Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers. per year, 2017-26, expected to hit $5.7 The annual growth rate of medical spending will be 5.5%

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Last week, The Lancet published its comprehensive study on the Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The study looked into the food intake among people in 195 countries and their health outcomes (mortality and morbibidity).

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older. Higher-income, 16%.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

There was a bounce in “Confident” group in 2019, which fell by 10% just months later to nearly the 2017 level. Make affordable, accessible health insurance coverage available to more Americans. Patients in America are envisioning a more resilient health and social fabric in a next-normal for the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Consumers point to some organizations that they perceive may be working against their better health: these include fast food manufacturers, the entertainment industry, food processors (“Big Food”), the media, government agencies, and health insurance companies. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system. Most say, “no,” a proportion falling from the high of 47% “yes” in 2017 to 40% this year. See the second chart, reported in a recent study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Being Seriously Ill in the U.S. .

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Jane Sarashon

JUNE 1, 2022

MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166. MMI 2017 Health Care Costs for Family of Four Will Reach $27,000 in 2017. MMI 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Our customer experience expectations have been re-wired: we expect, even demand, that delightful retail experience from our providers, health insurance plans, pharmacies, and other healthcare touch-points. trillion amounts to the entire GDP of Spain in 2017. We demand that from the supply side of U.S. trillion a year.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The New York Wage Parity Act, Public Health Law sets minimum wage and benefit requirements for licensed home care services agencies (LHCSAs) that employ home care aides who render services to Medicaid recipients in New York City and three counties in New York. million to New York State for conduct between 2014–2017.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Upwell Health surveyed 5,255 people with diabetes online in 2017. Health Populi’s Hot Points: America is the United States of Diabetes when it comes to healthcare spending. Care for people with diagnosed diabetes accounts for 1 in 4 health care dollars in the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The new state plan option allows state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) agencies to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage, regardless of any changes in circumstances, through a state plan amendment (“SPA”). This option is available for five years and ends on March 31, 2027. 31, 2022). [2]

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

Regarding the one-half of people who would be interested in an exercise class at a retail store, note that Hy-Vee grocery began collaborating on that concept with Orangetheory fitness in 2017. Health Populi’s Hot Points: A central pillar of user-centered design is to meet people where they “are.”

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Jane Sarashon

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Employers covering health insurance for workers’ families will face insurance premiums reaching, on average, $22,463. With that sticker-shock level of health plan costs, welcome to the 2022 Employer Health Benefits Survey from Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF’s annual study of employer-sponsored health care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

symptoms of depression were three-times greater in April 2020 in the COVID-19 pandemic than in 2017-2018. A lesson from the pandemic for us to take away: in re-imagining and -building a better health system for U.S. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

.: Relatively high levels of obesity are literally weighing down Americans’ health status, contributing to higher rates of diabetes, raising risks for many cancers, and reversing gains made in heart disease. The 2017 U.S. But in the latter five-year period, 2012-2017, life expectancy gains in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The growing supply of teletherapy serving more people at scale who need and want to access services has been encouraging to see, with investments in digital mental health hitting $3.1 billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. That is indeed the case.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

In the first half of 2022, we have observed that a few sectors saw their median multiples tick up relative to the period between January 2017 – December 2021, namely Analytics (by 1.3x), Infrastructure Technology (by 0.9x), and RCM Services (by 0.7x). Q2 HEADLINES. 3M is said to consider sale of its healthcare IT division. April 26: 3M Co.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 29, 2023

It has been 27 years since President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law, but compliance is still proving a challenge for many HIPAA-regulated entities. The 2016-2017 HIPAA audit program identified many areas of noncompliance. million in 2018 to just $1.6 million in 2022.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them? What does it take to keep RNs happy?

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Entering the third year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS seeks to clarify the period of time during which MAOs must comply with the special requirements at 42 CFR 422.100(m) to ensure access for enrollees to covered services throughout the disaster or emergency period.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

California health system to outsource RCM jobs to Optum. New California public health rules make it harder to visit loved ones in nursing homes. Colorado Department of Public Health says new omicron variant detected in Denver metro area. Executive director of Colorado consumer health group to step down.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register from October-December 2021: On October 4, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. 3A:58 by the Department of Children and Families in 2017.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017. Paul Ryan said, on the floor of the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

I’ve talked about the importance of connectivity as a social determinant of health here on this site in December 2017, as well as in July 2016 in the Huffington P ost (appropriately published in the “Life/Wellness” section). Without them, the U.S.

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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. Rovner: Yes.

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

into cutting opioids in hospitals ISU and University of Utah partnership aims to combat Idaho’s mental health crisis Presbyterian-UnityPoint merger moves forward St. .’ Mississippi Dept.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Also this week, Rovner interviews Kate Baicker of the University of Chicago about a new paper providing a possible middle ground in the effort to establish universal health insurance coverage in the U.S. But first, this week’s health news. She’s one of the authors of a new paper outlining a new proposal for the U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 13, 2024

. “There were a number of practices used by insurance companies to essentially protect themselves from the costs associated with people who have preexisting conditions,” said Sabrina Corlette , a co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University and an expert on the health insurance marketplace.

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