Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. In the case of Medicare Part D, the drug benefit, Chandra said, “If you’re sick enough to fall into the donut hole, you may have higher mortality.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And this is not only for providers and plans, but for pharma and life science companies, as well. Do not assume that older people, and especially “younger older” Medicare members between 65 and 74 don’t increasingly feel this way.

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Medical Billing Medicare Life Science Pharmaceuticals 235

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Humana and Interwell Health are launching a value-based kidney care model for Medicare Advantage members in 13 states. NTT DATA announced Craig Hovda as the Lead of the company’s Health Plan & Life Sciences business.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

” Google Cloud released new capabilities in Vertex AI Search for healthcare and life sciences, highlighting Hackensack Meridian Health and Highmark Health in its announcement. Senior care company DOUS announced the DUOS+AI platform , a conversational AI tool for members enrolled in Medicare Advantage.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Like Eko, S-There Technologies and TripleW have devices that allow remote monitoring of patients, presumably capitalizing on the new reimbursement opportunities for Remote Patient Monitoring in the last two Medicare Physician Fee Schedules.

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Connected Health Life Science BioTech Digital Health 61

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Series B funding proceeds will enable Scene to further accelerate its ability to serve Medicaid and Medicare managed care plans, pharmaceutical companies, and clinical research organizations. Scene reaching a milestone of impacting more than 200,000 lives with over 40M engagements through its 360° model of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

The company is focusing on using the predictive power of AI to assist health insurance plans and health provider organizations with risk adjustment, care management, and financial benchmarking for commercial, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid plans, and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

billion through Arcadia’s Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) service. Through our partnerships with the nation’s leading health systems, payers, and life science companies, we are growing a community of innovation to improve care, maximize value, and confront emerging challenges. For more information, visit arcadia.io.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Phil Molner, Managing Partner at Primus Capital, stated “Through its HealthNexus platform, PurpleLab has successfully organized and deployed real-world data to bring differentiated yet rapid commercial and clinical insights to the life sciences industry. About PurpleLab.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology. Mental health service provider Brightside Health expanded Medicare and Medicaid coverage with payers in more than a dozen states.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Investors must understand the market and the complexity of regulations for providers and payers, particularly as they apply to sharing patient data and managing care for Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act programs.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies]. Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S.

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BioTech Pharmaceuticals Leadership Medicare 310

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Product and Company News Google Cloud released MedLM language models for healthcare and life sciences. Pennsylvania-based WellSpan Health selected Arcadia data analytics to supports its Medicare Shared Savings Program. One model is larger and designed for complex tasks; the other is medium and designed for scaling across tasks.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

For Medicare Part B programs alone, the drug could consume one-half of the total $57 billion of medicines spending… as much as the U.S. spends on NASA. The economic impacts of COVID-19 will impact how health care spending, and spending for families and households, for some years to come.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I think that we saw a lot of movement during COVID, we saw a lot of commercial insurers actually move toward covering more telehealth services, and we saw Medicare increase coverage for telehealth services, but we need more. I think together, there’s a lot more that we can accomplish.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found a close link between electoral politics and Medicare: that is, between legislative processes in the U.S. A recent study on politics and health care spending in the U.S. Congress and healthcare spending.

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 22, 2016

If so, this would lead to Medicare-contracted insurance plans covering the cost of CGMs as reimbursable durable medical equipment. If the CGM becomes covered by Medicare, demand for CGMs could spike even further. (While many CGM users already do this, it is not technically an allowed use for the device, according to FDA labeling.).

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Life Science Medicare 58

Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

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

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Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

As he describes it, WEGO Health is working with clients in the life sciences – including pharma, digital health startups and others – to bring patient voice and expertise into their organizations in order to build more patient-centered solutions. (If I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Digital Health Health Data Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

As he describes it, WEGO Health is working with clients in the life sciences – including pharma, digital health startups and others – to bring patient voice and expertise into their organizations in order to build more patient-centered solutions. (If I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Interoperability Digital Health Health Data 60

Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

As he describes it, WEGO Health is working with clients in the life sciences – including pharma, digital health startups and others – to bring patient voice and expertise into their organizations in order to build more patient-centered solutions. (If I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Interoperability Digital Health Health Data 60

Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

As he describes it, WEGO Health is working with clients in the life sciences – including pharma, digital health startups and others – to bring patient voice and expertise into their organizations in order to build more patient-centered solutions. (If I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

Life Science 60

Life Science Digital Health Health Data Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

As he describes it, WEGO Health is working with clients in the life sciences – including pharma, digital health startups and others – to bring patient voice and expertise into their organizations in order to build more patient-centered solutions. (If I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Digital Health Health Data Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. The goal is to compile the most complete patient profile possible, for the benefit of health plans, pharmacy, life sciences, ACOs, providers.

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EHR Interoperability Life Science FHIR 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. The goal is to compile the most complete patient profile possible, for the benefit of health plans, pharmacy, life sciences, ACOs, providers.

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EHR Interoperability Life Science FHIR 60

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Payors have begun to recognize the value of nudging consumers toward over-the-counter products under Medicare Advantage plans. Edelman’s health industry segments for this study are pharma, consumer health, insurance, biotech/life science, and hospitals. Globally, health care trust hit 67, and in the US, 61.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They are focused on creating strategic partnerships to develop a cross-company strategy for health care and life sciences innovation. Verily Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, was founded in 2015. It seems like a lot of well-placed investments for Alphabet, however, that’s only one side of the story.

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Life Science Primary Care Interoperability EHR 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. The goal is to compile the most complete patient profile possible, for the benefit of health plans, pharmacy, life sciences, ACOs, providers.

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EHR Interoperability FHIR Life Science 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. The goal is to compile the most complete patient profile possible, for the benefit of health plans, pharmacy, life sciences, ACOs, providers.

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EHR Interoperability FHIR Life Science 60

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Opportunities thus exist for life sciences and technology companies to develop products for this new therapeutic approach. The role of personally derived connected data (from sensors external or internal to the body) will also facilitate personalized medical care. Social Media.

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Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information 87

Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. The goal is to compile the most complete patient profile possible, for the benefit of health plans, pharmacy, life sciences, ACOs, providers.

EHR 60

EHR Interoperability FHIR Life Science 60

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

IT vendor Salesforce is rolling out new healthcare tools designed to help healthcare and life sciences organizations meet their patients, members and customers where they are to deliver the right care, at the right time, from anywhere. Since RPM is not considered a telehealth service, it did not face those restrictions.

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Telehealth Life Science Remote care EHR 146

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A survey put forward by the national healthcare, life science and workforce management law firm Epstein Becker Green found that telemental health services have increased in quantity this year – as have fraud-related enforcement actions at the state and federal levels. THE LARGER TREND.

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Telehealth Life Science Medicare Healthcare IT 173

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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. 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.

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Pharmaceuticals Medicare Life Science Health Policy 260