Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Reenita Das Reenita Das is partner and senior vice president for transformational health at Frost & Sullivan. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history. Hospitals faced significant losses in 2020 due to COVID-19 as elective procedures were put on hold and out-patient department visits reduced dramatically.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. The summary’s title tells you the focus of the research: Mending Healthcare in America 2020 – Consumers + Costs. health politics looking toward November 3, 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Considering this research in the current politically-charged year, where health care is top-of-mind for most U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

Between 2020 and 2027, retail drug spending under private health insurance is projected to increase at a rate of 3 percent to 6 percent a year as the impact of generics on spending plateaus, biosimilars continue to see slow uptake, and costly new therapies enter the market. WHAT’S THE IMPACT.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The last point on “new technologies” begs the question, “who” will fund innovation in health care as we emerge from the pandemic with national economics growing back at different paces, and employment in a very different context than pre-pandemic. spends on NASA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. RTM can potentially offer more convenient ways for patients to engage with health systems. consumers want virtual care services.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

When asked what factors contribute to rising health care costs in America, most consumers cite the cost of prescription drugs. approaches the 2020 Presidential election. A recent study on politics and health care spending in the U.S. And that also includes how people will vote at the polls in 2020.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Guns and health care…equivalently stressing out Americans in 2019…and both top ranking issues in U.S. voters’ minds exactly one-year prior to the 2020 Presidential election. adults (56%) identify the 2020 Presidential election as a significant stressor,” up from 52% in the 2016 election.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 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. Consider the 2020 Presidential elections and calls for universal health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2020

While federal agencies can address some of these policies going forward, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid does not have the authority to make changes to Medicare reimbursement policy for telehealth under current law, stakeholders said.

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ACA Times

MAY 1, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the period of non-enforcement for certain non-compliant health policies under the Affordable Care Act through the end of 2020. 2 minute read: The U.S. How do “grandmothered” plans differ from “grandfathered” plans?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

In America, earning lower or middle incomes is a risk factor for having trouble accessing health care and/or paying for it. The study design covered people aged 18 to 64 years, excluding older people assumed to be covered by Medicare. The survey was conducted in July and August 2019 among 1,885 U.S. adults 18 or older.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Federal officials have taken some steps to help small practices, including advancing Medicare payments and reimbursing doctors for virtual visits. Keeping these practices open is not about protecting the doctors’ livelihoods, said Michael Chernew, a health policy professor at Harvard Medical School. “I

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. Deloitte’s analysis is something of a contrarian view given the never-ending upward cost-curve that has been stubborn to bend for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A seasoned entrepreneur and health system leader, he previously managed a health IT portfolio at Tenet Health and led founding operations and technology at EverlyWell. He currently sits on the Rogers Behavioral Health Board of Directors. healthcare.

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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. Along with the two-year delay, CMS also raised base rates, and created an additional code for complex visits.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. Understand reimbursement and licensing basics.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

The share of Americans suffering simultaneously from depression and anxiety grew five-fold, year-over-year, in just the first three-months of the pandemic-mandated lockdown, from April to June 2020, when the death toll still hovered around 120,000. Not Medicare. Not even fancy private insurance plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

More savings would accrue through the quicker adoption of value-based payment models, the authors assert, where clinicians take on financial risk for managing population health. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2021

First, let’s look at the research in PLOS : Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid: A microsimulation. That’s health cost savings at scale, given that Medicare and Medicaid cover about 1 in 3 U.S. health citizens and taxpayers.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

After his legs began to swell, and he felt “very, very lethargic,” he contacted his doctor at Catalyst Health Network, a Texas group of primary care doctors, to ask about less expensive alternatives. A pharmacist helped, but Mr. Chapman no longer has insurance, and is not sure what he will do until he is eligible for Medicare later this year.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs. Reflecting on my many conversations during CES last week, I’m evolving the concept to our homes morphing into health delivery platforms.

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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. Hospital care spending, the largest single component in national health spending, is estimated at $1.3

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the nation’s search for spending smarter on health care, the U.S. This is a fast-evolving space and part of my ongoing research and work with health/care ecosystem stakeholders across a diverse group of sectors — per Kroger’s advice for cross-sector collaboration.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Spatially Health applies geospatial analysis to expand a provider’s understanding of SDoH data. The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. [link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 2023.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The study also addressed the politics of health care leading up to the 2020 Presidential election. So whose job is it anyway to bolster social, economic and environmental health for a nation’s health citizens? I laud these programs initiated by private sector businesses and health care stakeholders.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. health care delivery. Indeed, we can be “up here, too,” doing our part for our communities’ health.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Professionals focused on expanding their telehealth services through Medicare will also be delighted to see the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). Key Medicare Behavioral Telehealth Regulations. The 12/22/22 Senate passage of the 1.7 Legislation Roundup.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Its strategy includes elevating the role of the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, housed in the Health Resource and Service Administration, to "create a focal point on telehealth that will serve as a resource across HHS and enhance coordination with other key federal and private sector partners."

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