AHIP's Eyles: Health policy priorities for insurers to watch in 2021
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 26, 2021
AHIP's Eyles: Health policy priorities for insurers to watch in 2021. Tue, 01/26/2021 - 13:43.
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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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy
Health Populi
JANUARY 27, 2021
President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger. ” The plotline goes….
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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021
Health Populi
JANUARY 8, 2021
At the start of the 2021 new year, one-half of U.S. consumers say the “important things in life today” are health and financial security, according to the latest study from the Retirement Security Survey conducted by Principal in Q4 2020. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
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3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 2, 2021
3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 13:58.
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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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023
Health Populi
JANUARY 2, 2023
dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy?
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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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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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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2021
2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!!
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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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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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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.
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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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens
Health Populi
JULY 5, 2023
Figure 6 from the King’s Fund report arrays health spending per capita data points from the OECD’s 2021 national survey, finding the UK (the red dot on the graph) to the left of the red average line on the x-axis for per capita spending and just north of the average line of spending as a share of GDP on the y-axis.
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The Trust Deficit Is Bad for Health: A Health/Care Lens on the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer
Health Populi
JANUARY 18, 2022
[Edelman usually releases a specific health industry deck some weeks after the initial Trust Barometer publication, which I will cover as soon as the data are available], Overall, peoples’ trust across the world in NGOs, business, government, and media, has stayed relatively flat over 2021 levels, the bar chart illustrates at the top-line.
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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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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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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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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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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’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care
Health Populi
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The pharmacy is all these things, and increasingly digital-first, we learn in The Rx Report: A new day in retail pharmacy , a consumer survey from CVS Health. CVS Health, one of the two largest pharmacies operating in the U.S. in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S.
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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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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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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
The first chart illustrates data on the impact of COVID-19 on behavioral health across different population groups. could have a behavioral health need in 2021. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Overall, 1 in 3 people in the U.S.
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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2022
” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.
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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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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2020
In 2021, all economies are expected to recover at some level, the brighter news in the third column in the last chart. “Flattening the spread of COVID-19 using lockdowns allows health systems to cope with the disease, which then permits a resumption of economic activity. .” will decline by -6.1%.
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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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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021
Health Populi
OCTOBER 26, 2021
“Americans remain in limbo between lives once lived and whatever the post-pandemic future holds,” the American Psychological Association observes in their latest read into S tress in America 2021, with this phase of the perennial study focused on Stress and Decision-Making During the Pandemic. adults 18 and over. out of 10.0.
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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 4, 2021
The following 10 predictions that we have made for the global healthcare will define new ways of rethinking business and growth opportunities in 2021, and will help determine the future direction of the industry. By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. billion by the end of 2021.
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The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State
Health Populi
JUNE 23, 2023
A critical insight that’s quite clear from this chart from the report is that deaths from preventable and treatable causes substantially rose especially in certain states between 2019 and 2021 in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence
Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2021
The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. In the U.S., Other people of color were much more likely to be at-risk for death due to COVID-19 than White Americans, except for Asian people who were on-par for death due to C19 with White people, the chart shows.
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Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
This year Genentech followed up the 2020 exploration of patients’ perspectives, adding in the health care provider/physician view on health equity. This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S. Key findings in this year’s 2021 study were that: Inequities within the U.S.
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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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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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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.
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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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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-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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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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A BA Degree as Prescription for a Longer Life – Update on Deaths of Despair from Deaton and Case
Health Populi
MARCH 16, 2021
Six years since that first study, Case and Deaton focus in on education in this 2021 article: specifically, the relationship between a person in the U.S. Civic Science’s poll conducted in early March 2021 found striking differences across U.S. have a 4-year BA degree and that individual’s life expectancy. Sound familiar?
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