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Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2019 has bipartisan Senate and House support and would expand telehealth services through Medicare. The CONNECT for Health Act of 2019 builds on the progress made in recent years to increase the use of telehealth through Medicare. Require a study to explore more ways to expand telehealth services so that more people can access health care services in their own homes. MORE
Editor’s Note: Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government. Financial Medicare and Medicaid Medicaid Medicare payment models Value Based Payments MORE
A recent study by the HHS Office of Inspector General suggests that Medicare ACOs coordinate care more effectively when they have the right health IT tools in place, particularly when ACO members share one EHR platform and have access to a robust HIE. MORE
A study in JAMA published this week analyzed research reports that have measured waste in the U.S. 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
Let’s start with the Morning Consult poll results, which compare support for Medicare for All from January 2019 and August 2019. the party’s loudest supporter of Medicare for All. adults surveyed, 50% believed that Medicare is free. MORE
This month’s October 2019 study finds a cohort of Boomers and older peers few of whom have actually used telemedicine — only one in seven people over 50 said their providers offered care via telehealth, and only 4% of people had a telehealth visit in the past year. MORE
On November 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an update to payment policies and payment rates for services provided under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or after January 1, 2019. We’ve referenced studies in the past that show a large majority of patients (67% – 82%) are interested in telehealth services, or would be if they were available. MORE
Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. The study , published Aug. Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. MORE
Medicare and Medicaid are better than private insurers at keeping spending per beneficiary low, a finding that has crucial implications for the current health policy debate, according to a new report. MORE
Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. It also compares the potential for bias through simulations to some other common approaches to such comparisons across studies. MORE
Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT IT Role Health IT Digital Divide MACRA meaningful use Medicare MIPS Physician MU Attestation SK&A MORE
That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As If you’re at AHIP, come hear Nicole and me brainstorm the results of this study. MORE
Despite an industry focus on the benefits of primary care, spending on such services makes up just a fraction of Medicare spending, according to a new study. MORE
Editor’s Note: Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government. or Canada, Medicare could have saved nearly $73 billion in 2018, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. For the study, researchers analyzed 79 medicines that Medicare Part D spent the most on that did not have competition from lower-cost generic alternatives. MORE
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Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In addition to these two consumer studies, we can add to this context the latest read on the U.S. MORE
There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Younger Medicare beneficiaries are more digitally engaged (connected) than their older peers. MORE
million research grant; favorable study results for One Drop Also: Smoking cessation app trial wins $2.7 MORE
Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal. Let’s take on pharma, allow negotiations of prices under Medicare. MORE
Survata conducted the study for Cedar among 1,607 online U.S. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year. Healthcare Consumer Experience Study. MORE
Health Populi
AUGUST 28, 2019
Let’s start with the Morning Consult poll results, which compare support for Medicare for All from January 2019 and August 2019. the party’s loudest supporter of Medicare for All. adults surveyed, 50% believed that Medicare is free.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 9, 2019
That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As If you’re at AHIP, come hear Nicole and me brainstorm the results of this study.
Health Populi
AUGUST 21, 2019
There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Younger Medicare beneficiaries are more digitally engaged (connected) than their older peers.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Medicare is overpaying for graduate medical education—the money used to train residents—which could be used to address physician shortages, according to a new study
FierceHealthIT
MAY 7, 2019
Medicare Advantage members often account for less healthcare spending before they switch plans, meaning the government may be significantly overpaying MA insurers, according to a new study.
Health Populi
JUNE 24, 2019
Cost is the major reason why Medicare Advantage plan beneficiaries switch plans, but people who switch also tend to have lower satisfaction scores based on non-cost factors. Power’s 2019 Medicare Advantage Plan Study. Power study.
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BHM Healthcare Solutions
JUNE 26, 2018
Editor’s Note: The growth of Medicare Advantage as a program (it accounts for a third of Medicare enrollees and spending), and the 9.3% The growth of Medicare Advantage as a program (it accounts for a third of Medicare enrollees and spending), and the 9.3%
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 7, 2019
Though more baby boomers are aging into Medicare, relatively few are choosing Medicare Advantage plans as their entry point to the program, a new study shows.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 11, 2019
A recent study by the HHS Office of Inspector General suggests that Medicare ACOs coordinate care more effectively when they have the right health IT tools in place, particularly when ACO members share one EHR platform and have access to a robust HIE.
Clocktree
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2019 has bipartisan Senate and House support and would expand telehealth services through Medicare. The CONNECT for Health Act of 2019 builds on the progress made in recent years to increase the use of telehealth through Medicare. Require a study to explore more ways to expand telehealth services so that more people can access health care services in their own homes.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 27, 2019
Physicians overestimate the time it takes to perform procedures that are then used to calculate how they get paid under the Medicare physician fee schedule, a new study found
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BHM Healthcare Solutions
AUGUST 27, 2019
Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. The study , published Aug. Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 10, 2019
Persistently high-cost Medicare patients tend to be younger, members of racial or ethnic minority groups, dual-eligible Medicaid patients or suffering from end-stage renal disease, a new study reports
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 10, 2019
Overall care costs were similar or lower at teaching hospitals versus non-teaching hospitals for Medicare beneficiaries undergoing common procedures
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 21, 2019
A new study released by the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare reveals that inpatient psychiatric facilities are spending vast amounts of their budgets to comply with CMS regulations
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Though a Medicare buy-in plan would likely lower costs for older adults, it could lead to higher premiums for younger people in the exchanges, according to a new report.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
MARCH 5, 2019
Editor’s Note: Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government. Financial Medicare and Medicaid Medicaid Medicare payment models Value Based Payments
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
The number of Medicare Advantage plans offering an expanded supplemental benefit in 2020 increased to 364 from 102 for 2019, as plans become more comfortable with the added flexibility, a new study found
BHM Healthcare Solutions
MAY 7, 2019
Editor’s Note: Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government. or Canada, Medicare could have saved nearly $73 billion in 2018, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. For the study, researchers analyzed 79 medicines that Medicare Part D spent the most on that did not have competition from lower-cost generic alternatives.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 9, 2019
times higher than the rates Medicare would have paid, according to a new Rand Corp. study. The prices paid to U.S. hospitals by private insurers are about 2.4
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Medicare and Medicaid are better than private insurers at keeping spending per beneficiary low, a finding that has crucial implications for the current health policy debate, according to a new report.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 12, 2019
Despite an industry focus on the benefits of primary care, spending on such services makes up just a fraction of Medicare spending, according to a new study.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
million research grant; favorable study results for One Drop Also: Smoking cessation app trial wins $2.7
BHM Healthcare Solutions
APRIL 10, 2018
Editor’s Note: Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government. Financial Medicare and Medicaid Medicaid Medicare payment models Value Based Payments
Healthcare Informatics
JANUARY 14, 2019
A study of the data involved in the Medicare program’s mandatory readmissions reduction program has found the results of the program to be considerably weaker than they appear at first sight
Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2019
Survata conducted the study for Cedar among 1,607 online U.S. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year. Healthcare Consumer Experience Study.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 29, 2019
Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT IT Role Health IT Digital Divide MACRA meaningful use Medicare MIPS Physician MU Attestation SK&A
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2019
A study in JAMA published this week analyzed research reports that have measured waste in the U.S. 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.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
White Medicare patients are more likely to be transported to the closest emergency department than their black or Hispanic counterparts, according to a new study out of Boston University’s School of Medicine
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Small business owners are struggling to address rising healthcare costs and are open to a swath of ideas to mitigate these expenses—including “Medicare for All,” a new study shows.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Medicare spends nearly $1,000 less per beneficiary in counties where residents are not only healthy, but happy and satisfied with their lives
FierceHealthIT
MAY 22, 2019
For dually eligible beneficiaries, Medicare Advantage plans outperform Medicare fee-for-service plans, according to a new study from Avalere
BHM Healthcare Solutions
AUGUST 7, 2018
Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. It also compares the potential for bias through simulations to some other common approaches to such comparisons across studies.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JULY 3, 2018
Editor’s Note: There is a growing need to educate seniors on their healthcare costs options, and increase their Medicare knowledge. Respondents admitted to a lack confidence in their knowledge of Medicare.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 7, 2019
million Medicare beneficiaries were treated by providers who committed fraud or abuse—and many of these patients were from vulnerable populations, according to a new study. Between 2012 and 2015, 1.2
FierceHealthIT
JULY 2, 2019
Some seniors must pay up to $1,000 more for certain generic drugs compared to the brand-name version in Medicare Part D, according to a new study
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In addition to these two consumer studies, we can add to this context the latest read on the U.S.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 3, 2019
This month’s October 2019 study finds a cohort of Boomers and older peers few of whom have actually used telemedicine — only one in seven people over 50 said their providers offered care via telehealth, and only 4% of people had a telehealth visit in the past year.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
While physician group ACOs saved Medicare millions, hospital-integrated ACOs cost the program even more than usual, the Harvard-based researchers found
Clocktree
JANUARY 10, 2019
On November 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an update to payment policies and payment rates for services provided under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or after January 1, 2019. We’ve referenced studies in the past that show a large majority of patients (67% – 82%) are interested in telehealth services, or would be if they were available.
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