Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With new rules emanating from the White House this month focusing on health care price transparency, health care costs are in the spotlight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Zócalo Health is available to individuals living in California. In August 2021, he founded Zócalo Health to deliver a first-class family medicine experience for the Latino community. Before founding Zócalo Health, he served as a founding team member and senior leader at Amazon Care where he led several technical teams.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

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. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Their ability to recover in 2021 and 2022 as the national economy heals and again grows will be a crucial time period to strategic plan and executive for a future that is not defined by a traditional inpatient bed.

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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

MAY 25, 2021

health citizens. Some national health plans have already looked to acquire telehealth companies and embed virtual care into their models. Look, too, to the upcoming annual 2021 ATA Conference and Expo that will bring current and futures thinking to attendees every week in June.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Some insurers have hinted at pulling back on payment, although they will have a hard time doing so as long as Medicare maintains “parity” with in-person visits. But at the same time, systems must also prepare for growing complexity in 2021 : what is the right balance of in-person versus virtual care?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion raised in the first half of 2021 across 372 deals. “To billion—down from $14.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries.

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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. Attention to Health Equity: A notable aspect of the pandemic was the disparate impact it had on people of color and other marginalized groups.

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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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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. The actual dollar costs grew from 1,102 in January 2000 to $4,097 in July 2021, according to this source.

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

The issue of health care costs, and in particular out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, continues to be a priority for most U.S. As the chart shows, this accelerated in the third quarter of 2021 when the overall U.S. voters across political party. economy improved.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

in this moment, here’s a huge consensus for Americans on a single issue in 2021. The survey was fielded in June 2021 among 1,071 U.S. That 3-in-4 Americans includes 85% of Democrats, 64% of Independents, and 64% of Republicans, as well. Given our political chasms in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2021

cannot afford to pay for quality health care — an especially acute challenge for Black and Hispanic Americans, according to a West Health-Gallup poll conducted in March 2021, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. adults with respect to peoples’ ability to afford quality health care. Health care spending for U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2021

But across all priorities, it turns out that prescription drug costs rank higher in Americans’ minds than any other issue in the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll for June 2021. Two-thirds of U.S. residents were able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine was a “top priority.” On the cost-front, 90% of U.S.

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ACA Times

MARCH 22, 2021

3 minute read: President Joe Biden nominated California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a known supporter of the ACA, as the new Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. On March 18, 2021, Becerra was confirmed by the slimmest of margins (50-49) as the new HHS secretary. Becerra was previously a member of the U.S.

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