Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2024

A Congressional bill would promote behavioral therapy for obesity and extend Medicare coverage for drugs treating obesity. It comes from a convergence of several trends, according to leading public health and medical investigators. Payers have invested enormous amounts of money in decreasing individuals’ body weights.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

A Surge in Virtual Health Overnight, the pandemic exposed shortcomings in the healthcare system, leading to widespread adoption of virtual care services by patients and clinicians. Clinicians can manage appointments, write prescriptions, chart notes and handle booking and payments all in one place.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

Respondents were both uninsured and insured through individual coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual enrollees. million members and the 68 million people in the communities Kaiser Permanente serves… within a robust network of nonprofit, public, and private resources… This is one of our bold moves,” CEO Bernard Tyson is quoted.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

By aggregating and standardizing data from a wide array of sources – claims, electronic health records , demographics, and more – healthcare data ecosystems deliver the ability to accelerate innovation in medical research, drug development, and public health. The broader context of healthcare data ecosystems.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. I share that vision with Deloitte, explained in my book, Health Citizenship — where we envision people “owning and not renting” their health and health care.

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Jane Sarashon

JUNE 10, 2024

I’ll be leading 2 panels covering the huge and growing challenge of trust in health care, and then the future of the health consumer looking to 2030, as well as doing a book signing for my look at HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , addressing growing consumerization in health care.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services, who outlined the ways HHS is tailoring its approach to better serve consumers with increased cross-departmental and interdepartmental cooperation. How are we thinking about the way Medicare and Social Security work together?" " And it's not just within HHS. " asked Palm.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Through working on population health and finding what does and doesn’t work, public health initiatives have evolved. Mary Sirois, Managing Director, Performance Improvement Advisory Practice at Nordic Data and evidence help us uncover larger population health issues and understand trends of potential future issues.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

.” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. That’s endnote #399 in the back of the book, one of 519 notes I use to support the plotline). To introduce the ideas in each chapter of the book, I ask big hairy “What If?”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the nation’s search for spending smarter on health care, the U.S. Over the past year, many stakeholders have come together to develop creative solutions to address food security for all — as a driver of health, productivity, and sustainability for the U.S. health care system.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. Loneliness is increasingly recognized as an impactful influence on positive health outcomes, having found that social isolation can increase the risk of premature death by 50%.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation). Quitting smoking.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

These projections are based on “current law,” the team from the CMS Office of the Actuary write, “developed using actuarial and econometric modeling methods in addition to judgments about future trends that affect the health care sector.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America. Large organizations, including non-profit health systems, may strategically divest unprofitable assets to bolster margins. payers, health systems, etc.).

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2023

Jake Sattelmair, EVP and GM at Wellframe Health plans have an incredible opportunity to make a positive impact on the health and well-being of Medicare beneficiaries. One way health plans can ensure they’re providing the best possible care to members is to focus on improving CMS Star Ratings.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

To get to more blue, there are several performance indicators that must improve that would yield quantifiable benefits to the nation’s public health and individuals’ personal health. 1 million fewer Medicare enrollees would receive a high-risk prescription drug.

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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.

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Bill of Health

JULY 8, 2022

Professor Bickel elaborates upon this formulation in his 1962 book on constitutional law and the Supreme Court, The Least Dangerous Branch , and in his preceding Harvard Law Review Foreword. This opinion, the first time in over a decade that the court has reviewed a firearm case, will have telling consequences for public health and safety.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize. Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says. Medicare fraud.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Calls for universal health care, some under the banner of Medicare for All,” are growing among some policy makers and presidential candidates looking to run in 2020. asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to develop a report outlining definitions and concepts for a single-payer health care system in the U.S. Congress, Rep.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 6, 2025

I’ll review these studies in this post, and discuss several potential impacts we should keep in mind for peoples’ health and care in 2025 and beyond. You’ll read updates from Ipsos, West Health-Gallup, the University of Michigan, and finally the wonky (but very informative) Fed Beige Book from the Federal Reserve.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 9, 2024

Can the ‘lifeline’ program save rural health care? Many in Central Jersey get low federal rating Orthopedic surgeon demands $6M from Summit Health Physician owner and eye practice chain to pay $460K to settle false claims allegations New Jersey-based CHA Partners wants to buy Crozer Mark Cuban-backed startup coming to N.J.

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Hall Render

JUNE 7, 2024

facility Southern Research CEO talks biotech incubator, future of Birmingham medicine ALASKA Juneau’s hospital is bleeding cash. million bird flu shots to U.S. million bird flu shots to U.S.

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Hall Render

MARCH 31, 2023

County-owned buildings facing potential earthquake risk Gilead drops option to buy cancer therapeutics company Health and Life Organization Inc. in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? buys industrial property in Rancho Cordova for $5.12

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. In 2019, there was a major sentinel event for public health made by a huge private sector force in America: Walmart.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

How 5 health systems are spending their innovation investment dollars. The 55 hospitals penalized by Medicare 8 years straight over patient complications. U of California, Irvine to Launch Institute for Precision Health. Pandemic’s mental health crisis shows California needs to reinvent health care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 1971, Céline published his book, Death on the Installment Plan ; one wonders what Louis-Ferdinand would have thought about this medical billing model. Only further global debate, innovation, and evaluation can determine how the private sector can best improve public well-being and offer new directions for the future of population health.”.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The authors assert that, “individuals and communities have a negative right to not have their space impinged upon by government-facilitated action or development that adversely affects their health.” The graphic on SDoH comes out of my book, HealthConsuming – the morphing on health consumers to health citizens).

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Hall Render

MARCH 18, 2022

Socially Determined unveils metric measuring impact of social connectedness on health outcomes, business performance. The status of Public Health Emergency declarations. Jeff Zients stepping down as White House covid coordinator; Biden names public health expert Ashish Jha as replacement. What’s in the $1.5

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Hall Render

AUGUST 23, 2024

renovation Maryland nursing home under historic oversight after state investigation This MD Hospital Listed Among Americas Greatest In New List Black-owned Laurel radiology practice sues UM Medical System alleging unfair bidding practices MASSACHUSETTS A closer look at the health systems trying to buy Steward’s Mass. 1 in Indiana, No.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 26, 2024

renovation Maryland nursing home under historic oversight after state investigation This MD Hospital Listed Among Americas Greatest In New List Black-owned Laurel radiology practice sues UM Medical System alleging unfair bidding practices MASSACHUSETTS A closer look at the health systems trying to buy Steward’s Mass. 1 in Indiana, No.

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

billion behavioral health contract to Centene Idaho Drops Panel Investigating Pregnancy-Related Deaths as US Maternal Mortality Surges Kootenai Health CEO to retire after nonprofit conversion Kootenai Health on track for nonprofit conversion Ammon Bundy a no-show for beginning of St. How did we get here?

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