Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

However, as patients continue to be concerned about exposure to COVID-19, 3 in 5 are concerned about being at-risk to the virus in their doctor’s office, according to research from the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and AMCP , the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

AUGUST 28, 2023

A massive coverage transition is underway for millions of people who have relied on Medicaid throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. After a three-year pause, states have begun disenrolling residents from Medicaid, leaving millions of people in need of new coverage.

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Compliance Now

AUGUST 10, 2023

As background, according to federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules, individuals have 60 days from losing CHIP and Medicaid eligibility to elect coverage under their group plan. The real potential of this number growing daily is what has prompted the Agencies to issue this “request.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. Part 2 will cover the impact of COVID-19 on physician well-being, and Part 3, on the impact of the coronavirus on the health care system.

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After multiple extensions over the past three years, on Monday, January 30, 2023, President Biden announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (“ PHE ”) will officially end on May 11, 2023.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. privately-insured people.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Contrary to perception, access to broadband and mobile phones are not the greatest barrier to digital health among Medicaid recipients. They access the internet at the same rates as other insured populations , and in many ways are more engaged with their smartphones because they are disproportionately dependent on them.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 24, 2022

CHIR and our colleagues at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) have published two new resources examining state-level preparations for the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and the redetermination of the Medicaid eligibility of close to 85 million people.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

OSHA , which limited federal authority to regulate worker safety with COVID-19 vaccination requirements. The “major questions doctrine” popped up throughout recent public health decisions and became formally recognized in Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in West Virginia v.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has completely transformed the World Order and exposed striking realities of the global healthcare infrastructure by revealing the tendencies of various countries to deal with public healthcare emergencies. The pandemic also revealed that the United States has failed to draft efficient health insurance policies.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Director of Healthcare Strategy, LexisNexis Risk Solutions During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, over 10 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid – nearly a 14% increase from the beginning of 2020. A month before the public health emergency ended on May 11, 2023, 87 million individuals were enrolled in Medicaid.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2020

” As health insurance for working-age people is tied to employment, COVID-19 led to disproportionate loss of health plan coverage especially among people earning lower incomes, as well as non-white workers, explained in the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Poll: COVID-19, May-June 2020.

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Kaiser Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

President Joe Biden’s top health advisers credited the increased government subsidies, which lowered out-of-pocket costs, for the surge in enrollment. They also said enhanced personal assistance and outreach helped connect more people to health insurance plans. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For the latest installment of our monthly research roundup, we reviewed studies on consumer awareness of Medicaid renewals resuming when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) expires, integrating health equity into value-based payment models, and trends in hospital consolidation across health care markets.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That approach successfully transformed public and private health care — albeit not without challenges for coordination and political resistance — through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This was accomplished by the U.S. Supreme Court also ended this order.

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Kaiser Permanente

JANUARY 1, 2022

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have served as critical supports to children, pregnant women, parents, seniors, and individuals with disabilities – covering 80 million individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. million individuals (a 13.9 percent increase).

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

it’s clear that COVID-19 has wreaked a greater mortality and morbidity impact on people of color than on white adults. A new Gallup-West Health poll found that the coronavirus also concerns more non-white Americans than whites when it comes to the cost of health care and medicines to deal with the effects of COVID-19.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 24, 2020

The telehealth vendor's deal with the state comes shortly after another agreement that provided the services to Medicaid, children's health insurance members.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act seeks to expand care options that can help improve health outcomes and quality of life for those facing barriers to healthcare. The act would also define "prescription digital therapeutic" in Medicaid and allow U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and funds the federal government through September 30, 2023, provides additional assistance to Ukraine, and makes numerous health care policy changes. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 7, 2022

As we approach the end of the public health emergency, Medicaid will not be the only program affected by pandemic relief policies that expire. Continue reading → The post The Expiration of the Public Health Emergency Also Ends Policies to Lower Health Access Barriers appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, millions of people will lose Medicaid as states resume eligibility determinations. CHIR took a look at a recent state task force report recommending a BHP in Oregon to serve as a “bridge program.”

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has also taught clinicians and health care administrators about the value of data at the ready.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 29, 2022

As many as 16 million people are expected to lose Medicaid once the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. Continue reading → The post Mitigating Coverage Loss When the Public Health Emergency Ends: The Role of the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. The new Medicaid drug program debuted this January, with a private company in charge. Centene was already a big player in state Medicaid drug programs — but one with a questionable record. SACRAMENTO, Calif.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

To mitigate coverage gaps, the Proposed Rule would add a special enrollment period for individuals who are expected to lose Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

A cohort study of more than 36 million people in the United States found a dramatic increase in telehealth use during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. By undertaking this study, we sought to gain an understanding of the patterns of virtual care during this initial phase of the COVID-19 era," wrote the researchers.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. Patients in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to states about how to increase access to telehealth under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Existing strategies states can use to integrate telehealth and other virtual health care services into value-based health care models.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this auspicious year for women’s voting rights, as COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. Women were surveyed on perspectives for health care in America in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the prospects for the Affordable Care Act and health insurance security, and views on health, well-being, and health care.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sweeping healthcare policy changes that enable vulnerable Americans to receive affordable health coverage and access essential safety net benefits. Under the PHE, states must keep Medicaid enrollees continuously covered, irrespective of their circumstances. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

A critical insight that’s quite clear from this chart from the report is that deaths from preventable and treatable causes substantially rose especially in certain states between 2019 and 2021 in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. And, a major input into access and affordability is having health insurance coverage.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Front and center will be homelessness and health care, top priorities for voters — and issues that have largely defined the governors’ policies and leadership styles. From abortion to covid-19 vaccines, Newsom and DeSantis could not be further apart.

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