Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

” That was written in the 2001-2010 period of healthcare spending, so an old story giving me feelings of déjà vu. 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. economy by 2026. Now, to Figure 4 (the third graphic).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal. health care system model.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

When VBC programs were expanded as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015, there was hope that the existing fee-for-service model would begin to decline.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010 Significant progress in saving $4.59B in estimated improper payments for the Medicare Fee-For-Service program.

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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The American Psychiatric Association has historically petitioned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to relax certain requirements around e-prescribing due to various challenges around its use. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) approved e-prescribing for controlled substances, such as the benzodiazepines, in 2010. .

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst , they initiated EPCS in 2010, partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Health. Kelly says that a federal bill in 2021 required EPCS for Medicare prescriptions. How do you transmit the prescription to the pharmacy and record it in the PDMP?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken a bold step by mandating a standard for prior authorization. The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything. The Dilemma of Prior Authorization Prior authorization, also known as a pre-approval, strikes fear into both patients and providers.

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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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Henry Kotula

MAY 16, 2021

MeMD, founded in 2010, provides primary care and mental health services to five million patients nationally.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Also in September, Medicare changes were introduced encouraging technology use by health providers, particularly telehealth services -- perhaps boosting the use of telehealth technology (for example remote visitations) which has seen a rise of consumer interest in recent polling , though not well-adopted yet by the majority of physicians.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 31, 2019

Medicare currently covers many telehealth services depending on coverage level and geography, but still faces some restrictions, with Medicare Advantage plan beneficiaries (about 14 million patients) receiving the broadest access ( ATA Telehealth Basics ). In a recent survey, 96% of U.S. In 2017, 76% of hospitals in the U.S.

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ACA Times

MARCH 15, 2017

The Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), released a notice at the close of February, announcing that insurance companies may extend coverage of certain non-grandfathered individual and group plans that are currently not ACA compliant for another year.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The financial in 2010 was estimated at estimated $263.8 The majority of those diagnosed are Medicare beneficiaries over 65 years old. CMS is in discussions with commercial insurers, Medicare Advantage plans, state programs, and managed care plans about adopting the model. Each year more than 1.6

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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? Grandmothered Plans.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2015

According to the NC Rural Health Research Program there have been 56 rural hospital closures since 2010. From difficulties implanting new HER systems to the re-evaluation of Medicare reimbursements, rural hospitals are looking for new ways to stay afloat. The struggle then becomes how they stay open amidst financial turmoil.

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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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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 22, 2018

For example, bills sponsored by members of caucuses in each chamber during the 114th Congress to mandate Medicare coverage for continuous glucose monitors were unsuccessful. Earlier this month the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance to Medicare Part D insurors to carry that into effect.

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Rural hospital closures disproportionately occurred in the South, among for-profit hospitals and among organizations with a Medicare-dependent hospital payment designation. Since 2010, 86 rural hospitals have closed , and 44% of those remaining are operating at a loss — up from 40% in 2017.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade. Previously, Medicare would only pay for real time telehealth visits conducted using both live voice and video.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 20, 2018

decrease in the number of hospital admissions and days of acute hospitalization from 2006-2010. . Medicare Telehealth Payment Eligibility Analyzer. For example, Medicare only reimburses for the time spent while the video is streaming. Telehealth patients saw a 26.6% Marketing Your Telehealth Service. 2012): 383-385. CPPM, MCGI.

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care innovations

JUNE 13, 2018

More than 70 rural hospitals have closed since 2010 , reports NPR , and experts are increasingly pointing to telehealth as a possible solution. A variety of high-profile telehealth-centered websites including Healthcare IT News and MobiHealthNews are also published under the HIMSS Media banner.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Fewer, but still about half, say it is “extremely” or “very” important for Congress to work on reforming the tax code, which may cut taxes for some individuals (49 percent), or work on continuing efforts to repeal and replace the 2010 healthcare law (47 percent). Is Congress up to the challenge?

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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. hours by 2010. at the end of 2014.

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LinkousThink

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The meeting will occur during the 2010 Summit of the American Telemedicine Association in Baltimore Maryland. Both Berwick and McClellan have talked frequently since Berwick’s appointment and both individuals support realigning quality and accountability in healthcare delivery. Such change is coming fast.

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CMS.gov

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

On December 19, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which was included as section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act of 2010.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 12, 2019

Beginning in 2010 just for behavioral and nutritional health, the program now serves over 40 specialties, has a 98% satisfaction rate, and has saved 1.5 Known as the “silver tsunami”, retiring baby boomers entering Medicare are predicted to swell and add additional healthcare needs to an already strained healthcare system.

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

For its part, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) is taking a step forward in supporting the wider use of telemedicine. “It’s been a long time coming, but this ruling making signals a clear and bold step in the right direction for Medicare,” Jonathan Linkous, CEO of ATA, said in a statement.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 30, 2017

For those not up on the lingo, “meaningful use” is the standard healthcare providers must meet to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid bonus payments for use of health information technology and/or avoid penalties for not being “meaningful” users of electronic health records.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Not included in these figures are the millions more covered by Medicare and Medicaid.). Premiums rose by more than 7% from 2007 to 2010, but the increase has held steady at a more moderate 4% since then. More broadly, the report notes that about 153 million working-age Americans now have employer-based health insurance.

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ACA Times

JUNE 27, 2018

Since its passage in 2010, the landscape of the healthcare industry and marketplace has changed in many ways. 2 minute read: It’s not a mystery that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is complex. A big piece of the ACA’s structural integrity relies on the expansion of Medicaid.

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LinkousThink

MARCH 10, 2010

Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) came out with an interpretation of how a hospital should provide quality assurance for physicians providing health care via telemedicine to a patient in the hospital. The deadline for implementing this new interpretation is July 15, 2010. Stay tuned.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

3 minute read: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a comprehensive healthcare reform law enacted under President Barack Obama in 2010. healthcare since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, with far-reaching implications for both individuals and employers.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 20, 2018

decrease in the number of hospital admissions and days of acute hospitalization from 2006-2010. . Medicare Telehealth Payment Eligibility Analyzer. For example, Medicare only reimburses for the time spent while the video is streaming. Telehealth patients saw a 26.6% Marketing Your Telehealth Service. 2012): 383-385. CPPM, MCGI.

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LinkousThink

APRIL 19, 2010

The National Broadband Plan, released by the Federal Communications Commission in March 2010 states: “State-by-state licensing requirements limit practitioners’ ability to treat patients across state lines. There has been talk by some parties that the same policy should be extended to physicians providing services to Medicare patients.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

B etween 2010 and 2017, the value of investments in digital health increased by 858 percent, and the number of financing deals in this sector increased by 412 percent; more than $41.5 billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Since Medicare coverage first took effect almost six decades ago, the program’s runaway spending has played a leading role in the story of the federal budget. An excellent piece in The New York Times highlighted how Medicare’s unsustainable climb reached a turning point in 2011, and for reasons that aren’t exactly clear.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

A payer such as Medicare could just put a card on its web site for each patient to download. Once you have a card, uploading a URL or QR code to a web site should take no more effort than typing in your Medicare number. is a greatly expanded version of the classic Blue Button created by the Department of Veteran Affairs in 2010.

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