Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Timothy’s Law requires group health plans to provide comparable coverage for mental health and substance use disorders (MH/SUD) as they do for physical ailments. In 2008, Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA).

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 12, 2024

The addition of standards to account for the passage of the GINA Act 2008. The addition of standards to account for the passage of the GINA Act 2008. The adoption of a four-tired civil monetary penalty structure for violations of HIPAA. The finalization of the Breach Notification Rule and the revised “harm” threshold.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Recently, NIST issued a draft update (SP 800-66r2) to its 2008 publication: An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule, and sought feedback from industry stakeholders ahead of the publication of the final version of the guidance. Background.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. “When housing and health both rank as basic needs in Maslow’s hierarchy, what’s a health system to do?” The average monthly mortgage payment was $1,759 in mid-2022.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is markedly different than the Great Recession of 2008, the last major financial crisis: that financial decline was coined a “ManCession,” taking a more significant toll out of more typically men’s jobs like construction and manufacturing where fewer women worked. poverty rate.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Nurses Public Health 169

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2020

economy, impacting jobs, wages, and health insurance rolls. consumer credit card debt ballooned to record highs in February 2020 since just before the Great Recession of 2008, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S. This, when U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The passage of HIPAA resulted in multiple benefits for the health insurance industry, the healthcare industry, and the people that they serve. For example, the Administrative Requirements (Part 162) helped reduce insurance fraud and accelerated eligibility inquiries, authorization requests, and claims processing.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 18, 2023

For some context, it’s useful to know that the CFPB was created as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in July 2010 in the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis in the U.S. In the Commonwealth Fund’s State of the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 5, 2022

This draft update is intended to integrate with and expand upon a previous NIST Cybersecurity Guidelines revision released in 2008. . NIST Cybersecurity Framework for Healthcare – What it is.

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HIPAA Compliance Health Insurance 98

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2023

TMS, and the more advanced form called Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Deep TMS), are noninvasive, well tolerated, do not require anesthesia or cause systemic side effects, are administered in a doctor’s office in less than 30 minutes, and are covered by most health insurance plans. George, M.D.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 31, 2016

.; Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On August 16, 2016, Health Net Inc. The health insurance company paid the penalty without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations. The Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Affordability and availability for in-person mental health services are also health-equity challenged often due to risks of social determinants of health factors like transportation, health insurance coverage, and job security which can allow working age people to get time away from work for care.

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Health Insurance Public Health 77

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008. It’s important to note that health care cost fiscal stress is not only a symptom for people lacking health insurance.

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Medical Billing COVID-19 Health Insurance 105

American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The HIPAA Regulations and Cybersecurity Training for Dental Healthcare Personnel course educates employees and management on how to be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Introduction to HIPAA “HIPAA” stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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Verisys

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Passed last December, the Act requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to improve the verification and refresh process of their provider directory systems. Donald Potts has helped healthcare customers define business problems and design innovative solutions since he started at Optum in 2008.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2018

As Walmart looks to add Humana’s health insurance business to its expanding health/care portfolio, the company is building a vertically integrated offering with many on-ramps and front doors to health and wellness.

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Health Insurance Medicare Medicare Doctors 54

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

A technology called blockchain was developed in 2008 and has found its biggest interest in the financial industry. While popular discussions focus on health insurance coverage, shortcomings of EHRs and the health system in general, we must never lose sight of what should be the focus of care itself, patients.

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US Department of Health and Human Services Electronic Medical Records Hospitals Health Insurance 122

Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.

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Prescription Drug Pricing COVID-19 ACA Hospitals 87

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

In previous research, PwC has calculated consumer spending on other health-related services and products that people gladly pay for out-of-pocket, outside of the health insurance premium copayments, coinsurance, insurance premiums and deductibles. The NY Fed found that household debt increased to $13.21

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Health Law RX

JULY 25, 2022

You may be vaguely aware that GINA prohibits discrimination on the basis of genetic information by employers in making employment decisions and by health insurers in determining eligibility, cost, coverage, and benefits.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Those born before 1985 are generally considered as digital immigrants, so people aging into Medicare today are certainly in that cohort.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

FANGs & MAGA – Meet WaWa for Health, Walgreens and Walmart. And for historical perspective, this post published over a decade ago in 2008! How Walmart Could Bolster Healthcare in the Community. Drugstore Dominance, and the Walmart Wild Card.

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Doctors Hospitals Health Insurance 63

AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These different Acts initiated the testing of alternate forms of delivering care and payment methodologies.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

If the point of “building back better” — to use the Biden administration’s preferred phrase — is enhancing the public health system’s resilience to future crises, using January 2020 as a benchmark is wholly inappropriate. Consider that between 2008 and 2020, U.S. public health expenditures fell by 30 percent.

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Public Health COVID-19 Public Health Professionals Governance 362

AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These different Acts initiated the testing of alternate forms of delivering care and payment methodologies.

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Medicare Medicare Medicaid Medicaid 52

Redox

APRIL 29, 2019

We’ll explore the recent history of health IT and then look at current forces that make today very different from 2008 when EHR adoption kicked into overdrive and set us down the path we find ourselves today. Laying the foundation for Health IT.

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Doctors Overpayments Overpayment Health Insurance 40

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The She-Cession, discussed here in Health Populi, has been especially burdensome to women’s personal economics and financial health compared with the 2008 Great Recession which hit men harder economically. A lesson from the pandemic for us to take away: in re-imagining and -building a better health system for U.S.

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COVID-19 Public Health Professionals Public Health Health Insurance 77

Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In their latest look into consumers’ views on business in America, Gallup found that peoples’ ratings on business fell to their lowest ratings overall since 2008. Health Populi’s Hot Points : For some context, remember that 2008 was the advent of the Great Recession. have declined in the past year.

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Prescription Drug Pricing Health Insurance Medical Billing Doctors 52

Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

More health citizens access therapy via virtual platforms at the start of the COVID-19 era in early 2020, with tele-mental health sustaining use ahead of other conditions for which people seek virtual medical services. As we observed in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, more DIY care came to people’s self-care at home.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Public Health Hospitals 52

HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act to allow employers to offer standalone telehealth service programs – not unlike dental and vision plans – in addition to existing health insurance plans.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Health Insurance Telemedicine 98

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

employers offered health insurance to workers in 2017, EBRI reports in its latest Issue Brief. companies offered health insurance to their employees, up by 1.6 For perspective, ten years earlier in 2008, 56.4% of employers offered health insurance, shown in the first bar chart (Figure 1 from the EBRI report).

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

Fastest growing jobs in US are in #healthcare says @paulkrugman at #hx360 @himss #himss18 #Healtheconomics is US are tightly integrated into overall American economy.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”). And none of these laws apply in the context of life insurance. So, let’s dig into each of those a bit, shall we? Should it be?

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Health Insurance Pharmaceutical Industry HIPAA Bioethics 86