ACA Times

MAY 1, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the period of non-enforcement for certain non-compliant health policies under the Affordable Care Act through the end of 2020. 2 minute read: The U.S. How do “grandmothered” plans differ from “grandfathered” plans?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I laud these programs initiated by private sector businesses and health care stakeholders. Health consumers absolutely want to engage across all industry segments for health, we learned from the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer back in 2010 (shown in the bar chart here taken from my book HealthConsuming ).

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E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL ; by Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis, January 20, 2010. The Platform ; by Adrian Gropper, MD, December 18, 2019. Healthcare in the National Privacy Law Debate; by Kirk Nahra — Coming Soon.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 29, 2017

The language policymakers use in telehealth legislation may deter provider networks from offering remote services and tying the hands of payers looking to broad service options, according to a the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP). Excepts from the full report continue below.

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Since 2010, 86 rural hospitals have closed , and 44% of those remaining are operating at a loss — up from 40% in 2017. CMS Administrator Seema Verma released a rural health strategy in May aimed at improving access and quality of care in rural communities.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2018

When so many patient organizations are being influenced in this way, it can shift our whole approach to health policy, taking away from the interests of patients and towards the interests of industry,” McCoy said. To learn how Kaiser Health News created the Pre$cription for Power database, read the full methodology, here.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

Key Challenges for Telehealth, RPM, and Other Digital Health Technology Before the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health solutions like telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) showed enormous promise but had a modest impact on the practice of healthcare in the United States. billion in 2018.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Venture capital businesses have recently funded hundreds of startups developing technology-enabled digital health products, including wearable devices, mobile health applications, telemedicine, and personalized medicine tools. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It took years to narrow the life expectancy gender gap: NCHS notes that in the decade between 2000 and 2010, the gap between the sexes declined from 5.2 For insights into that trend of growing male mortality, search for my posts on the Deaths of Despair here on Health Populi). The differences between males and females was 5.4

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. [link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 2023.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. The research found that peoples’ exposure to clinician quality information doubled between 2010 and 2015, and more consumers sought quality metrics — albeit, with differences across sub-groups of people (e.g.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

The Gallup Poll , fielded in the first week of March 2018, found that peoples’ overall economic and employment concerns are on the decline since 2010, at the height of the Great Recession which began in 2008. While 70% of Americans were worried about economic matters in 2010, only 34% of people in the U.S.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In addition, it was announced that Mr. Trump has chosen Seema Verma, a private health policy consultant who worked closely with the state of Indiana, to be the head administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Representative Price is an orthopedic surgeon who has long been a critic of the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2022

Nate Silver discussed the concept here in his 2010 FiveThirtyEight blog, noting that it’s more about turnout than “enthusiasm.” The “enthusiasm gap” has long been a factor driving some folks to vote, and others to stay home and avoid the polling booth.

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