Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

million commercially insured and Medicare Advantage enrollees from January through June 2020. When it comes to clinical specialties, the study found that before March 17, 2020, fewer than 2% of clinicians in each specialty delivered any outpatient care via telemedicine, with the exception of mental health clinicians.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Financial stress is a factor ranking high for people dealing with both mental health challenges and chronic health conditions. Our relationship with our self — “self-worth and purpose” — ranks high, too, for people dealing with a mental health condition. Looking under the 52% of U.S.

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Mental health Public Health Medicare Health Policy 186

Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

Chapter 7 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , is titled, “ZIP Codes, Genetic Codes, Food and Health.”

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Mental health Public Health Digital Health Nursing 312

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on health consumers’ spending varies depending on whether the household is generally a healthy family unit, healthy “enthusiasts,” dealing with a simple or more complex chronic conditions, or managing mental health issues. adults polled in early April 2020.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which surveyed state Medicaid officials across 44 states in the US, including the District of Columbia, revealed an increased interest in permanently adopting pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.

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Telehealth Mental health Medicare Health Policy 52

Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

That law, the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act, made it illegal for Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate drug prices with manufacturers —even for the individuals publicly insured through Medicare and Medicaid. healthcare over the past five years. The newest data show that suicides across the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. That’s Medicare, Australia-style, adopting telehealth in this coronavirus era.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 278

Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Released on Friday, the wonks at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) urged officials going into the long holiday weekend to remember amid the celebrations that we still don’t know the final toll of the pandemic, especially when it comes to long-term consequences for behavioral and mental health. Not Medicare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

To mitigate SDoH risks for older Americans, Medicare has begun to pay for services that promote coordinated care. .” Note the AARP banner logo at the bottom of the poster, lending a brand trust “halo” to the ad that could resonate with millions of older Americans who belong to the Association.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Hospitals will negotiate hard with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare Advantage plans to be paid on a per month basis to ensure there is a continuous revenue stream, moving away totally from a fee-for-service agreement. They will seek supplier agreements that are more long term with lower upfront investments.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Loneliness is increasingly recognized as an impactful influence on positive health outcomes, having found that social isolation can increase the risk of premature death by 50%. It’s actually decades…when we slow down to consider the years from 1967 to 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We founded Zócalo Health to embrace the values and traditions from our culture and Latino identity and make them the heart of the primary care experience. Prior to Amazon, she focused on developing innovative solutions for Medicare and Medicaid populations for companies such as Omada and Alere Health/Optum.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

Respondents were both uninsured and insured through individual coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual enrollees. McKinsey conducted the survey among over 12,500 U.S. adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018.

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Public Health Medicare Mental health Health Policy 253

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 25, 2022

This risk is due to: lack of access to the continuum of care, lack of available and affordable housing, cross-system fragmentation, youth being discharged to the streets from inpatient or residential treatment, inconsistent oversight of behavioral health policies. incentivizing cross-agency coordination.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Medicaid is the largest payer for mental health services in the United States. Virtual care can appeal to behavioral health patients who fear the perceived stigma of visiting a psychiatric facility. Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage. Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members).

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Medicare Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience 193

Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

For employers, per capita health spending on someone with a complex chronic illness is eight times that of a healthy person. Lastly, employers are beginning to recognize the importance of helping their employees manage their mental health and wellbeing.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

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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.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Professionals focused on expanding their telehealth services through Medicare will also be delighted to see the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). Key Medicare Behavioral Telehealth Regulations. The 12/22/22 Senate passage of the 1.7

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. where this research found Britons’ mental health improved through socializing via creative activities of all sorts.

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Public Health Mental health Medicare Primary Care 314

Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Two-thirds of Rx’s were dispensed to treat chronic conditions, notably hypertension, mental health, lipid management, diabetes, and anti-coagulants. In 2018, we saw more incentives to inspire adherence to prescription drug regimens, particularly in Medicare Part D along with increasing focus by pharmacists and providers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2022

On Tuesday November 8, 2022, health and medical issues will be on many U.S. Health policy experts from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, AARP, and the United States of Care recently shared perspectives on the health care issues on voters’ and policy makers’ minds for the 2022 midterm elections.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In second place in terms of total responses was the affordability of health care — a top-of-mind concern for U.S. The future of Medicare and Medicaid as well as access to mental health care also rank high among two-thirds of U.S. The post Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

[This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen ]. Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal.

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Mental health Medicare Pharmaceuticals Public Health 214

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

adults, followed by vision care for 25%, a doctor’s office visit among 24%, mental health services among 18%, and 14% of people avoiding hospital services. The issue of health care costs, and in particular out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, continues to be a priority for most U.S. One-half of people in the U.S.

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Medical Billing Mental health Medicare Patient Experience 182

Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

See this graphic from the Care on the Optum Store home page, and ask yourself: doesn’t this like like a Hims or Ro marketing message, pointing to birth control, erective dysfunction, mental health, and hair loss as health consumer-facing health issues for the targeted populations on which these companies focus?

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Sanders explained that the vast majority of people will pay significantly less for health care than they do right now. .

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Medicare Mental health Public Health Primary Care 175

Henry Kotula

JULY 31, 2019

Seven support Medicare for All. Unlike many of his Democratic rivals, Biden does not support full Medicare for All. Instead of getting rid of private insurance, Biden said he would build on the ACA through the Biden Plan to create a public health insurance option. ” Kamala Harris. ” Kamala Harris.

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