Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Loneliness is increasingly recognized as an impactful influence on positive health outcomes, having found that social isolation can increase the risk of premature death by 50%. It’s actually decades…when we slow down to consider the years from 1967 to 2019.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. This article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these changes, which are crucial for healthcare providers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As providers accept value-based payment, they have an incentive to adopt digital health tools that empower patients to align with them, virtually and economically.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 7, 2022

It is just such a simple way of thinking – the focus being on treating the actual source of the problem rather than adding a pharmaceutical, and then another pharmaceutical– and then to fix a side effect, yet another. If you are eating healthy, but your mental health is not good, it doesn’t matter.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

For employers, per capita health spending on someone with a complex chronic illness is eight times that of a healthy person. Lastly, employers are beginning to recognize the importance of helping their employees manage their mental health and wellbeing. WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

. “Employer health spending has grown from 6 percent of total wages in 1988 to more than 12 percent in 2018,” driven by healthcare prices growing faster than the general economy, and the adoption of new technologies, procedures, and increasingly expensive new prescription drugs, PwC observes. economy by 2026.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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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

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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Participants will also be asked to use sleep sensors in their beds and to undergo mental health tests. Using data analytics and machine learning, researchers hope to understand health at a deeper level. platform – a very interesting story in its own right.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

"These new care from anywhere innovations ensure that we continue this digital transformation in healthcare and empower providers, payers, care coordinators and pharmaceutical companies to deliver care for patients wherever they are," he added. Vivify Health's remote care enhancements. Salesforce is in HIMSS21 booth 2216.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

Population-level mental health addressing depression/anxiety, stress, and substance use/dependency will be in demand. is heating up, with President Biden mentioning the scenario of Medicare negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers in his latest speech measuring progress at 100 days in the White House.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Two-thirds of Rx’s were dispensed to treat chronic conditions, notably hypertension, mental health, lipid management, diabetes, and anti-coagulants. In 2018, we saw more incentives to inspire adherence to prescription drug regimens, particularly in Medicare Part D along with increasing focus by pharmacists and providers.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Christ Hospital Health Network, with over 3,500 employees, is ranked No. Hospital leadership recently refreshed the Employee Assistance Program, which looks to improve work-life balance for employees by addressing behavioral and mental health needs. La Jolla Pharmaceutical (San Diego). Cleveland Clinic.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2021

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

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The growing normal of loneliness and embrace of tele-mental health Mental health and medical bills will be inextricably linked for many people who will start the New Year with mashed up resolutions that bridge fiscal health with physical and behavioral health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2019

Pharmaceutical company executives are testifying in the U.S. One of those medicines, insulin, cost a patient $5,705 for a year’s supply in 2016, double what it cost in 2012, according to the Health Care Cost Institute. The study analyzed medical claims for millions of patients, both commercially insured and enrolled in Medicare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The chart illustrates a handful of health policy priorities at the Federal level that may have bipartisan overlap: namely, telehealth coverage, funding for mental and behavioral health, price transparency (in the law but not yet smoothly working for most patients), and reducing out-of-pocket costs for insulin.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

[This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen ]. Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal. ” [This sad truth about U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. We can marry up the Health Affairs prescription drug cost/UM story with the Optum/UnitedHealthcare DTC drug launch for the larger context of what U.S. voters across political party: that is the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs. Outside of the home, I note the growth of retail health options well beyond (but including) the retail pharmacy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Sanders explained that the vast majority of people will pay significantly less for health care than they do right now. .

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Henry Kotula

JULY 31, 2019

Seven support Medicare for All. Unlike many of his Democratic rivals, Biden does not support full Medicare for All. Instead of getting rid of private insurance, Biden said he would build on the ACA through the Biden Plan to create a public health insurance option. ” Kamala Harris. ” Kamala Harris.

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