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Large Employers’ Focus on Prescription Drugs: Costs, Coupons and Communication

Health Populi

Employers cited several main tactics to address coupon cards looking forward from 2019 to 2022. One-third of employers were already doing this in 2019, with another 20% adding in 2020 and 16% considering for 2021-22. Federal government Blueprint for reducing prescription drug costs. Across party identification, U.S.

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The Health Insurance Premium for a Family Averages $25,572 in 2024 – KFF’s Annual Update on Employer-Sponsored Benefits

Health Populi

Prescription drugs (and costs) are on the minds of policymakers and legislators as well as prescribers, pharma companies, and payers — employers, government plans, health insurers and, of course, patients who co-pay or c0-share the costs of medicines. In 2024, the average patient share amounts are shown in Figure 9.6

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CMS Begins Option to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

Healthcare Law Blog

Mothers with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (“FPL”) in states which have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) are eligible to remain covered by Medicaid and those with incomes above 138% FPL may be eligible to qualify for subsidized coverage through the ACA marketplace. Peterson, et. 3] Madeline Y.

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

Kaiser Health News

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. Other hospitals declined to comment or did not respond to emails.

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

“While many Americans have benefitted from government assistance during the pandemic, the money is quickly running out,” doxo observed in data about peoples’ receipt and use of CARES Act funding. The last chapter of HealthConsuming, published in 2019, asked whether U.S. Two-thirds of people do not believe the U.S.

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Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

Health Populi

In the 2019 dictionary next to the word “stress,” we would find variations of a definition all deriving from Americans’ current worries about their money, the economy, and health care costs…then, family responsibilities and jobs. The 7th Annual U.S.

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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. Ultimately, they synthesize into capital access and funding, providing services to attract and treat patients, and affiliate with larger systems as well as government control. hospitals are in poor fiscal health.

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