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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Healthcare Access and Cost Top Americans’ Concerns in Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

The Gallup Poll , fielded in the first week of March 2018, found that peoples’ overall economic and employment concerns are on the decline since 2010, at the height of the Great Recession which began in 2008. While 70% of Americans were worried about economic matters in 2010, only 34% of people in the U.S.

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Rural hospitals need more than telehealth to survive the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Since January 2010, 126 rural hospitals have shut down, with nearly 600 more on the brink of closing. This directly affects the provision of services to a population that tends to be older, sicker, and less insured than the general public.

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

According to Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst , they initiated EPCS in 2010, partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Health. Kelly says that a federal bill in 2021 required EPCS for Medicare prescriptions. How do you transmit the prescription to the pharmacy and record it in the PDMP?

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

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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Spending on Medicines In and Post-COVID Say a Lot About Patients and Larger Healthcare Trends – an IQVIA Update

Health Populi

In the ten developed countries in the IQVIA Institute forecast, oncology has the greatest burden of disease, spending for which increased at a rate of 14% annually looking back to 2010 to 2019. Going forward 2021 to 2025, shown here, we can expect oncology to grow by between 9% and 12% globally.

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When is E-prescribing Mandatory for Psychiatrists?

TheraNest

The American Psychiatric Association has historically petitioned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to relax certain requirements around e-prescribing due to various challenges around its use. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) approved e-prescribing for controlled substances, such as the benzodiazepines, in 2010. .

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