Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

The last chart from the Commonwealth Fund 2022 State Scorecard talks about the rate of uninsurance by state — think ZIP code or personal GPS — calling out the fact that a dozen Governors did not expand Medicaid to accommodate ACA health plan enrollment for their health citizens.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

Uncle Roy’s story is not unique; the individual behaviors that people with chronic conditions perform on a daily basis are the most important determinant of future health outcomes. But, it’s estimated that 40% of health outcomes are actually attributed to our individual behavior. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Health citizens living in states in New England, and then those west of Michigan and north of Missouri and Kansas, demonstrate better-than-average health outcomes. Light blue to blue is a good thing; the grey area is negative for level of uninsured population and greater self-rationing health care services due to costs.

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Health Insurance Health Outcomes ACA Public Health 74

Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

This policy improves coverage and helps reduce churn , which is associated with poor health outcomes.

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Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Public Health 144

Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Louis hospital ‘You can’t do this to people’: Patients say they waited 12 hours to be treated at hospital Missouri health system names CEO Petitions seek to add rape, incest exceptions to Missouri abortion law Cigna exiting ACA exchanges in Kansas, Missouri for 2024 ‘It’s a win-win for everybody’: Gov.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Citing the ongoing impact that prior authorization has on patient care, health system costs, and administrative burdens for providers, CMS seeks to streamline the prior authorization process in the Proposed Rule by requiring the following changes. The CMS Fact Sheet and FAQs provide further insight on the proposed changes.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Mothers with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (“FPL”) in states which have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) are eligible to remain covered by Medicaid and those with incomes above 138% FPL may be eligible to qualify for subsidized coverage through the ACA marketplace.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

1] These modifications are intended to further the Biden Administration’s goals of advancing health equity by addressing disparities in access to quality care while minimizing administrative burdens and ensuring program integrity. Reducing the risk adjustment user fee for 2025 from $0.21 per member per month to reduce insurer costs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

and how much care would be postponed or never realized in the health care system. A big uncertainty in this year’s forecast, pondering the 2022 picture, is what extent eliminate care will have on future adverse health outcomes… something that keeps my scenario planning humming across various modeling.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Health Outcomes Public Health 174

Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Mississippi Health Innovation conference searches for new solutions to improve health outcomes. Health department will hire an outsider to evaluate Mississippi COVID-19 response. Rise in monkeypox cases lead to health concerns in Mississippi. Demand for mental health services outpaces expectations.

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COVID-19 Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses 40

Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

On April 20, 2022, CMS announced its strategy to advance health equity, which is intended to engage all CMS Centers and Offices to identify its current health equity status and “respond to inequities in health outcomes, barriers to coverage, and access to care.” [2]

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

This study assessed consumers’ search for health insurance marketplace plans extended through the Affordable Care Act, analyzing the experience of 32 “assisters,” trained professionals who help consumers navigate their choice of plans.

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Hall Render

MARCH 29, 2024

The Triangle’s health outcomes rank among highest in the nation What HCA has told feds it’s doing to fix staffing issues at Mission Hospital. NEW HAMPSHIRE Ambulance service in N.H. Why nurses say it’s not happening. operating loss; new CFO to begin July 1 Cincinnati healthcare staffing company agrees to pay $9.25

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

Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

in 2022 Pediatric clinic will buy Kaleideum building in downtown Winston-Salem Why this Raleigh pharma just cut half its workforce Finding good health care in rural eastern N.C. claims 4th-, 5th-largest U.S. on revenue of $2.1B

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US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes COVID-19 Nurses 40

Hall Render

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

institute focused on health equity Medical providers at D.C.’s Vincent’s Riverside has conducted over 800 robotic-assisted procedures Baptist Health Care in talks to donate hospital campus Florida nonprofit hospitals focused on serving low-income residents Florida Rep.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

And keeping a job usually means holding on to health insurance when the employee has been receiving it at work. Given the frailty of the ACA health insurance marketplaces (which was not addressed in the recent Congressional budget deal , much to Sen. Healthcare costs are bundled into household economics.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

operating margin, $579M net gain for its first post-merger quarter GE HealthCare invests in augmented reality firm on ‘X-ray vision’ technology Marshfield Clinic reports $32.6M

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

Health Populi

JULY 25, 2018

President Trump and his administrative have been trying to make the ACA fail, claim most U.S. Thus, the public holds the POTUS and the Republican party responsible for moving the Affordable Care Act forward… or not, according to the July 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

I bring it to this synthesis of the two nights because too much of the health reform discussion focused on insurance without attending to social determinants of health and the direct relationship between socioeconomic status and health outcomes. The rise of deaths of despair in the U.S.

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