Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Q2 – – Some industry observers have called this, “telehealth’s big 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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: So, can the U.S. The President signed the $8.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

I welcomed the opportunity to learn from this team’s approach in weaving together the dynamic issues that help us to plan for the long-tail of COVID-19 and its impact on the economy and prospects for the health care industry and health citizens. spends on NASA.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers. patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. A recent study on politics and health care spending in the U.S. Physician fees are cited as cost-contributing by only 18% of patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Reenita Das Reenita Das is partner and senior vice president for transformational health at Frost & Sullivan. This article was co-authored with Chandni Mathur, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. The pandemic has been a massive jolt to the healthcare industry and telehealth stood out as the silver lining.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the past decade, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering SDoH through a variety of lenses across the health/care ecosystem, including care providers like hospitals, health insurance companies, pharma and life science, retail health care front doors, and non-profits and foundations.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

They were generous to invite me to hang out this weekend and observe the various streams of activity, as well as meet with attendees on both the “sell” and “buy” side of the HBW industry. Throughout, I’m wearing my health consumer-focused lens. As for that “A”-word?

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Those virtual care stories were based on interviews with a range of providers and industry representatives, shown in the graphic labelled “collaborators.”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem. 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.

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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

JUNE 23, 2020

The commercial healthcare market is likely to contract and demand for Medicare/Medicaid will increase. What precautions are currently being taken to negate the impact of costs directly related to COVID-19 such as screening, hospital admissions and long-term treatment of COVID-related health issues? But longer term?

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

For decades, America’s $150 billion a year diet industry has failed to curb the nation’s continued weight gain. 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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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2020

While federal agencies can address some of these policies going forward, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid does not have the authority to make changes to Medicare reimbursement policy for telehealth under current law, stakeholders said.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

hospitals have taken a huge hit — financial and in terms of human capital front-line clinicians — in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. Blazing the Telemedicine Trail.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 3, 2022

We had a course called Health, Care & Society wherein students were challenged to learn and think about ethical issues, health policy principles and engaged in conversations on the role of medical providers in our communities. Years ago, I was on the faculty at Albany Medical College.

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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. Some historical perspective is useful for context.

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care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Thank you to the Alliance for Connected Care, The Center for Connected Health Policy, Krista Drobac, Nathaniel Lacktman, David Ryan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service and many others for your persistence in driving change and moving American healthcare forward.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Some insurers have hinted at pulling back on payment, although they will have a hard time doing so as long as Medicare maintains “parity” with in-person visits. Switching to 100 percent telemedicine was easier than most doctors anticipated.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

When providers avoid treating Medicaid patients on a large scale, the medical industry is effectively assigning care based on income and social class. Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state. But there’s another repercussion people don’t always like to talk about.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

More savings would accrue through the quicker adoption of value-based payment models, the authors assert, where clinicians take on financial risk for managing population health. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

On Tuesday, Medicare announced that it will greatly expand coverage for telemedicine visits, previously sharply restricted. In fact, China has moved half of all medical care online, allowing patients to consult with their doctors and get prescriptions from the comfort of their homes.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Venture capital firms provide funding to startups judged to have potential to disrupt existing industries in exchange for ownership and some control over strategy and operations. Another segment of startups focus on a separate driver of health care costs—the prices of medical services. A Brief History. Points Of Caution .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. COVID-19 forced the healthcare industry to adapt in many ways, and the rules relaxed by the PHE declaration enabled rapid progress in many areas, including virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. COVID-19 forced the healthcare industry to adapt in many ways, and the rules relaxed by the PHE declaration enabled rapid progress in many areas, including virtual care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the nation’s search for spending smarter on health care, the U.S. Inspired by the 2022 White House Conference, a consortium of five health care industry stakeholders came together to evolve, in their words, “a new way to think about food” with the hashtag, #NourishMy Health.

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Public Health Medicare Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 182

Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2018

Also, the study found most people who are delaying or skipping care actually have health insurance. Some 86 percent of those surveyed said they’re covered either through their employer, have insurance they purchased directly, or through government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. How technology can help.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative. Food-as-medicine and your healthy kitchen in 2023.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Though not as high profile as Anthem’s policies, payers have been narrowing provider networks to bring down costs. This has been especially true in ACA exchange plans and Medicare Advantage (MA). Wiggins said providers should think like a product manager in industrial America who is responsible for the entire value chain.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

For payers, it becomes important to benchmark the prices paid commercially against a common reference point such as Medicare. The trend has implications for employers, payers, providers and even pharmaceutical and life science companies.

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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. And some industry predictions indicate that dealmaking will bounce back further in the second half of 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Our industry has put 100 million Americans in debt and causes 40% of bankruptcies. Eden Brownell, director of behavioral science at mPulse Mobile , introduced me to the term “techquity,” which means ensuring health equity in technology and tailoring interventions to the person. One of my interviewees said that in the U.S.,

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