Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

In other words, both convicted individuals and those still presumed innocent are stripped of their access to the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Estelle v.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

health citizens are worried about unexpected medical bills (net 74%), the cost of health care services (net 74%), their prescription drug costs (net 55%) and their monthly health insurance premium (net 48%), shown in the second bar chart. .” More granularly, most U.S. — very personal.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 13, 2023

In a new case study, published in collaboration with the Milbank Memorial Fund, CHIR researchers detail stakeholder efforts to expand primary care access in Columbia County, Arkansas—a county classified as a primary care health professional shortage area.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 9, 2022

The authors evaluated stakeholder efforts to increase the number of primary clinicians, bring outpatient clinics to the community, make primary care affordable, and build relationships between providers and patients.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Considering these substantial consequences for patients’ access to mental health care, developing solutions to prevent ghost networks is critical. To remedy issues of data quality and integrity, insurers could use algorithms or AI to detect and remove ghost provider entries.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed by Congress in 1996, the establishment of federal standards for safeguarding PHI was not one of the primary objectives. What is HIPAA? What is HIPAA Title II?

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

Health care has increased its role in popular culture over the years. to paint the movement on outdoor walls to promote health citizenship and the importance of health care access and affordability for all people in America. Power to the Patients is motivating muralists around the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

The limiting factor — or wild card, as Kaufman Hall put it in their blog today — is whether the consumer-patient had health insurance. economy shed millions of jobs — many tied to health insurance coverage. With the great lockdown, the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Jane Sarashon

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Even those people who have health insurance in the U.S. avoid care due to cost. The latest Robert Wood Johnson biennial survey on the state of health insurance shows that over two in five working-age people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. One in two people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

People value preventive care, but if they have to cover these services out of their own pockets, the services compete with other household spending that, in the current economic climate, crowds out preventive care for many households. Post-Dobbs era of women’s health access challenges).

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the post- Dobbs fight to safeguard reproductive healthcare, a new spotlight has been placed on two existing federal laws: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). . By Katie Gu.

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 28, 2015

With all the new technologies, mobile medical applications, expansion of health care access under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the emphasis on quality of care, telemedicine is at the forefront of the health care industry.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 19, 2022

” Calling out the social determinant of health risk that transportation represents, Honey told KY3, “ Your health insurance doesn’t pay for your gas, and we know fuel prices are just getting more and more expensive,” Honey said. “So Sometimes those treatments are five days a week, so that really adds up.'”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

.” This study can (should) also inform tech developers’ and health care providers’ approaches to collaborating with patients and caregivers with respect to their personal health information and the digital tools the industry stakeholders want to put into health consumers’ hands.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

.” “This,” being the scenarios illustrated by people – health consumers, patients, caregivers, all hungry for health citizenship, illustrated here by their signs of SDoHs curated in this second slide from my PowerPoint deck.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 9, 2023

From a compliance perspective, this means supporting care teams based on the principles of social determinants of health (SDOH), such as understanding how to access affordable health insurance or obtaining transportation for follow-up appointments.

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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.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated many trends in and beyond health care. One is Americans’ growing understanding of health care as a civil right. The post The Unbearable Heaviness of Healthcare in America – the Change Healthcare/Harris Poll appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

The fourth chart details five core SDoH factors covered in the survey: financial and economic, housing, education, food quality and access (nutrition), and health care access and health literacy. The overwhelming majority of employers are already attending to financial wellness and health care access and literacy.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

1] In addition to the challenges presented by provider shortages, even when patients are able to locate an available mental health provider, many are hesitant to engage in treatment due to cost uncertainties, which often arise due to limited availability for in-network care and the subsequent need to seek out-of-network care. [2]

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

This speaks to the fact that in emerging countries, health citizens are often leap-frogging health access using digital health tools, compared with patients and consumers in wealthier nations which have capital-intensive, bricks-and-mortar built medical care infrastructures.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Cash-constraints vis-à-vis health care spending will also impact peoples’ political views on healthcare reform in the U.S. Watch for calls among younger voters to support, broadly writ, universal health care access.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

UCHealth sued patients nearly 16K times in last 5 years, investigation reveals Colorado Health Access Survey shows high costs are preventing residents from getting needed care NAMI’s newly renovated office will provide more mental health care access in southeast Colorado Springs Colorado Springs hospitals team up with FBI for bioterrorism drill (..)

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

CVS has been tracking the growing trend of health care consumerism in the U.S. since first launching this consumer market research in 2018 in the Health Ambitions Study conducted in concert with Aetna — the pharmacy chain’s newly-acquired health insurance company. Stress levels among U.S.

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2023

spoiler bid for home health care company Thousands of Minnesotans at risk of losing health insurance get a one-month reprieve MISSISSIPPI $5.3M for stroke and kidney treatment Optum wins $3.2B

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Hall Render

JULY 28, 2023

million for rural hospital expansion Hospices in Arizona & other states receive scrutiny over concerns of fraud, waste & abuse Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square Foot Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Firefighters oppose Banner’s planned $400M hospital There’s a growing nurse shortage in Arizona.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Health Care Entities Under SB 184, “health care entities”, which include (i) payers , (ii) providers and (iii) fully integrated delivery systems [2] , are potentially subject to OHCA’s CMIR authority.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

that’s the prime problem cited by 55% of Americans one year ago in an Ipsos survey, In the UK, the NHS is primarily funded through taxation of the people, ensuring and insuring every health citizen’s health care access. In the U.S.,

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Mary’s welcome new board members Northeast Georgia Health System named one of nation’s top workplaces for diversity HAWAII How Adventist Health Castle achieved becoming a verified Level III Trauma Center Queen’s debuts $4.5M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

New report brings grim statistic to Mississippi maternal health UMMC program provides mental health care for moms Faith, medical leaders to discuss expanding health care access at Gov.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

New report brings grim statistic to Mississippi maternal health UMMC program provides mental health care for moms Faith, medical leaders to discuss expanding health care access at Gov.

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Alameddin Named All of Us Arizona Health Champion for Her Work to Improve Health Care Accessibility, Equity. Arkansas health care group asks to intervene, says overturning lawsuit could lead to higher drug prices for patients. Ohio health system lowers hiring age to 16 to fill workforce gaps.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

take aim at implicit bias VAMC Expands Women’s Health Care Options Horizon Behavioral Health celebrates 55 years of service in Central Virginia Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center becomes a sensory-inclusive hospital WASHINGTON 3 physicians suing their former employers Boston company to buy Alpine Immune Sciences for $4.9B

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health. As health citizens, people in America would be covered by universal health insurance and more comprehensive data privacy protections.

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