Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2021

consumers’ bipartisan support for drug price regulation through Medicare negotiation and private/commercial sector adoption. The post Aduhelm and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Potential Medicare Budget-Buster Puts A Blazing Light on Health Care Costs and Innovation appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. and beyond.

Medicare 62

Medicare Medicare FDA Bioethics 62

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Finally, check out Association of Race and Ethnicity and Medicare Program Type With Ambulatory Care Access and Quality Measures. This research looked at enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans compared with traditional Medicare.

COVID-19 133

COVID-19 Health Care Inequity COVID-19 Vaccine Medicare 133

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

And then I also think that Medicare Advantage has been very focused on figuring out how to provide better care for patients using the latitude that they have to partner with other organizations, whether it’s traditional delivery providers or new market entrants.

Nursing Homes 144

Nursing Homes Doctors Health Care Reform Nurses 144

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies]. Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S.

COVID-19 124

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense.

US Department of Health and Human Services 73

US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Electronic Medical Records Hospitals 73

Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2024

And, the waivers also allow physicians to bill Medicare regardless of where patients are located and prescribe medications with audio-only calls. The telemedicine extension is not just for psychedelics; easing these restrictions means relaxing them for other controlled substances as well.

FDA 111

FDA Telemedicine Public Health Doctors 111

Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

Leftist groups like the Democratic Socialists of America have not developed a pandemic response platform, and to the extent they have politicized the pandemic, it has been to talk about long-standing policy goals like Medicare For All.

Public Health 364

Public Health Hospitals Governance COVID-19 Vaccine 364