Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

Health care costs continue to be a top issue on American voters’ minds in this 2020 Presidential election year, this survey confirms. Four in five U.S. adults say lowering the cost of health care in America should be high priority for the next American president, according to a poll from The Commonwealth Fund and NBC News.

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Medical Billing Medicare Health Policy 275

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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Pharmaceuticals Medical Billing Medicare Mental health 136

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. Sensor-based home monitoring was a 2007-ish innovation. The 2017 Harvard article indicates that 1 million had signed up for these home nurse visits – but there were 19 million people covered by Medicare Advantage plans in 2017.

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mHealth Connected Health Medicare Nursing 100

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills.

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Mental health Medical Billing Public Health Medicare 203

Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Over recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have created and amended codes allowing for remote patient monitoring (RPM) reimbursement. The CPT codes apply to both standard Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage programs. 2018 Home and Community Preferences: A National Survey of Adults Age 18-Plus.

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Telehealth EHR Medicare Nursing 52

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

According to the hospital’s most recent employee engagement survey, the hospital’s overall employee engagement score was 89 percent and its employee retention rate is 92.6 Beaumont surveys its employees consistently and has several channels for employees to share their opinions on the workplace.

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Leadership Nursing Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 32