Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Did you know that ‘social isolation’ has become a named baby boomer health condition spiking Medicare costs by an additional $134 per enrollee – tucked into the list that includes arthritis (+$117 of cost) and diabetes (+$270), source AARP? please note that the ineligible younger boomers are generally not costing Medicare any money.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. As with public sector healthcare spending (“entitlements” in the form of Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare spending crowds out U.S. economy by 2026.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

APRIL 23, 2019

The Medicare Board of Trustees released their annual report (249 page download) on the state and stability of the program and two main trust funds, the Hospital Insurance Trust fund and its Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Fund. According to the report, total costs for Medicare are expected to jump up from 3.7

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. Kelly says that a federal bill in 2021 required EPCS for Medicare prescriptions.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JANUARY 8, 2019

Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. Between 2008 and 2016, the cost of oral brand-name outpatient drugs rose 9.2 percent from 2008 to 2016. drug prices drug prices. percent, and injectable brand-name drug prices rose 15.1

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Medicare Certification ASCs must sign a contract with Medicare and meet its Conditions for Coverage (CFC) to be paid. ASCs must also meet Medicare’s Conditions for Coverage. Medicare Payment Resources CMS implemented an Ambulatory Payment Classification-based payment methodology in 2008.

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ACA Times

APRIL 7, 2015

Low-income Americans will have greater access to mental health and substance abuse treatments under a new rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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ACA Times

AUGUST 20, 2015

The studies were released by the Urban Institute in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; and Gallup, Inc. The Urban Institute study which asks “Has the ACA Been a Job Killer?”,

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The poll was conducted in mid-September, reaching 1,005 adults who said they were likely to vote in the 2016 elections and who voted in the 2012 or 2008 elections. Almost equal numbers supported giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices, with 88% expressing approval. The margin of error is about three percentage points.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In a 2008 article for the Journal of Diabetes Technology , Dr. Asamoah sees several advantages of the pen over the syringe, writing, “Compliance with treatment is better because a pen device is easier to carry around, easy to use, provides greater dose accuracy, and is more satisfactory to patients as compared with a syringe.”.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The federal government has pegged the cost of hospital readmissions for Medicare patients at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion accounting for readmissions that result in patients not receiving the right care. Readmission Reduction. In 2011, hospitals spent $41.3 billion to treat patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

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CMS.gov

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Want to know the percentage of people who have a Medicare Advantage plan compared to all people with Medicare in Maryland from 2007 to 2011? Or perhaps the top 10 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes for services provided in 2008?

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LinkousThink

JULY 10, 2010

Annual petitions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to expand covered clinical service codes have resulted in adding about 15 services as eligible for reimbursement. Two examples: Medicaid - In 2008, 71 percent of the 47 million Medicaid enrollees were in a managed care plan.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The federal government has pegged the cost of hospital readmissions for Medicare patients at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion accounting for readmissions that result in patients not receiving the right care. Readmission Reduction. In 2011, hospitals spent $41.3 billion to treat patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

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LinkousThink

AUGUST 24, 2009

Multiple payers - Back to the radiology example: that read can be billed through Medicare, Medicaid, a hundred different private payers, or inside a closed system such as the U.S. In 2008, the global videoconferencing market grew 24% to $2.4 Veterans Administration or another country's socialized health plan. billion industry in 2013.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In their latest look into consumers’ views on business in America, Gallup found that peoples’ ratings on business fell to their lowest ratings overall since 2008. Health Populi’s Hot Points : For some context, remember that 2008 was the advent of the Great Recession. have declined in the past year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. In the case of Medicare Part D, the drug benefit, Chandra said, “If you’re sick enough to fall into the donut hole, you may have higher mortality.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. Underneath this statistic, it’s important to compare the payor mix of patients delaying care: nearly one-third of people with private, commercial insurance delayed care by 2018; 22% of people enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare put off care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

For many years, mental health has lagged between physical health both in access to treatment and reimbursement – this is despite the mandates of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. CMS is the federal agency that administers HIPAA standards and develops Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement policies for telemedicine.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 30, 2022

Between January 2008 and June 6, 2009, Pennsylvania healthcare facilities registered 2,685 prescription errors concerning the use of insulin products to the Authority. Glucose control is critical in treating hyperglycemia in both diabetic and nondiabetic patients. An electronic medical record for data incorporation and remote transmission.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Medicare/Medicaid Management One other play that is harder to decipher starts with Amazon’s announcement in March to cut its prime membership for Medicaid recipients by over 50% and CNBC’s announcement that it’s been talking potential collaborations with AARP since 2015. But how easy will it actually be?

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

It echoes the scenarios that played out after the 2008 recession, when millions of Americans were unemployed and unable to afford even routine visits to the doctor for themselves or their children. A pharmacist helped, but Mr. Chapman no longer has insurance, and is not sure what he will do until he is eligible for Medicare later this year.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

My first inclination is to at least publish the Medicare price. The photo above is of his patients’ medical records that were stored in “an unsecured and dilapidated barn” where he tried to hide them from Medicare. I absolutely hate when non-clinical people compare healthcare with any other industry.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The updated ACO Reach payment model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth a value-based model of capitated payments to physicians who meet quality and spending targets – combined with a plan to deal with health equity.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

That was, in fact, the name of a research paper I wrote on behalf of the California Health Care Foundation in 2008. and Medicare enrollees with heart failure have the highest readmission rate of any condition. Please, Congress, Act to extend the Medicare telehealth flexibilities which are set to expire April 1, 2025.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. 57 A recent change in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that allows physician billing for time spent managing and interpreting data from remote monitoring (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

"Many areas we provide care to did not have much recovery since [the economic crash of] 2008," said Marshfield Clinic Health System CEO Dr. Susan Turney. " Healthcare leaders agreed that the relaxed telehealth regulations should be made permanent.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2019

The study analyzed medical claims for millions of patients, both commercially insured and enrolled in Medicare. In no state did the rate of diabetes decline in the ten years between 2008 and 2018. For families with a member with diabetes, the household economic burden was $3,150, or 5.1% of family income.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 28, 2020

Research from the University of Pittsburgh provided evidence that the net price of insulin in the United States had also soared – by 51% between 2008-2017. In March, the Trump Administration announced it was working to lower insulin prices for senior citizens on Medicare. government to put an end to this price gouging. .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

Politics underpin what’s happening in health plans in the public sector, and I spoke a bit about Medicare and Medicaid. This behavior drives trust, which we learned is the most important driver behind peoples’ engagement in health — a key finding in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer conducted in 2008.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

The bill did add critical access Hospitals (CAHs) and small, rutral hospitals with less than 50 beds to the list of sites eligible for reimbursement through Medicare for certain telehealth services, opening the door to the expansion of telehealth services in parts of the country where access is a challenge.

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ACA Times

DECEMBER 6, 2016

House Speaker at the time Newt Gingrich was far from silent in his displeasure for Medicare and that the concept of HSAs as not only helping healthcare providers, but monopolizing the market with boosted profits. As $37 million in service charges for Optum were reported in 2015 with $4.2

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