Health Populi

JULY 20, 2021

The highest turquoise blue line shows medical debt in collections in states that never expanded Medicaid with the ACA. If you had to choose between keeping the lights on and paying your mortgage and paying some doctor you’re never going to see again, I think a lot of us would make the same decision.”. This was highest in the South U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this pandemic time, we vote not just for health care , with concerns about the potential for an ACA repeal from the bench of the newly-re-formed U.S. Supreme Court , to concerns under the larger umbrella of “health.”. In the U.S., voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2024

However, the ACA states “…an insurance company must assign 80% of their premiums to activities that develop the healthcare sector.” Why would doctors go along with this? Developing the healthcare sector’ doesn’t sound like ‘paying for your colonoscopy’ to me. That leaves 46% plus in savings. There goes your savings, right? Not so much.

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 28, 2015

With all the new technologies, mobile medical applications, expansion of health care access under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the emphasis on quality of care, telemedicine is at the forefront of the health care industry. Many major health insurance carriers are backing telehealth, adding online doctor visits as a covered benefit.

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The Health Law Firm

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The Health Law Firm Despite the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) mandate that individuals acquire healthcare coverage, concierge medicine is on the rise in recent years. In times past, concierge medicine was primarily for the wealthy with patients paying thousands of dollars a month for the "royal treatment" when they went to the doctor.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

Years before the pandemic, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) revolutionized the healthcare industry and encouraged a new approach to balancing all the variables: value-based care (VBC). Patients go to a physical doctor’s office, the pharmacy for prescriptions, and so on.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

” The most trusted spokespeople globally were found to be — far and away #1 — doctors and health authorities, among 4 in 5 consumers across the 12 nations polled. Finally, 61% of U.S. But the situation still gets worse.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, the research found that, compared with primary care doctors in other countries, a large proportion of U.S. The January 2020 Health Affairs published a paper on Primary Care Physicians’ Role in Coordinating Medical and Health-Related Social Needs in Eleven Countries. ” The U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

and other nations’ doctors — who may be underpaid overseas, the study points out. The study points to salaries of generalist and specialty physicians in the U.S. being “markedly higher” than in other countries, with specialists paid twice as much in the U.S. as in the U.K. and Germany.

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Physician Credentialing Company

MAY 16, 2024

Physician-Hospital Organizations Physician-Hospital Organizations (PHOs) represent a partnership between doctors and hospitals aiming to align interests and enhance healthcare delivery. Two common types of MSO arrangements are Physician-Hospital Organizations (PHOs) and Independent Practice Associations (IPAs).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Consumers make personal clinical decisions that can be against “doctor’s orders” and shop for health care at another provider site that can be less costly and/or have better consumer reviews or word-of-mouth (with 4 in 5 consumers traveling past the closest hospital to one further away due to a better reputation).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Making sure all communities have access to enough doctors and hospitals, among other highly valued health care and health system goals. Making sure people with preexisting conditions can get affordable insurance. Covering long-term care for the elderly and disabled.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Related Stories Micky Tripathi’s glass-half-full view of EHR interoperability – Harlow on Healthcare Joyce Lee, Doctor As Designer talks design thinking — Harlow On Healthcare Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare. “Burn the boats.” Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

One key issue is provider readiness for change, since we have “a sick care system, not a health care system.” ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.” One key issue is provider readiness for change, since we have “a sick care system, not a health care system.” Burn the boats.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For over a decade, through my health economics lens, I’ve pointed out the self-rationing impacts that HDHPs have had on consumers’ health behaviors, such as postponing needed healthcare services, avoiding doctors’ appointments due to cost, skipping prescription fills, cutting pills, and other avoidance “choices.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Punctuating the issue of costs, being able to pay for health care tops Americans’ list of the most important characteristic in the health care system — above being seen by a doctor in a timely matter/not long wait, sufficient time to spend with a doctor, access to specialists, prevention, and a choice of health plans.

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They paid bribes, kickbacks, set up phony jobs in doctors’ offices. Sellinger commented, “These defendants admitted taking part in an elaborate and years-long scheme to use their specialty pharmacy to rip off Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

professions saw the first major drop in pharmacists’ reputations, compared with nurses and doctors remaining highly ranked. Note that for the first time in a decade, the Gallup Poll on ethics and honesty in U.S. Typically, pharmacists have ranked first or second in this Gallup poll, but fell to 5th place in the professions in 2017.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Recall the 2014 blockbuster article by Atul Gawande during the ACA adoption that pointed out the broad range of variability in practices and pricing among McAllen, Texas physicians. They have created 12 high value protocols to be followed by their doctors, along with order sets to be used in such protocols.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2024

Often, consumers who are targeted don’t know they’ve been enrolled or that their coverage has been switched to a new plan until they lose access to preferred doctors, learn they have different deductibles, or find they owe taxes for ACA insurance premium subsidies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

political/election outcomes that could result in a significantly different payor mix: the major aspect of which will be whether Medicaid will grow as part of a bolstered ACA under a Biden administration, or whether a repealed ACA would diminish the role of Medicaid and underpin a bigger self-pay market.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 31, 2022

So when her primary care doctor suggested she be screened for colorectal cancer in September, Melville dutifully prepped for her colonoscopy and went to New London Hospital’s outpatient department for the zero-cost procedure. The former generally incurs no cost to patients under the ACA; the latter can generate bills.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

Still, the data comes as former Vice President Joe Biden — who has spurned a single-payer system in favor of expanding the ACA with a public option — continues holding tight to his 13-point advantage over Sen. Part B for doctors’ services is premium-paid on a monthly basis, running between $133.50 Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.),

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 16, 2022

Es uno de los principales productos", dijo el doctor Rishi Manchanda, que ha trabajado con pacientes de bajos ingresos en California durante más de una década y ha formado parte de la junta directiva de la organización sin fines de lucro RIP Medical Debt. "Es La deuda ya no es solo un error en nuestro sistema.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

While Millennials were least likely to visit a doctor’s office in the past year, they had the most likelihood of making a visit to a mental health provider, to seek chiropractic care, urgent care, and acupuncture — all services delivered outside of traditional medical home settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

In my own family, my Uncle Roy struggled to manage his type 2 diabetes—he constantly missed doctor appointments, failed to take his medications, and never checked his blood sugars. Most things we “should do” don’t give us immediate gratification (eating right, exercising, taking medications, going to the doctor).

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Esa política de gran alcance entra en vigencia en enero y va mucho más allá de la expansión opcional de Medicaid que la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) ofreció a los estados. Florida no cuenta con un mercado estatal, ni ofrece subsidios patrocinados por el estado.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Diagnostic discrimination resulting from a company policy would likely violate Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Ineffective communication can lead not only to medical discrimination by doctors, but also lower rates of testing, vaccination, and treatment efforts by patients. .

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

But that won’t mean Americans will be ready to return to pre-pandemic health care visits to hospital and doctor’s offices. While Republicans inside Congress may want to block building on the ACA, most of the U.S. With a vaccine supply proliferating in the U.S. electorate is in favor.

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AIHC

AUGUST 13, 2024

Written by Corliss Collins , BSHIM, RHIT, CRCR, CSM, CCA, CBCS, CPDC and Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS The 2024 Final Rule for Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on April 26, 2024.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

physicians for Omada Health by Sermo recently looked into doctors’ views on how GLP-1s would be best delivered to patients. [For more on that, you can read my post serving up more of that context and controversy]. A poll conducted among 2,000 U.S. The research was fielded between December 30, 2024 and January 7, 2025].

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2018

President Trump and his administrative have been trying to make the ACA fail, claim most U.S. Other issues of concern include repealing the ACA, Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Health care will be a key issue in the 2018 mid-term elections that will be held in November.

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Kaiser Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Biden administration plans to push states to boost oversight of the number of doctors, hospitals, and other health providers insurers cover in Obamacare plans, under rules proposed in November. The rules also set additional guardrails on the growing number of states that have chosen to run their own ACA marketplaces.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The big headline in this poll following last night’s third Democratic Presidential debate is that 55% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Independent voters prefer a candidate that will build on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) versus a President that would replace the ACA with a Medicare For All plan (M4A). The post Most U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Americans are roughly split — and/or equally confused — about the differences between three major health reform approaches: Medicare -for-All, improving the existing Affordable Care Act, or replacing the ACA with state-run health plans. The split across U.S. voters was 32%, 28% and 29% respectively.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Just look at the decreasing numbers of doctors. What’s worse, Medicare actually fuels higher drug prices, by paying doctors and hospitals an add-on fee for drugs that is set at a percentage of the cost of the drug. Doctors receive less from their Medicare reimbursement than they do from private insurance for the same services.

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Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Among the takeaways from this week’s episode: The “family glitch” arose because under ACA rules, people offered insurance through their workplace generally don’t qualify for subsidies if they instead purchase a policy on the marketplace — unless their work insurance is deemed unaffordable.

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