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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. For example, the chart tells us that Walmart welcomes 37 million U.S. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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Chicago Social Worker Indicted for Telehealth Medical Billing Fraud

Telebehavioral Health Institute

million for medical billing fraud from Medicare. The indictment alleges that the couple conspired with a social worker to submit false claims to Medicare, falsely stating that residents had received individual psychotherapy sessions lasting one hour. Medicare fraud, in particular, increases healthcare costs for everyone.

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Chicago Social Worker Indicted for Telehealth Medical Billing Fraud

Telebehavioral Health Institute

million for medical billing fraud from Medicare. The indictment alleges that the couple conspired with a social worker to submit false claims to Medicare, falsely stating that residents had received individual psychotherapy sessions lasting one hour. Medicare fraud, in particular, increases healthcare costs for everyone.

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American healthcare: The good, bad, ugly, future

Henry Kotula

Americans today pay twice as much for the same medications as people in Europe largely because of Congressional legislation passed in 2003. Now, under provisions of the new Inflation Reduction Act , the government will be able to negotiate the prices of 10 widely prescribed medications based on how much Medicare’s Part D program spends.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

The updated ACO Reach payment model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth a value-based model of capitated payments to physicians who meet quality and spending targets – combined with a plan to deal with health equity. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration.

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Getting Started with Telehealth

TheraNest

Telehealth is different from telemedicine because it encompasses a broader scope of remote healthcare services. telemedicine refers only to remote clinical services, while telehealth can refer to a range of non-clinical healthcare services as well. According to the ONC. Telehealth patients saw a 26.6% County of Los Angeles County.

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Getting Started with Telehealth

TheraNest

Telehealth is different from telemedicine because it encompasses a broader scope of remote healthcare services. telemedicine refers only to remote clinical services, while telehealth can refer to a range of non-clinical healthcare services as well. According to the ONC. Telehealth patients saw a 26.6% County of Los Angeles County.