Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

mid-terms elections in the first week of November, 2018. Underneath this statistic, it’s important to compare the payor mix of patients delaying care: nearly one-third of people with private, commercial insurance delayed care by 2018; 22% of people enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare put off care.

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Primary Care Medicare Telehealth Health Policy 211

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

of health spending per person. Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers. That equates to 18.4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and $12,230.40

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Rural hospital closures disproportionately occurred in the South, among for-profit hospitals and among organizations with a Medicare-dependent hospital payment designation. According to GAO, just 17% of rural hospital closures occurred in states that had expanded Medicaid as of April 2018. One potential lifeline was Medicaid expansion.

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Medicare Primary Care Telemedicine Health Policy 32

Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

In our review of 2018 Uniform Data System data—the most recent available—from a 100 percent sample of US CHCs, we found that our nation’s health centers are largely unprepared for this transformation. Across the US, 56 percent of 1,330 CHCs did not have any telehealth use in 2018 ( exhibit 1 ).

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Among the most well-known is Omada Health , which provides proprietary online coaching programs and other digital tools to help prevent diabetes and other chronic diseases. Another segment of startups focus on a separate driver of health care costs—the prices of medical services. Outlook For The Future .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES. Philips is a major player in the sleep health market, and at CES 2021 launched the Face Mask Selector with based on 3D facial screening. Sleep-as-medicine for all ages.

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Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 182

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. CVS building out an SDOH platform , collaborating with Unite US for the effort.

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