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. could barely be covered by median household income.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Life expectancy in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

Healthcare — availability and affordability — is a more intense worry for Americans in March 2018 than crime and violence, Federal spending, guns, drug use, and hunger and homelessness. were worried about the economy, and 23% about unemployment, in March 2018. adults 18 and over between 1st-8th March 2018.

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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

JUNE 28, 2021

. — in particular, impacts on mental health, access to care, and health equity and d isparities the latter of which have been a research focus from the initiation of this research. I participated with the Aetna Foundation and team on examining the health equity aspects of this study in 2018, linked here.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2020

lost their job as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of whom lost health insurance and others anxious their health coverage will be threatened, revealed in a survey from The Commonwealth Fund published on April 21, 2020. One in three working age people in the U.S. adults 18 to 64 years of age between 8-13 April 2020.

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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. " “Some private insurers stepped in to help, too,” they added.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

The mainstreaming of SDoH speaks to the awareness that health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn and shop… beyond the health”care” system of hospitals, doctors’ offices, and prescription drug dispensaries. adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Health insurers in the state are now allowed to offer plans with limited benefits, escaping the rules for plans in the Affordable Care Act that provided for a list of covered benefits. As I reflect on this tale of two States as I’m composing, for another publication, a treatise on what the U.S. healthcare.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

But while there’s majority support for universal health care, we should think broadly about this concept at this moment. Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

I covered the launch of the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer across all industries here in Health Populi in January 2018 , when this year’s annual report was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos as it is each year. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Together, they transcend health politics and converge on a single health policy: that is, to “ensure that every single American has access to quality, affordable health care regardless of health status, social need, or income.” Shall we just say: “it’s about the health care, stupid?”

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The regulations may provide an opportunity for health insurers to attract new members – and retain existing ones – with hearing loss. MarkeTrak 10:Hearing Aids in an Era of Disruption and DTC/OTC Devices, [link] Goman, Adele M, Am J Public Health 2016 Oct;106(10):1820-2. Expanding membership. million U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

trillion to national healthcare spending in 2018. This week, Kaiser Family Foundation published its 2018 study into employer-sponsored benefits, finding that the average cost is about $20,000 this year. trillion in 2018. The economic argument for the MedModular innovation in the U.S. is compelling. trillion a year.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Disparities in Americans’ health vary among people living in each of the 50 states. These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance. Ultimately, the Fund asserts, where you live matters.

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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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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

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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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary , the first use of the phrase “health insurance” occurred in 1901. Consulting Noah Webster….and

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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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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2018

Another important policy that embeds health for the nation would be for States and local governments to identify opportunities to use agriculture, education, transportation, tax, and zoning approaches that would bake health into the policies. And that benefits all Americans for public health and well-being.

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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.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2022

But the new benefit for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid health insurance program, has been delayed twice as the state and doulas — nonmedical workers who help parents before, during, and after birth — haggle over how much they should get paid.

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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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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. The base wage must be paid in cash. million to the Unites States and $2.4

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices. Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019.

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Jane Sarashon

JUNE 1, 2022

For my previous write-ups of the MMI, here are some links to check out… MMI 2021 The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021. 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

People with diabetes have, by definition, a pre-existing condition when they seek health insurance. The impact of eliminating this facet of the law would take a huge toll on the diabetes community’s financial health and access to services.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2018

parents are sobering up to the risks of social mobility in America for their children: in 2018, 51% of U.S. This is unique compared with people living in other OECD countries, only 37% of whom agree with the education statement. In the U.S., social mobility is not evenly distributed across the generations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2018

the chronic disease burden takes a massive toll on both public health and mortality, accounting for 7 in 10 deaths in America each year. That personal health toll comes at a high price and proportion of national health expenditures. Chronic diseases are what kill most people in the world. In the U.S.,

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity. The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. POTTSTOWN, Pa. —

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

The original request for records was submitted in writing by a former ACPM patient on November 13, 2018. The patient stated that he needed the requested medical records to appeal an unfavorable decision made by his health insurance company for the payment of a bill related to treatment provided by ACPM. Federal code 45 C.F.R.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Oddly, even with its place in the general public’s lexicon, telemedicine utilization is still rather low. According to Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of US Physicians , only 23% of patients have had video visits and just 14% of physicians have video visit capability. Original Source.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

2018 midterm elections. That is sound advice as we all head to the polls today, 6th November 2018…because every vote counts. Think unity, think community, think health. The post Vote As If Your Health Depended Upon It; Learning from Governor Kasich on Voting Day 2018 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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