Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I leave time in my frenetic schedule at CES for serendipity to kick in. Every year, keeping eyes and ears wide open, I spot something adjacent or somehow influential on health or well-being. My favorite example of this discovery happened at CES in 2015: that would make it a decade ago.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

And it’s in personal health information: a medical record is valued 8 to 10 times the price of a credit card on the black market. Accenture studied the impact of medical and personal information theft, estimating an impact on one in 13 patients between 2015 and 2019.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

health ecosystem, cost/price of health care underpins how, when and where people seek care. FAIR Health’s paper on A Multilayered Analysis of Telehealth published in July 2019 found that telehealth usage has substantially grown since 2015 as more states implement laws for coverage.

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

Average annual spending for a healthy worker ran $1,320 between 2013 and 2015. Employers’ healthcare spending on individuals with chronic diseases is nearly four-times that for healthy workers, shown in the second graphic from the report. A person with a chronic condition cost 3.5 times that, nearly $5,000.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 2,390,097 people participated in Medicare within the South Central Telehealth region in 2015. Fact Sheet (Center for Connected Health Policy). Remote Patient Monitoring for Dialysis. The Henry J. Of this number, approximately 31% or 740,930 people were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated and are keen on closing the gap.

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ACA Times

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Federal regulators have issued regulations that propose changes to the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) that would be effective for plans beginning on or after September 1, 2015. Under the proposed revisions, a typical SBC would be about two and a half pages, compared to four pages now.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2018

The database, called “ Pre$cription for Power ,” shows that donations to patient advocacy groups tallied for 2015 — the most recent full year in which documents required by the Internal Revenue Service were available — dwarfed the total amount the companies spent on federal lobbying. In 2015, it spent more than $20.5

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

The Mental Health Policy Gap Excavated by Data Brokers The COVID-related surge in mental health disorders and the limitations on accessing in-person therapy Ignited a rapid shift towards telehealth and mHealth apps, where downloads increased by 200% between 2019 and 2020. BMC Medicine (September 7, 2015): 214.

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care innovations

APRIL 25, 2018

million in telehealth claims per year “did not meet Medicare requirements,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has thrust new light upon America’s byzantine telemedicine reimbursement policies and the limitations they place on the expansion of value-based care.

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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. billion were assessed to employers for failing to comply with the ACA in the 2015 tax year.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 18, 2016

Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey of employer health benefits found that there has been an upturn in the use of high-deductible health plans. Sood is director of research at the Leonard D.

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ACA Times

MAY 8, 2016

Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey of employer health benefits found that there has been an upturn in the use of high-deductible health plans. Sood is director of research at the Leonard D.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Senate from nearly 100 health economists and policy analysts supports keeping the tax in place. For decades, economists and health policy experts of all political persuasions have agreed that the unlimited exclusion of employer-financed health insurance from income and payroll taxes is inflationary, inefficient, and regressive.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 29, 2018

All study participants called the Community Assistance Line between January 1, 2015 and March 1, 2016 and identified at least one unmet social need and received at least one referral to a social service organization. ” Study Details.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 27, 2018

Developing a precision-medicine-ready system using cancer as a starting point can inform health policies, data systems, laboratory networks, and diagnostic capacity growth while stemming rising mortality rates. Furthermore, these developments will also support diagnosing and treating other diseases.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In fact, a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 35% of MA enrollees were in narrow-network plans in 2015, while only 22% were in broad-network plans. Deductibles went from accounting for less than 25% of cost-sharing payments in 2005 to almost half in 2015.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 16, 2018

AI company began its push into digital healthcare services in 2015, quietly signing an information-sharing arrangement with a London-based NHS Trust that gave it access to around 1.6 We are also continuing to build our Verifiable Data Audit and other tools to clearly show how we’re using data.” The Google-owned U.K.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 30, 2019

In fact, nearly half of them do not have a personal relationship with their physician, according to a 2015 report by Salesforce. This generation doesn’t value physician-patient relationships as highly as previous generations. Patient navigator solutions and other engagement tools will be critical to an organization’s success.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2020

due to suicide, accidents and drug overdoses first observed by Case and Deaton in a seminal 2015 paper, “Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century.” Deaths of despair are the rising mortality rates in the U.S. “H”ispanics.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

Angus Deaton and Anne Case published their first of many research papers on Deaths of Despair in 2015. The phenomenon of Deaths of Despair is the short-hand name for rising mortality among certainly people living in the U.S. due to overdose, accidents, and suicide.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2019

On the upside, black-white disparities trended downward a bit for both days and health. Health justice decreased over the 25 years for healthy days, slightly improved between 2012 and 2015, then declined again by 2017. The health justice trend was overall downward.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Over its first 20 years, Cochrane has grown from an initial group of 77 people from nine countries who met at the first Cochrane Colloquium in Oxford in 1993 to over 31,000 contributors from more than 120 countries in 2015, making it the largest organization involved in this kind of work (Allen 2006; Allen 2007; Allen 2011).

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 14, 2023

But five states are currently considering laws to curb facility fees for certain services or strengthen existing laws, per the National Academy for State Health Policy , which has proposed model legislation. Connecticut is updating a 2015 law that required notifications when facility fees were being charged by hospitals.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ironically, more social spending by the public sector could help address health outcomes for people, something for which we’ve had evidence for many years. This Health Affairs research published in 2015 made it clear that State spending on social health services builds citizens’ health beyond medical services.

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2018

health system performance, and one is with breast cancer and prostate cancer mortality. The red-boxed area of this appendix from the Fund’s report compares American’s five-year survival rates for breast cancer and colon cancer (based on OECD 2015 data). There are a few bright spots in U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

When he led Turing Pharmaceuticals in 2015, he acquired a license for the drug Daraprim (an anti-malarial therapy also used for HIV/AIDS), raising the drug price from $13.50 A quick sidebar for context: The Awards are named for Martin Shkreli, the so-called “Pharma Bro” who managed hedge funds and pharma companies.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

Kesselheim, are affiliated with the London School of Economics and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, note that 1% of medicines dispensed under Medicare Part D and Medicaid accounted for nearly $1 in $3 of drug spending in each program in 2015. bn between 2019 and 2015 (Part D) and from $4.8 bn to $32.8 bn to $9.9

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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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ACA Times

DECEMBER 28, 2015

One example cited in his article was the vote in early December of 2015 by Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota in favor of repealing key parts of the health care law and the expansion of Medicaid. Alker told the newspaper. A conservative strategist explained the divide among Republicans differently. Despite Sen.

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ACA Times

JULY 11, 2018

Sabrina Corlette, Research Professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute, commented in The New York Times , “The premium tax credits have made the market extremely resilient.”.

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ACA Times

AUGUST 24, 2017

Among those Americans is a bipartisan group of liberal and conservative leaders in health policy are supporting the continued payment of all the federal subsidies provided under the ACA and to help Americans enroll in coverage. President Trump recently authorized the U.S.

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ACA Times

JUNE 18, 2018

And as Sabrina Corlette, a professor and project director at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, told Kaiser Health News : “I don’t know that anyone at the Department of Agriculture, with all due respect, knows a darn thing about starting and maintaining a successful insurance company.”.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2021

Methodology-wise, the June 2015 KFF Poll analyzed opinions of 1,526 adults 18 and over living in the U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The last chart from the study (Figure 8) underscores the universality of the finding that lowering the price of prescription drugs is one of the very few issues in the U.S. 57% of Republicans.

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