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

Health Populi

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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Care Angel Launches Offering to Support Managed Care Plans Charged with Medicaid Redetermination

Digital Health Global

The company’s offering is announced amidst the unwinding of the public health emergency, which had allowed for the continuous enrollment of members. Care Angel offers well-timed, personalized conversations that support health insurers’ cost-containment, revenue retention, and labor-shortage mitigation efforts.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. Clinicians partner with patients, often in teams and group-based care.

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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

Turning to ChatGPT some 123 years later, I queried, “What is a health plan?” The response: A health plan is a comprehensive package of healthcare services and coverage that helps individuals or groups manage and finance their healthcare needs. Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

The “digital front door” has become increasingly important to health care organizations, as well, with 63% of providers enabling patients to make appointments through their portal, and 61% providing online bill payment. Health Populi’s Hot Points: June 2021 is an auspicious month: first, it’s Pride Month!

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation). With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). Quitting smoking.