Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

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. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We said Mariza Hardin, co-founder and Head of Strategy and Operations at Zócalo Health.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals. The article below clarifies and summarizes the end-of-pandemic reimbursement decisions made by private payers, Medicare, and Medicaid. They can receive care from their homes rather than traveling to a health care facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Witnesses offered a variety of strategies for effectively addressing the future of telehealth. Some, such as Stanford Health Care Chief of Staff Dr. Megan Mahoney, noted that the transition to telehealth amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic enabled more than 225,000 of the system's patients to complete their first video visit.

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Rural hospital closures disproportionately occurred in the South, among for-profit hospitals and among organizations with a Medicare-dependent hospital payment designation. CMS Administrator Seema Verma released a rural health strategy in May aimed at improving access and quality of care in rural communities.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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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. Strategies For Disruption. Despite the shortage of rigorous public evidence, the strategies of startups to influence use and spending are apparent.

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