The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates. In a post I wrote here in 2012, I discussed some of the implications of low health literacy. The use of blockchain in healthcare has been discussed for a number of years.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Remember that health insurers rank very low on consumer experience compared with retailers and grocers. Contemporary health engagement for patients in the U.S. PwC offers five pillars for healthcare stakeholders to build on to improve experience, including: Convenience.

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The Health Law Firm

JUNE 28, 2012

New information is available regarding the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) initial round of mandated audits of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covered entities. Initial HIPAA Audits Began November 2011.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

Otherwise, the news is negative across the remaining four segments: consumer health is the second most-trusted segment, by 56% of Americans, but dropped by 7 percentage points from 2017. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points. But you may be asking, “What happened in Colombia?

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The Health Law Firm

MAY 9, 2012

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a settlement with Phoenix Cardiac Surgery (PCS) over alleged Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) violations. Indest III, J.D.,

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The Health Law Firm

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law. On October 22, 2012, a former Florida Hospital employee admitted to stealing patient information that was used to target customers for lawyers and chiropractors, according to a number of sources. By Lance O. Leider, J.D., and George F. Indest III, J.D.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This year, transparency and health literacy challenges top the findings. When the three in ten folks do shop, four in ten people used the internet or mobile apps to do so — a dramatic increase from 2012. Shopping is most commonly done among Millennials, one-half of whom shop for health care services.

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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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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The HITECH Act requires the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to conduct periodic audits of HIPAA covered entity and business associate compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. The audits were completed in December of 2012.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 12, 2022

That investigation confirmed that the attackers had gained access to parts of its network that contained the protected health information of approximately 120,000 members of Priority Health’s health plans.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is the main enforcer of HIPAA compliance; however, state Attorneys General also play a role in enforcing compliance with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 12, 2024

Subsequently, the bill was signed into law by Governor Rick Perry, and went into effect in September of 2012. 2012” is not a movie reference, either. The HITECH Act encouraged healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records. HB 300 was the 300th House Bill introduced during the legislative session for 2011.

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Innovaare Compliance

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Financial and Strategic Implications HCSC, the largest customer-owned health insurer in the U.S., Cigna’s Strategic Shift Cigna is exiting a sector that has historically been a significant growth area for insurers. This includes nearly 600,000 members in Medicare Advantage plans, over 450,000 in Medicare Supplement plans, and 2.5

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power,” your mind probably imagines reviews of automotive performance, retail shopping experiences, or perhaps even health insurance plan customer service. Expanding its report-card role in the health ecosystem. That is, mental health issues. health care system. When you think “J.D.

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Innovaare Compliance

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Financial and Strategic Implications HCSC, the largest customer-owned health insurer in the U.S., Cigna’s Strategic Shift Cigna is exiting a sector that has historically been a significant growth area for insurers. This includes nearly 600,000 members in Medicare Advantage plans, over 450,000 in Medicare Supplement plans, and 2.5

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

Last month, another study in Health Affairs reported substantial growth in nonprofit hospitals’ operating profits and cash reserves from 2012 to 2019 “but no corresponding increase in charity care.” in charity care, while for-profit hospitals provided $3.80.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It is often referred to as the “right to know” law and was revised in 2012 to align with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. According to OSHA’s requirements for hazard communication, employers must establish a written hazard communication program for the workplace. What does OSHA Do?

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

It is interesting to note that a 2012 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on this topic concluded that hospital consolidation increases healthcare costs and that physician-hospital consolidation has neither improved quality of care or reduced costs.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 10, 2023

This new Final Rule counts days of patients who receive from the demonstration (1) health insurance that covers inpatient hospital services or (2) premium assistance that covers 100 percent of the premium cost to the patient, which the patient uses to buy health insurance that covers inpatient hospital services.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 29, 2022

AHIP, which represents the health insurance industry, released a statement that said Medicare Advantage plans “deliver better service, access to care, and value for nearly 30 million seniors and people with disabilities and for American taxpayers.” Cathy Rodgers (R-Wash.)

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Health insurance and property insurance. Lack of insurance makes everything dreadful. Autonomy and insurance help you through a lot of crises. I had great health insurance as a federal employee. And I had an umbrella on my insurance policy to handle extra damages. I had health insurance.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

” Drug spending by the state for its Medicaid , prison, state hospital, and other programs had been climbing 20% a year since 2012, so the first-term Democrat issued an executive order requiring California to make its own generic drugs and forge partnerships with counties and other states to buy drugs in bulk. But on Jan.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% for Individual health plans — increasing from 7.5% for Group plans and 7.5% and 7.0%, respectively.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

That information related to patients who had received healthcare services between March 2012 and November 2022. The information exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, diagnoses/conditions, medications, test results, and procedure information.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2018

The first chart shows consumers’ concerns about health care expenses over time, comparing perceptions in 2009 and 2017. By 2017, just under one-half of Americans were concerned about healthcare and health insurance costs, and 34% concerned about routing medical expenses.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information. Though this is a significant increase from 2012, numbers haven’t budged much since 2015. New York City HIE entity Healthix chose CLEAR identity verification technology for its My Health Record NY portal.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Many of us have experienced a prior authorization (PA) process – when a doctor requests approval from a health insurance company before providing a medical service or treatment. Approval indicates the insurer will pay when they get the bill. What is prior authorization?

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 16, 2022

Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health insurance, couldn’t make an appointment with his doctor for a dangerous intestinal infection because the office said he had outstanding bills. And they had retiree health insurance through Con Edison. The health system is not affiliated with KHN.).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

where workers have traded off wage growth for health care cost growth in companies that have covered health insurance. Job growth in the expanding gig economy has been, statistically, impressive — but those jobs largely aren’t accompanied by benefit packages and, especially, health insurance coverage.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

The giant health care, climate, and tax bill expected to pass the House on Friday and be sent to the president for his signature won’t be as sweeping as the Democrats who wrote it had hoped, but it would help millions of Americans better afford their prescription drugs and health insurance. According to KFF, 1.5

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In “Waste in the US Health Care System,” a team from Humana and the Univrsity of Pittsburgh recalibrated the previous finding of 30% of wasted spending to the 25%, which equates to a waste-range of $760 bn to $935 bn. That’s the Holy Grail and vision in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health. The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016. Ultimately, the Fund asserts, where you live matters.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

1791(c), the Department of Human Services, Division of Aging Services, Office of the State Health Insurance for the Aged and Disabled, readopted a rule regarding the Senior Gold Prescription Program Manual. On October 18, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. See readopted N.J.A.C. On October 18, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. On November 1, 2021, at 53 N.J.R.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. The fact is that most U.S.

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Health Law Gurus

JUNE 12, 2019

Important ethical considerations play into new uses of health data including what data to collect, how to use it, when and how to intervene, and how to monitor the efficacy and execution of predictive analytics. The healthcare industry can learn lessons from other industries as they traveled this path.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Finally this week, but not least, there’s also news on the health insurance coverage front. 15, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services this week reported that enrollment is already up 13% from last year to almost 16 million people, including about 3.1 million people who are new enrollees.

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