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

Health Populi

That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP). Let’s put “health” back into the U.S. health care system. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

Health Populi

That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As Those born before 1985 are generally considered as digital immigrants, so people aging into Medicare today are certainly in that cohort.

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HLTH23, Day 1: Startups, providers, payers and retail giants flock to Vegas

FierceHealthIT

LAS VEGAS—The HLTH 2023 conference kicked off Sunday expecting to draw up to 10,000 attendees from across the industry to plot the future of digital health innovation. | The latest news and updates from the HLTH 2023 conference: Uber and Optum team up to simplify access to Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits.

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Insurers point to Medicare Advantage as they boast about growth

FierceHealthIT

Morgan Healthcare Conference this week: the boost from Medicare Advantage. A common theme among insurers speaking at the J.P.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Weaving these ideas together is my mission in preparing a session to deliver at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in June, I’m thinking a lot about the evolving nature of health insurance, plans, and the organizations that provide them. Retail health-meets-Medicare. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022.

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Consumer-facing Medicare plan tools are inaccessible and inaccurate, experts say

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Plan Finder frustrates many seniors, and there's a lot of confusion over what star ratings mean, said multiple speakers at AHIP's National Conference on Medicare.

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Let’s Connect! What I’m looking forward to most at the Connected Health Conference in Boston

Digital Health Today

This Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (October 16-18) I will be in Boston covering the Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event) for Digital Health Today. Above all, I'm looking forward to meeting other members of our Digital Health Today community at the conference! Please click HERE to connect with me if you plan to be there!