AHIP's Eyles: Health policy priorities for insurers to watch in 2021
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JANUARY 26, 2021
AHIP's Eyles: Health policy priorities for insurers to watch in 2021. Tue, 01/26/2021 - 13:43.
The Dems just flipped the Senate. Here are 3 health policies Biden could now get passed—and one he won't
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 6, 2021
Here are 3 health policies Biden could now get passed—and one he won't. Wed, 01/06/2021 - 16:37. The Dems just flipped the Senate.
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3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 13:58.
What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2022
Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way Americans currently pay for medicines. health citizens access to high-value and lifesaving meds. .
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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Mitchell is quoted in the story, New data says more communities built their own broadband because of COVID published in Motherboard on 10th September 2021, an important report written by Karl Bode. who have indeed built up local connections for residents — health citizens, all.
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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities
Health Populi
MARCH 4, 2021
In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S.
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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2020
KFF wonders about the continued availability of coverage for furloughed workers, laid-off workers electing COBRA health insurance continuation, and changes that could be made to employee benefit programs for mental and financial wellness — two toxic side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2021
And with patients’ collective exposure to and experience with virtual care in 2020, demand for these services is persisting in and beyond 2021. As TT notes, the rise in home-based care is a déjà vu back to health care delivered in the 19th and early 20th century before the hospital-industrial complex as we know it existed.
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Support for Drug Price Negotiation Brings Partisans Together in the U.S.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2021
adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. The actual dollar costs grew from 1,102 in January 2000 to $4,097 in July 2021, according to this source.
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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.
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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up
Health Populi
AUGUST 13, 2021
health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S., The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world.
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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures
Health Populi
JUNE 29, 2022
The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. In the report’s section on “Retirement Savings, Planning, and Preparation,” we learn that the median household retirement savings across all workers was $54.000 as of late 2021.
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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind
Health Populi
JUNE 16, 2022
Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.
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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!
Health Populi
APRIL 28, 2021
Health care price transparency is not only in the movies… it’s real, legislated in the law as of January 1 2021 , and now Hollywood is on the case in real life…not just in the movies. You can follow #PowerToThePatients on Instagram and @PowertoPatnts on Twitter. Here’s the ad you can watch for yourself.
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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 31, 2022
House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Surescripts also reported a 24% increase in the number of prescribers enrolled in May 2022 compared to May 2021.
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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25
Health Populi
MARCH 3, 2025
Five years later in 2021, three physicians from UCSF wrote about the importance of focusing on digital health equity, one slide of the health equity challenge, in JAMA — calling out the fact that, “health care is on the cusp of a digital transformation that could harm health equity or improve it.”
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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer
Health Populi
APRIL 25, 2023
in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category.
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Australian Health Dep't failed to manage risks in expanding telehealth: state auditor
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 30, 2023
WHY IT MATTERS ANAO conducted the audit to provide "assurance" over the rapid implementation of health policy changes and the transition from emergency to permanent settings. "Rapid implementation of policy changes can increase risks to [the] effective and efficient delivery of public services," it explained.
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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities
Health Populi
MARCH 4, 2021
In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S.
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Being Transparent About Healthcare Transparency – My Post on the Medecision Blog
Health Populi
DECEMBER 4, 2019
With new rules emanating from the White House this month focusing on health care price transparency, health care costs are in the spotlight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Covered California report: Some states face 'catastrophic' premium hikes over next several years
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
Every state faces steep individual marketplace premium increases in 2019 and beyond, due at least in part to ongoing uncertainty about health policy on the federal level. Covered California estimates that 17 states face "catastrophic" increases of up to 90% or more between 2019 and 2021.
Billing Medicare and Private Payers for Telehealth Visits: What to Expect Post-Public Health Emergency
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth.
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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report
Health Populi
JUNE 20, 2022
in 2021, 58% of debts in collections were for a medical bill, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (almost 4x as many debts as telecomm bills, #2 in the list of most prevalent forms of debt in the U.S.). Here’s an additional detail showing the mainstream, Main Street nature of medical debt in the U.S.:
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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022
Health Populi
APRIL 28, 2022
physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S.
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Health Populi
JANUARY 29, 2019
paid for prescription drugs in 2018, with roughly four times the number of health citizens. The rate of growth of Rx spending looks fairly flat from 2019 to 2023, the second bar chart illustrates, with net growth of spending just over 4% by 2021-2023. China will have spent just over one-fourth of what the U.S.
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Channeling Tip O’Neill: “All Public Health (Love) is Local,” U.S. Health Citizens Tell the de Beaumont Foundation
Health Populi
AUGUST 28, 2023
.” A big part of learning about public health and its local value was peoples’ growing understanding of the social determinants, or drivers, of health that shape medical outcomes and residents’ well-being in their communities.
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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds
Health Populi
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.
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How a medical university's Telehealth Service Implementation Model can help you
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
In 2021, Wellpath leveraged TSIM, the Telehealth Service Implementation Model that was developed at the Medical University of South Carolina's Center for Telehealth, an HRSA-designated National Telehealth Center of Excellence. With nearly 15,000 clinicians and professionals in 34 states across the U.S.
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A Call to Embrace Civic Engagement (Including Voting Access) as a Driver of Health
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
It is important to note that some of these structural barriers are parallel to some peoples’ lack of access to health insurance. The researchers examined data for 242,727 adults in the 50 states and Washington, DC, quantifying access to voting and various demographic characteristics — including the odds of being uninsured.
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Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2022
Stress plays a big role in this year’s study, after consumers have dealt with the coronavirus public health crisis, followed in Year 3 by historic inflation (especially for food) exacerbated by the Ukraine conflict and supply chain challenges.
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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA
Health Populi
MAY 25, 2021
health citizens. Some national health plans have already looked to acquire telehealth companies and embed virtual care into their models. Look, too, to the upcoming annual 2021 ATA Conference and Expo that will bring current and futures thinking to attendees every week in June.
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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns
Health Populi
APRIL 4, 2022
As the chart shows, this accelerated in the third quarter of 2021 when the overall U.S. .” Most surprising to Elevate was the ten-percentage point growth in the number of non-prime households feeling “a lot of strain” due to healthcare costs for both insurance and out-of-pocket spending. economy improved.
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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group
Health Populi
MARCH 3, 2021
On the upside for the sector’s risk exposure, health care companies tend to work on public health-good, playing what S&P termed “a crucial role for the communities they serve.”
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Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020
Health Populi
JUNE 16, 2020
In fact, health care is tightly integrated into our household economies and so in the pandemic, the economy, uncertainty about the duration of COVID-19, and public are Americans’ top three concerns for their nation. The recession of 2020 (which may last into 2021) was quickly ushered in due to the lockdown of the U.S.
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Our Mental and Emotional Health Are Interwoven With What We Eat and Drink – Chewing On the IFIC 2023 Food and Health Survey
Health Populi
MAY 24, 2023
One-half of consumers were following a specific eating pattern or diet in the 2023, about the same percentage of people as in 2022 and significantly more consumers than the 39% following a diet in 2021.
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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Their ability to recover in 2021 and 2022 as the national economy heals and again grows will be a crucial time period to strategic plan and executive for a future that is not defined by a traditional inpatient bed.
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How To Become a Telehealth Provider
GlobalMed
MARCH 30, 2021
Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail. How To Become a Telehealth Provider was first posted on March 30, 2021 at 9:38 am. Contact Us.
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How Trust and Geopolitics Will Impact Health and Business – Edelman 2022 Trust Barometer at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Health Populi
MAY 23, 2022
“In September 2021, we started to notice all over the world that food prices started to go up due to energy going up too…the fertilizer prices were going up and then alarm bells were ringing,” for him and his colleagues in and beyond WHO.
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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index
Health Populi
JULY 14, 2022
People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. basis, moving from the 2020 grey dot to the green 2021 score. states since 2008. points, versus 17.0
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Humana Foundation Invests in Innovative Mental Health and Nutrition Programming for Seniors and School-Aged Children
Digital Health Global
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
and is focused on health equity, working to eliminate unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and healthcare.
Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?
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. National Academies Press (US), 2009. Sherman, Justin.
Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JUNE 30, 2023
Health informatics research contributes to advancements in healthcare practices, treatment modalities, and public health policies. 2021, January 15). Health Information Technology (Health IT) HealthIT.gov. What is Health IT? What is Health Informatics? What is Biomedical Informatics?
Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021
Health Populi
JANUARY 18, 2021
CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.
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By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Zócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Zócalo Health is available to individuals living in California. In August 2021, he founded Zócalo Health to deliver a first-class family medicine experience for the Latino community. Before founding Zócalo Health, he served as a founding team member and senior leader at Amazon Care where he led several technical teams.
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