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Medicare Advantage’s Favorable Selection Problem

Digital Health Wire

Medicare Advantage plans could be on track to reach over $75B in overpayments this year – nearly 3x prior estimates – causing researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to issue a pressing call for policy reform. Favorable selection at its finest.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals.

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#HealthPolicyValentines – Happy Valentine’s Day

Healthcare IT Today

Health policy wonks logging onto Twitter to check #HealthPolicyValentines this morning pic.twitter.com/X0gsFT1wau — Dania Palanker (@DaniaPal) February 14, 2023 Unlike Medicaid, I don’t need to redetermine my love for you. HealthPolicyValentines — Zach Levin (@ZachLevinTweets) February 14, 2023 Thanks everyone for reading.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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Why Implementing Telehealth Is Worth the Cost

AMD Telemedicine

For example, AMD’s telemedicine technology enables remote providers to treat patients in place at skilled nursing facilities, reducing readmission costs, transportation costs, and medicare penalties. Many expanded reimbursement opportunities will be in place until the end of 2023 , so the time to elevate your healthcare program is now.