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

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

adults age 18 and over in June 2019. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The 2019 Stress in America survey published this week from the American Psychological Association found that 7 in 10 Americans find that the issues of mass shootings and health care are significant sources of stress. Medicare, Medicaid).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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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 News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. How to navigate a new policy landscape. Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected.

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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. Medicare and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Reimbursement. Effective January 1, 2018, Medicare began reimbursing providers for RPM services billed under CPT code 99091. Click here to read specific information on the Medicare website.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’d been trying to schedule meeting up to do a live podcast since February, and we finally got our mutual acts together on 6th August 2019. Marc Iskowitz, Executive Editor of MM&M, warmly welcomed me to the Haymarket Media soundproof studio in New York City yesterday.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

Respondents were both uninsured and insured through individual coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual enrollees. To further bolster SDoHs that address health equity, public policies can and must also be baked with health, from transportation to food systems and education.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Yesterday the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS ), announcing they will delay implementation of changes to physician evaluation and management (E&M) codes until 2021.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 9, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Tennessee HB 518 3/21/18: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee. general assembly no later than January 15, 2019.

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care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Expanded fee-for-service reimbursement, such as the addition of CPT 99091 in 2018 and several additional codes that are currently in the proposed physician fee schedule for 2019 (specifically 990X0, 990X1 and 994X9), help bridge that gap. This has already started with CPT 99091, and will accelerate into 2019.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 5, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The comptroller shall report findings, along with any recommendations, to the members of the general assembly no later than January 15, 2019. .

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 14, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The comptroller shall report findings, along with any recommendations, to the members of the general assembly no later than January 15, 2019.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 29, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The comptroller shall report findings, along with any recommendations, to the members of the general assembly no later than January 15, 2019.

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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). I exhaled in a mindful moment.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state. Schedule them for telemedicine visits while you reserve your exam rooms for commercial and Medicare patients. 6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine was first posted on July 8, 2019 at 4:26 pm.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 14, 2019

Thu, 03/14/2019 - 17:33. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. I’ve heard the derisive comments from those in the health policy stratosphere that prefer centralized government command and control of health care in America. Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Seema Verma. Initiatives.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In “Waste in the US Health Care System,” a team from Humana and the Univrsity of Pittsburgh recalibrated the previous finding of 30% of wasted spending to the 25%, which equates to a waste-range of $760 bn to $935 bn. election cycle have been addressing these two issues: first, in the continuum of policies for reforming the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2021

It’s timely, then, to re-visit a research paper on subsidizing fruits and vegetables from a March 2019 issue of PLOS as an introduction to a new initiative growing out of The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) on produce prescriptions. health citizens and taxpayers.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

Thirty-eight percent of large employers offered a worksite clinic in 2019, up from 27 percent in 2014. For payers, it becomes important to benchmark the prices paid commercially against a common reference point such as Medicare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

health care spending will grow to 20% of the national economy by 2028, forecasted in projections pre-published in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs, National Health Expenditure (NHE) Projections. 2019-28: Expected Rebound in Prices Drives Rising Spending Growth. NHE will grow 5.4% in the decade, the model expects.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the nation’s search for spending smarter on health care, the U.S. ” [As a pretty good tea-leaf reader, I pointed this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming, devoting a section to “the grocery store as health destination”].

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. health care system every other year. health care system model.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

While Peloton was a punchline in some peoples’ jokes at the 2019 holiday season ( see here ), the company had an enviable growing waiting list in 2020 — the right thing at the right time. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S.,

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GlobalMed

JULY 21, 2019

Telehealth bills are pending in Congress; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced policy changes and new coverage as well. Resources like the Center for Connected Health Policy can help. Think of your virtual health program like a startup, then pursue funding from grants and. Get funded.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 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.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

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. Just under 9% of patients across all three health plan types had over $500 in OOP costs in 2018. A cost of $125 or more yields abandonment of at least 50%.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The exploding elderly population, in combination with a shrinking workforce to fund Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, will force our health system to ration care in new ways. These realities will increase the role of primary care as the needed coordinator of health services for patients. David Rahija.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

The millions of people covered by employer-sponsored health plans would also be impacted: the ACA baked in assurances for lifetime caps on personal health spending, as well as guarantees for covering pre-existing conditions. Medicare enrollees, too, would face higher payments.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In 2006, Medicare Part D launched, which may have boosted consumers’ faith in Federal healthcare programs. But while there’s majority support for universal health care, we should think broadly about this concept at this moment. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll covered here in Health Populi demonstrated support across party ID back in October 2019. The Gallup-West Health Poll finds similar massive support for government negotiation specifically for COVID-19 treatment pricing, shown in the third table. Gallup and West Health polled 1,016 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

state), compensation for physicians by specialty (ranging from nearly one-half million dollars in orthopedics at the high end to a lower boundary of $212,000 for pediatrics), and inpatient payment for Medicare patients ranging from a high in San Francisco and a lower price in Youngstown, OH.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2019

There’s little Americans, by political party, agree upon in 2019. is prescription drug prices — that they’re too high, that the Federal government should negotiate to lower costs for Medicare enrollees, and that out-of-pocket costs for drugs should be limited.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

This is especially concerning because people set up their 401(k) plans for spending during retirement and in the future — not for current health care spending, for which health savings accounts (HSAs) were designed. [As One-in-four people also sold personal items, like jewelry or furniture, to get cash for health spending.

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