Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. One in two people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. for 2024 medical trend. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Now more than ever before, patients are interested in being active participants in their care, selecting the right health partner, and connecting with their providers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries — especially striking differences between black people and whites in death rates and complications due to COVID-19. That’s the rights side of the civics ledger.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the recent IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Health Industry 2021 Predictions report, experts at IDC Health Insights offer their thoughts about the issues healthcare and life science organizations will contend with over the next year and beyond. WHY IT MATTERS. " ON THE RECORD.

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Compliance Now

AUGUST 10, 2023

As background, according to federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules, individuals have 60 days from losing CHIP and Medicaid eligibility to elect coverage under their group plan. The real potential of this number growing daily is what has prompted the Agencies to issue this “request.”

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Newsom, a liberal firebrand in his second term as governor of California, isn’t running for president in 2024. Front and center will be homelessness and health care, top priorities for voters — and issues that have largely defined the governors’ policies and leadership styles. 30 in Georgia. He is funding a $4.7

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Hall Render

JANUARY 5, 2024

Wade; expected to remain big issue in 2024 races Most nursing home residents in Arizona still haven’t gotten their COVID-19 booster COVID-19 hospitalizations are up in Arizona and around the U.S.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

Notably, the Act neither fulfilled the Biden Administration’s request for additional COVID-19 response funding nor included the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge In Vitro Clinical Test (IVCT) Development (VALID) Act, which proposed updating the current diagnostic testing regulatory framework.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2022

The proposed Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would enable job creators to offer standalone telehealth service programs – not unlike dental and vision plans – in addition to existing health insurance plans. This past month, more than 330 stakeholders lobbied Congress to extend telehealth waivers through 2024.

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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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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For calendar year plans, this means that the extension applies for the 2023 and 2024 calendar years. Third party administrators, health insurance companies, and other plan service providers should communicate this relief extension to their employer clients and operationalize first dollar telehealth coverage for clients who choose to adopt it.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 24, 2023

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. During the primary, Republican presidential candidates don’t really want to talk about health insurance and health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2023

As we exit the long-tail of the COVID-19 pandemic, we should focus on macroeconomic forces that will set the table for health care costs, employment, consumer spending, and of course, inflation. consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance, conducted in April 2023. AHIP commissioned a survey among 1,000 U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

The giant health care, climate, and tax bill expected to pass the House on Friday and be sent to the president for his signature won’t be as sweeping as the Democrats who wrote it had hoped, but it would help millions of Americans better afford their prescription drugs and health insurance. “It’s historic.

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C&M Health Law

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In August, the Federal Trade Commission also issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on the prevalence of commercial surveillance and data security practices, including in the health care sector. In July 2022, the House of Representatives passed, 416-12, the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021 ( H.R.4040

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 19, 2024

To implement this program and get connectivity into consumers’ hands and homes, Elevance Health is collaborating with several telecomms companies including Verizon, AT&T, Samsung, and T-Mobile. This month, a paper on the digital determinants of health was published in PLOS Digital Health.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 29, 2023

hospitals for maternity care UMass Memorial Medical Center to reinstate caregiver mask mandate Massachusetts health system sees over $17M FY ’23 profit Mass. hospitals for maternity care UMass Memorial Medical Center to reinstate caregiver mask mandate Massachusetts health system sees over $17M FY ’23 profit Mass.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last two decades, the last set of major HIPAA updates occurred in 2013 with the introduction of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule. Proposed HIPAA Privacy Rule Changes in 2023.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 2020, specific restrictions on Medicare coverage and reimbursement for telehealth services were waived for the duration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) in the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2020 and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 20, 2023

nursing home advocate: industry in ‘death spiral’ from lack of health care providers, low pay Georgia medical center named one of the ‘most beautiful hospitals in the U.S.’ grant to train 140 ‘complex care’ nurses Health Foundation of Central Mass. Maryland hospitals have ways to help them stop.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thanks to smartphones, tablets, laptops, hotspots and home Wi-Fi, today most people’s access to healthcare – including everything from health insurance to prescription refills to online therapy – is at our fingertips. Since the launch of the internet in 1993, western society has advanced at an exponential rate.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M operating margin, $1B net gain halfway through its first year Illinois public health officials warn of “rising COVID-19 activity” St.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Septo“ refers to “seven:” along with the triple-demic of COVID-19, influenza and RSV, add in four more viruses: parainfluenza (a cause of croup), rhinovirus, metapneumovirus, as well as pneumococcus which is still alive and replicating. Reported in MIT Technology Review on December 19, 2022. “In

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 18, 2024

The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind. Patients’ willingness to share their personal health information is eroding, varying by age group and race/ethnicity along with the kind of organizations folks would share with.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

As we pass the two-year anniversary of the federal price transparency rule and enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, I foresee five trends emerging in the industry. According to America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), many commercial insurers–up to 94% of them–are already providing such tools.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

with more than 5 Magnet designations Four more years: Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Wellstar re-up contract Hospital fails to dodge $10M malpractice verdict after attempting to pin payment on radiologist New survey reveals insight into Georgia’s maternal health crisis New chief medical officer hired for St.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 26, 2024

hospitals Savannah hospitals at full capacity Georgia lawmaker proposes bill to limit AI’s use in health insurance decisions 6 GA Hospitals Among Best In US: New Ranking ‘It can all start there’: This is why Georgia is investing in behavioral health crisis centers $2.2M

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Coalition of hospitals, health plans and others urge for stronger guidance around third-party apps. Hospital, long-term care groups again petition Becerra to extend COVID-19 public health emergency. Alaska’s top doctor on living with COVID in the post-restriction era. Colorado Health Foundation Names New CIO.

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Hall Render

APRIL 15, 2022

CMS revises COVID-19 nursing home protocols. Congress breaks for recess with $10B COVID-19 aid in limbo. HHS reveals strategy on social determinants of health. HHS extends COVID-19 public health emergency for another 90 days. court reinstates Biden federal employee COVID vaccine mandate.

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Hall Render

MAY 24, 2024

New York health plans pitch merger NYC hospital-building boom on Upper East Side roils upper-crust residents NYU Langone opens ASC in NYC Urgent care center ranks No. New York health plans pitch merger NYC hospital-building boom on Upper East Side roils upper-crust residents NYU Langone opens ASC in NYC Urgent care center ranks No.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

in federal funds for hospitals State of the State 2024: Arkansas health care faces challenges Study ranks Arkansas at the absolute bottom for dental health A mosaic of medical staffing solutions: Groups work to increase health care workforce in Northwest Arkansas CHI St. ‘We

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Standardizing Housing, Food Insecurity, and Transportation Questions on Health Risk Assessments (§ 422.101). Not surprisingly, CMS fielded questions about how to apply 422.100(m) given the COVID-19 pandemic and has taken the opportunity to codify prior guidance and resolve ambiguities.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 22, 2023

health care spending hits $4.5 Yale New Haven sale key to Prospect hospitals’ survival, CEO says YNHH sale ‘paramount’ to CT Prospect hospitals’ survival, CEO says Connecticut hospital cut ED visits by nearly 50% Hartford HealthCare unveils new ‘health desk’ model Connecticut physician sentenced for $2.6M

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

in repairs Sutter Health faces possible $519M payout in alleged double billing case COLORADO Denver Health sued by sons after father’s jail death How a Kaiser Permanente worker strike could affect Colorado patients Kaiser names regional president Medical Office Building in Littleton Sells for $6.1M

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