Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Those costs are shown in the household expenditure table here, illustrating that by 2018, the median household expenditures in the U.S. Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. That is, government spending.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. Instead, attending to health and wellbeing, staying true to an exercise regime, maintaining good nutrition, and managing stress top U.S. health-insured adults in July 2018.

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The Health Law Firm

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Last year (2018) the government collected over $27million in fines levied on health care providers and other covered entities for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy violations. By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2019

adults in September 2019 on issues concerning health care costs, shopping, value, saving and spending. points in 2018 to 57.9 While two-thirds of consumers say they understand their insurance coverage, only one-half of them can correctly answer questions about the definition of premiums and deductibles. households.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The agencies received millions of dollars in funding from Medicaid, which is funded in part by the federal government, and much of that money was meant to pay the wages and benefits of their aides. It can also include health insurance, pension plans, or educational assistance. million to the Unites States and $2.4

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

BACKGROUND The Proposed Rule is the latest in a long line of federal legislation and rulemakings governing the conscience rights of healthcare providers and entities. The Church Amendments In the 1970s, the federal government enacted the Church Amendments, 42 U.S.C.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Highmark Health, Google Cloud , and League unveiled their collaboration on an interoperable, digital health platform that makes it simple for individuals to navigate healthcare and connect to the right tools and resources when and where they need them. Twilio, Healthfirst Launch CDP for Health Plans and Providers.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Is anyone still using Microsoft Health Vault (RIP: 2007–2019)? How did giants like JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon perform with Haven (RIP: 2018 – 2021)? He has more than 25 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience in the American and international health technology and insurance industry.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Add into this picture a CCS Insight analyst’s forecast last week that Apple could enter the health insurance market in 2024. Consumers will be facing greater medical price inflation in 2023 for health insurance plans, based on the latest forecast from WTW.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 29, 2022

” Well beyond our individual genetic codes, our health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop… also well beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices in-between appointments, and often paid-for out-of-pocket quite separate from peoples’ health insurance plans. government would have saved $2.6

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

I greatly appreciated the opportunity today to attend a luncheon at the HX360 meeting which convened as part of the 2018 HIMSS Conference. There’s an old saw that the US government is an insurance company with an army” quips @PaulKrugman @HIMSS #HIMSS18 #HX360 #Healthinsurance #Medicare #Healthcare #Healthcosts.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2019

In June 2018, the FCC rolled back net neutrality, a policy that President Obama had put in place. I’ve asserted for many years that connectivity and broadband are a social determinant of health. Federal government shutdown. In no particular order… Where was the Chairman of the FCC?

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season. Now consider a vision/optical insurance plan entering the retailing side of the business.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The virtual trial, to be sure, is not a new concept: One team of researchers counted more than 1,100 trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov employing connected digital products for remote data collection in both 2017 and 2018, the organization observed. " Healthcare organizations also need to convene regional collaborations, HRI said.

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Health Law RX

MARCH 27, 2023

For example, between 2017 and 2018, BetterHelp allegedly provided Facebook with lists of over 7 million consumers’ email addresses, and Facebook then matched over 4 million of these consumers with their Facebook accounts, targeting these individuals and similar users with advertisements. Evaluate your compliance staffing needs.

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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.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2018

Universal health care was covered in a section on 28 April 2018, and coverage on financial inclusion was bundled into the 5th May edition. ” At the time, this was one of the world’s biggest public-sector financed health plan.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 25, 2022

Protected health information (PHI) from more than 45.7 This is the second-largest number of records reported breached on the government site since 2015. The 2015 total included the largest single healthcare data breach on record – health insurer Anthem’s 77.8 Cyber insurance can certainly lessen the blow.”.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Acquisition of BCBSLA Paused a Second Time It was the biggest health care deal in Louisiana history.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Despite gloomy headlines and the seemingly harrowing declines in valuation, it’s important to not lose sight of the steady climb in valuations since the beginning of 2018. Compared to the period between Jan 2018 – March 2020, deal volume and value in the US are up by 8% and 45% respectively.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2018, providers and payers released a consensus statement that called for improvements, and in 2019, the ONC leader had some choice words. 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.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Enrollee Participation in Plan Governance (§ 422.107). CMS believes its proposals would improve Federal and State oversight of certain D-SNPs (and their affiliated MCOs) through greater information-sharing among government regulators. Key provisions of the Proposed Rule are summarized below. Comments are due by March 7, 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 24, 2023

The False Claims Amendment Act in 1986 lowered the bar for proof of fraud and increased the fines the OIG could impose, while the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) in 1996 established the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) Program.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

federal government’s oversight wheels began to grind into a different gear, signaling that they did not like that a Chinese firm was gaining such access to U.S. Following a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the government mandated that iCarbonX divest its ownership in PLM. But the U.S.

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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

MAY 22, 2018

What could $28,166 buy you in 2018? Welcome to this year’s edition of the Milliman Medical Index (MMI), one of the most important forecasts of the year in the world of the Health Populi blog and THINK-Health universe. Employees’ share of health care costs now reach 44% of that $26,144. A new car?

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 6, 2022

For the second time in three years, Espinosa faces the prospect of losing permission to work, which would cost him not only his job providing tech support at a software company, but also his health insurance. Without health insurance, his daughter would lose her eligibility for transplants.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

National health spending in the U.S. every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Let me begin with a quote from the first couple of pages that sums up how integral health care is to the larger U.S. macroeconomy: “Because health care spending in the United States currently accounts for about one-sixth of the nation’s gross domestic product, those changes could significantly affect the overall U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The goal of the research was to study the lifestyle behaviors of staff working in three federal agencies to create health-risk profiles of government employees in the Bureau of Printing, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the DHHS itself.

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Health Law Gurus

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The report issued on December 3, 2018, aligns with the position on healthcare reform the Trump administration has taken and announced since Trump’s election. This healthcare manifesto is a blueprint to reform the delivery of care and consumer choice by relaxing state and federal laws.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

This is what happened to pharma stock prices on Friday after President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar outlined their new policies focusing on prescription drug prices. Smart Pharmaceuticals Index (NQSSPH) from May 11, 2018, the date when POTUS and Secretary Azar made their announcement.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

Be prepared to drive to deliver Mount Sinai launches regenerative medicine outpost to translate research into medicines Northwell marketing chief joins Ad Council board Ribbon cut at Watertown’s new mental health urgent care Surgical communication platform raises $4.2

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Hall Render

MARCH 17, 2023

NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T in Indiana aging-in-place work. nursing home Massachusetts hospitals spent $1.5B in Indiana aging-in-place work. The office hasn’t moved. Why is UNC now charging more?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment. The nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain signed a deal to combine with one of the top three health insurance companies.

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