Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Patients need a lot of help adopting a lifestyle that can reduce their risk, monitoring their progress, and uplaoding the results of monitoring to their portal. Rich Steinle, CEO of Carium , emphasized that medication is part of a holistic approach to health that includes exercise, lifestyle, mental state, and other health care conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), a Medicare and Medicaid program designed for individuals aged 55 and above requiring nursing-home-level care, embraced the benefits of providing care at home prior to the pandemic, enabling this frail population to remain within their familiar home environments and communities.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Payment arrangements and rates, from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance, shared-savings models, and other new-fangled reimbursement regimes, and, Social determinants of health of patient populations, dealing with health equity and barriers to care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Instead, attending to health and wellbeing, staying true to an exercise regime, maintaining good nutrition, and managing stress top U.S. Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

A huge part of the problem is that the healthcare system can’t get patients to follow through with their prescribed care plans. Patients are human, and human brains are wired to focus on immediate gratification. Medication adherence is one of those individual behaviors that many patients struggle with.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 7, 2019

It gave me discipline — not only about diet, exercise, and sleep habits ? This connection to the patient experience is incredibly important. My T1D Journey. “I I was diagnosed at 18 months. Living with and learning how to manage my T1D taught me important life lessons. but also about skills I would need the rest of my life.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Over the past two months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun shifting its policies in favor of telemedicine and telehealth services. That’s a big deal, especially because about 20 percent of PT patients drop out of treatment within the first three visits, and 70 percent fail to complete their full course of care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage. Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. The pandemic has bolstered fitness at home with gyms largely closed and people making room at home for exercise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2021

“What if…healthcare happened where we live, work, play, pray and shop, delivering the highest levels of retail experience?” ” I asked and answered in my book HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

It is difficult to behave like Rational Economic Man and Woman as a patient in the American health care labyrinth; but that doesn’t mean people aren’t exercising new muscles and choosing services delivered in newer, lower-cost sites.

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