Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this post, I’ll share just a handful of insights that were particularly impactful to my work and my commitment to work toward health citizenship for all people in the U.S. First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. than on white people.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For those of you focused on serving Medicare or older patients, there are some important findings in the JLL study to add into your scenario planning assumptions. “This kind of patient self-reported data makes the leap to over-utilization way too simplistic,” Drobac told Modern Healthcare. This week, the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. The President signed the $8.3

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? First, consider the stark data point(s), and then we can better respond to the question’s answer in the Hot Points , below. These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. Deloitte’s actuaries actually developed this analysis using data from before the coronavirus pandemic. A new health economy bringing about the “end of the general hospital as we know it,” a dramatic change in health care financing in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. For Medicare Part B programs alone, the drug could consume one-half of the total $57 billion of medicines spending… as much as the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. This data point comes from research published in JAMA in April 2016 on the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

Respondents were both uninsured and insured through individual coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual enrollees. Over one-half of folks interviewed in the study were adversely impacted by at least one of these five social determinants of health (SDoH). McKinsey conducted the survey among over 12,500 U.S.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 29, 2018

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Presidential Election by the American Psychological Association in their Stress In America study, which I discussed here in Health Populi. As I look across the Atlantic Ocean from where I’m working at this moment in Dublin, Ireland, my perspective on this data is global. That is a unifying health principle that we can build on.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

The survey results showed that behavioral health, particularly mental health, remained a top service category in the state fiscal year (FY) 2022. This is supported by data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which confirms the increased access and utilization of behavioral health services during the pandemic.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

MAY 2, 2019

The physical therapy industry has been focused on employer-based healthcare, artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in the role of big data and enrollment in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for billing. Telehealth treatments in regards to physical therapy are currently not covered by Medicare.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

As people put off medical appointments and everything from hip replacements to routine mammograms, health spending dropped an annualized rate of 18 percent in the first three months of the year, according to recent federal data. The researchers used visit data from clients of a technology firm, Phreesia.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With “Economy” embodied in the law’s name, a rationale for including HITECH in ARRA was, in part, to help stimulate the nation’s economy beyond the revenues of health IT companies many of whom, in the short-term, directly benefited from the law. Wegman was CEO and advocated for the statewide health information network.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

High Spending Growth Rates For Key Diseases In 2000-14 Were Driven By Technology And Demographic Factors , a June 2018 Health Affairs article, analyzed this data.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

And tech-slow people like my grandmother probably wouldn’t have made it through without the good folks at the local public library loading her loans into the trunk through a touch-free lending system. But you cannot make public policy on anecdotes alone , which is why the CRS report offers a roadmap for lawmakers. Not Medicare.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Preparedness Of Community Health Centers For Telehealth. Despite the changes, many health centers may not be ready to implement high-quality telehealth. A study using 2016 data showed that only 38 percent of CHCs used any telehealth. As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps through the US, health care delivery will never be the same.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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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. ” TOTO collects data from fecal matter deposited in the toilet.

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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

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. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

These projections are based on “current law,” the team from the CMS Office of the Actuary write, “developed using actuarial and econometric modeling methods in addition to judgments about future trends that affect the health care sector.” What if home was our health hub?”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 5, 2020

county using 2017 Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data. They also used aggregated data from the CDC and local public health agencies to plot the rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases in each county as of May 12. Researchers determined the density of infectious disease physicians in every U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023. Key Medicare Behavioral Telehealth Regulations. 2617 , includes the omnibus’ Mental Health Access Improvement Act (S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 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. In 2019, there was a major sentinel event for public health made by a huge private sector force in America: Walmart.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a flurry of changes to regulations around telehealth and virtual care – the vast majority of which expire once the public health emergency ends. But neither took decisive, sweeping action that would permanently enshrine some of the major changes to telehealth policy. "We do have data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Google,” WebMD, or any number of.gov,edu, or.com healthcare information on-ramps; or, to order medical supplies and equipment on ecommerce sites like Amazon, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, and other retail health outlets. Broadband and its fair access rules for all health consumers through net neutrality are a bundled social determinant of health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In second place in terms of total responses was the affordability of health care — a top-of-mind concern for U.S. The future of Medicare and Medicaid as well as access to mental health care also rank high among two-thirds of U.S. voters, but ranking lower in top importance than gun violence and immigration.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

[This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen ]. Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal. ” [This sad truth about U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

With greater recognition of the role of social determinants of health (SDoH), providers, payors and employers will scale solutions for nutrition and food security, transportation, and even loneliness using technology platforms and data mash-ups to determine who-needs-what, when. Health Politics, Policy and the President.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2021

adults with respect to peoples’ ability to afford quality health care. By age, younger Non-White adults have a harder time paying for health care — not a surprise as older Americans 65 and over can access Medicare. seniors when it comes to affording quality health care. Health care spending for U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

If you’re reading Health Populi , then you’re keen on health policy, health economics, most of all, patients: now playing starring roles as consumers, caregivers, and payors in their own care. This survey revealed an important data point that speaks volumes about how people in the U.S.

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