Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The digitization wave triggered by the HITECH Act and the ACA has yet to hit long-term care , John learned in his conversation with Bill Charnetski at PointClickCare. Read more… Reducing Confusion Eases Medical Billing Stress. Read more… Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-Term Care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

These services are enumerated in Section 2713 in the ACA , prompting Dr. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.” Some of the most important areas of the Center’s impact include initiatives addressing low-value care, waste in U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses. electorate is in favor.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say. The second chart (called Figure 3 in the KFF poll report) illustrates this political fact. This whole world is rough, it’s just getting rougher. Cover me, come on baby, cover me.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The objectives would be to stabilize the insurance premiums in individual health insurance marketplaces, to provide relief and flexibility to employers, to reduce system-wide health care costs across payers (including ending surprise medical bills and eliminating barriers to prescription drug competition), to improve Medicare (eg.,

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Health Insurance Medicare Medicare Medicaid 79

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One-half of people age 18 to 64 have received a surprise medical bill they thought would be covered by insurance, and one-third say that the ability to pay for care they need is the most pressing issue in American healthcare. adults in August 2018.

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Health Insurance Medical Billing Hospitals Public Health 88

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

98% of Americans rank paying their medical bills is an important pain point in their patient journey, according to Embracing consumerism: Driving customer engagement in the healthcare financial journey , from Experian Health. Beyond the physical and emotional pain that people experience when they become a patient, in the U.S.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

to resolve False Claims allegations Q&A with Ken DeFurio, CEO of the new Independence Health System St.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

health consumers’ trust in hospitals fell (partly due to surprise medical bills and patients-as-payors’ financial stress). Edelman’s Trust Barometer has noted a precipitous decline in Americans’ trust in government and media over the past several years. In the past one year, U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Half of under-insured adults had problems with medical bills or debt, and 2 in 5 said they did not get needed healthcare due to cost. One-fourth of insured Americans, about 41 million people, were defined as under-insured in late 2016, double the 2003 rate when The Fund began to poll on this question.

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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).

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Collapse of private equity-backed Missouri hospitals mired employees in medical bills. Eastern New Mexico Medical Center names Adelane Kelly CFO and Kyle Stepp assistant CEO. Medical billing vendor data breach affects more than 942,000 patients. ACA health plan costs to drop sharply in Virginia. WASHINGTON.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 2, 2022

Democrats are also under pressure to move quickly if they want to extend the premium subsidies for plans purchased on the ACA insurance marketplaces. If you have an outrageous medical bill you want to share with us, you can do that here.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Third and fourth on voters’ minds are protecting patients from surprise medical bills and better addressing drug addiction. For Democrats, ensuring ACA protections for pre-existing conditions holds. Lowering Rx prices is the top health policy issue for Republicans tied with addressing the drug epidemic.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This links to protecting coverage with pre-existing conditions and surprise medical bill concerns, as well. Cast your eyes to the fourth to the last line item: “trying again to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (aka ACA or Obamacare”). There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table.

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Medical Billing ACA Public Health 79

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. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

A Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll published April 24, 2019 found that most Americans health care policy priorities were to lower health care and prescription drug costs, ensure the ACA’s coverage of pre-existing conditions, and protect people from surprise medical bills.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 20, 2022

And while President Joe Biden has accomplished a lot in his first 365 days in office, such as expanding health insurance coverage and implementing a congressional ban on “surprise” medical bills, a big part of his health agenda remains mired in Congress.

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Medical Billing ACA Health Insurance Medicaid 93

Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

Jude names Greg Armstrong chair of Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control Wellvana Health closes $84 million round of funding Why freestanding emergency departments could be key to TriStar Health’s expansion plans Hospital: Treatment, discharge of Tennessee woman who died appropriate Chris Cosby named CEO of Parkridge hospital Methodist (..)

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

Other issues, like a new Medicare-for-All plan, repealing/replacing the ACA, and protecting people from surprise medical bills were less important to people. percent in 2016 at the moment when President Trump promised to “repeal and replace” the ACA. from a low of 10.9 Of course, this has not happened.

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Medicare Medicare ACA Health Insurance 67

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

These people included the official “navigators” conceived and funded by the ACA, certified application counselors, and other people who help consumers identify health insurance plans on the marketplaces. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2018

.” In the sample, two-thirds of respondents had seen a health care provider for an illness or medical condition in the past 12 months, so two-thirds of the survey sample have faced a medical encounter yielding some kind of medical bill in the past year. The second chart shows the roughly 50/50 split of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

This bar chart shows that 50% of working-age adults would not have sufficient funds to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days. One-third of people with individual health insurance coverage told the Fund their healthcare has become harder to afford over the past 12 months.

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Health Insurance Prescription Drug Pricing Medical Billing Hospitals 75

Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Here’s what it means. Connecticut is weighing several changes to Medicaid.

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