Health Populi
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Retail health-meets-Medicare. This work started in 2023 involving Walmart Health clinics serving Medicare members and looking to partner with UnitedHealth plan members and others.
care innovations
JANUARY 2, 2019
2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. January 18, 2018. June 21, 2018. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.
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Health Populi
JULY 26, 2022
Iora Health has focused on the Medicare-enrolled population, distinct from ONEM’s target patient market of younger, employed consumers. With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. The deal was announced on 21 July, with Amazon striking the price at about $3.9 bn and MGM Studios for $8.5
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%. Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. That’s one-half the high point at nearly 12% in 2007.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
And maintaining good mental health and staying on-track with health goals come close to managing uncovered costs, Oliver Wyman’s 2018 consumer survey learned. But this time around, polling health-insured consumers in July 2018, Oliver Wyman perceives a change in consumers’ “willingness to try new kinds of health services.”
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2018
The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others. We have reached a tipping point now that Medicare begins to pay for some virtual care services. But evidence is growing for telehealth and a more remote health monitoring tools, some undergoing scrutiny by the FDA.
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2019
Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade. “ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans.
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