Saying Diabetics Should Lose Weight, ” April 5, 2022 Mother Jones, “ Rep.

Pharmaceutical Industry 118

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

Data obtained by WBUR after Massachusetts lawmakers asked for it in 2020 said that there were more than 700 requests nationwide for deferred action for medical reasons in 2018 and that fewer than half were approved. Those numbers plummeted in 2019.

Health Insurance 73

Health Insurance Doctors Governance Licensing 73

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. Responses to the final rule have been mixed.

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Regulatory Compliance Hospitals Compliance Health Insurance 40

Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

Datos obtenidos por WBUR después de que legisladores de Massachusetts los solicitaran en 2020 revelaron que, en 2018, hubo más de 700 solicitudes de acción diferida por razones médicas. Menos de la mitad fueron aprobadas.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Health Care Reform 52

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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Governance Health Care Reform FDA ACA 74

Hall Render

MARCH 29, 2024

Here’s how S.C.

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Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Hospitals 40

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health.

Single Payer Health Care 52

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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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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. electorate is in favor.

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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. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. Nurses held majority trust across all three political positions for health care reform. In the context of U.S.

ACA 52

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At Health Populi and THINK-Health, we’re closely watching tomorrow’s elections for healthcare implications — for national health care reform, action at the state levels, and ultimately, the impacts for patients, consumers and caregivers in the U.S.

Medicaid 76

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

is on the right track, and are least likely to vote for President Trump in 2020. This group is less likely to support universal health care or the guarantee of pre-existing condition coverage, yet are more keen on access to treatment for drug and alcohol service. Over one-half of the Skeptical and Searching believe that the U.S.

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