Bill of Health
JANUARY 26, 2022
Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. Incarcerated individuals need health care more than ever in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected those within correctional facilities. 3514) are particularly critical.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 7, 2021
"Without action from Congress, millions of Americans who have come to rely on telehealth services will lose access to the care they value," said AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in a statement. Data continues to emerge about telehealth utilization rates amidst COVID-19. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 4, 2021
Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. And while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has moved to make some coverage permanent, Administrator Seema Verma said it would be up to U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.
Innovaare Compliance
JANUARY 19, 2021
It has become evident by changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Star Rating formulas over the past several years—and especially with changes implemented for the 2021 Plan Year—that member experience and medication adherence is of utmost importance to the CMS. Medicare Star Ratings 2021 Changes.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
It is hard to believe that these advances could disappear in the United States, particularly when COVID-19 variants still swarm over us. After decades of dragging their feet, providers implemented video visits and messaging applications overnight, and the public responded enthusiastically. Yet most of the […].
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
COVID-19 is not the first pandemic within prisons. Like these earlier carceral pandemics, the over 620,000 COVID-19 infections and 3,100 related deaths among incarcerated individuals to date simply expose how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody. By Andrea C.
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