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CHI POV: Medicare Coverage and Digital Health

Connected Health Initiative

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use the right digital tools for the job. Examples include the Telehealth Modernization Act of 2021 (H.R.

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A Profile of People in Medicare Advantage Plans – HealthMine’s Survey of “Digital Immigrants”

Health Populi

There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019.

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CHI Statement on Proposed 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Connected Health Initiative

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) thanks the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its continued leadership in providing high-quality, cost-effective care for Americans, and for its release of the draft 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS).

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Challenges in implementing digital health solutions

Digital Health Hub

Age-related health issues and associated costs (chronic conditions such as hypertension, cholesterol, diabetes, cancers, obesity, etc.) This increased cost burden is depleting the Medicare funding which will eventually go bankrupt. There will be difficulty in funding the tax-funded Medicare program. The three aims are: 1.

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Challenges in implementing digital health solutions

Digital Health Hub

Age-related health issues and associated costs (chronic conditions such as hypertension, cholesterol, diabetes, cancers, obesity, etc.) This increased cost burden is depleting the Medicare funding which will eventually go bankrupt. There will be difficulty in funding the tax-funded Medicare program. The three aims are: 1.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. At this moment in U.S.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.