Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

In other words, both convicted individuals and those still presumed innocent are stripped of their access to the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Estelle v. 3514 and S.2628

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2019

I’ve asserted for many years that connectivity and broadband are a social determinant of health. Without online access, people can’t seek jobs, get educated, enroll in health insurance, socially connect with other people, and seek health information for self-care or diagnosed conditions on WebMD or “Dr.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). The Milliman MMI team has updated the methodology for the Index; the chart shown here is my own, recognizing that the calculations and assumptions beneath the 2019 data point differ from previous years. Milliman has changed the methodology for the 2019 MMI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Bill of Health

MAY 19, 2022

from 2018-2019. Therapeutic Value Assessments of Novel Medicines in the US and Europe, 2018-2019. Hospital-Administered Cancer Therapy Prices for Patients With Private Health Insurance. The post Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy appeared first on Bill of Health. JAMA Oncol. JAMA Netw Open.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

They rose 26%, and general price inflation by 20%, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey on employer-sponsored benefits for 2019 released yesterday. Because this is the Health Populi blog, my lens is aimed in the KFF report on consumer-facing issues. Expect health care costs to rank a top issue driving U.S.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Before joining BCGDV, they practised as medical doctors or worked in industries such as health insurance, medtech or pharma”, the company spokesperson informed Healthcare IT News. "As of January 2021, US adults had reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder that showed a four-fold increase from 2019.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

This is what rationing health care looks like in America: one in two people in families dealing with a chronic health condition have difficulty affording paying medial bills before meeting a deductible, unexpected medical bills, co-payments for prescription drugs, co-payments for physician visits, and/or their monthly health insurance premium.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As Why a World Health Day? you may be asking.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The HIPAA-compliant Skills capabilities were launched in 2019 to help patients connect with hospitals and health insurers using Alexa.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Before joining BCGDV, they practised as medical doctors or worked in industries such as health insurance, medtech or pharma”, the company spokesperson informed Healthcare IT News. "As of January 2021, US adults had reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder that showed a four-fold increase from 2019.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. An October 2019 CBS News Poll on how Americans feel about U.S. Men vs. women.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Digital therapeutics, or Digital Health Applications (DiGA), are apps for the detection, monitoring, treatment, or alleviation of medical conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

For the report, RAND researchers examined insurance claims from more than six million people with employer-based health insurance in 2019 and 2020. They examined the number of care encounters and types of services received by these enrollees from January 2019 through July 2020.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

" That all changed in late 2019 when the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) released a sizable expression of interest funding contribution, to which the Labatt Family School of Nursing decided to apply and propose a two-armed study to explore homelessness in Canada using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2020

million services were delivered via telehealth in Medicare and in the Children's Health Insurance Program from March through June. Data released this past week from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that more than 34.5 Furthermore, given that claims lag, data for recent months is likely to be adjusted upward.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2023

” HealthEdge’s latest research into health consumers’ perspectives finds peoples’ satisfaction with their health insurance plans lacking, with members seeking easier access their personal health information, high levels of service, and rewards for healthy behaviors.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2019

For years, Alegeus found that patients were indeed growing those consumer health muscles to save and shop for health care. In 2019, it appears that patients have backslid, according to the 2019 Healthcare Consumerism Index from Alegeus. The first chart shows that the 2019 Index fell from 60.1 households.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

times a day per year — versus other insured customers with traditional health insurance (that is 576 times a year versus 1 to 2 times). The financial bottom line is that participants in the program experienced 30% lower hospitalization costs versus other insureds, and appear to live many years longer than others.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 19, 2022

million settlement proposed by Solara Medical Supplies to resolve a class action lawsuit related to a 2019 data breach has received preliminary approval from the court. The plaintiffs alleged Solara Medical Supplies was negligent for failing to prevent the breach.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

in 2019, the NIH invested $1.9 It will also be essential to develop strategies to minimize barriers, such as health insurance and access to the health care system. Another concern is that, given the limited funding allocated towards food and nutrition (e.g.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Among stresses facing people at least 50 years of age, health care costs rank top of mind compared with other issues like long-term care, health insurance, Social Security, taxes, and being read to retire. This third chart comes from the BofA 2019 Workplace Benefits Report based on the bank’s poll of 996 U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Now that the 2019 health insurance Open Enrollment period has concluded, healthcare industry stakeholders are watching closely for any shifts in consumer behavior regarding enrollment and the overall uninsured rate.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. One-half said they weren’t confident in their ability to afford health insurance in or near retirement.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

. – was filed in the Arizona Superior Court against Magellan Health Inc. and Magellan RX Management, LLC on behalf of patients whose protected health information was exposed in a May 2019 phishing attack. The plaintiffs also took issue with how Magellan Health handled the data breach and the delay in issuing notifications.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. But Castlight expects a flat-line in PMPM spending for 2022, leveling out at $4,232 per member/per month for commercially-insured employees.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The FDA approved S-ketamine to treat depression in 2019. For example, Field Trip Health was a prominent early provider in this field, offering six-session packages of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for around $5,000. Yet, insurance coverage alone is an imperfect solution because millions of Americans have no health insurance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2019

Medicine Delivery – medication will be delivered to patients with absolute data security as Samitivej adheres to the data protection standards mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The consultation fee is 500 baht (approx.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

All categories of health care costs were lower in 2020 versus 2019, with the exception of prescription drugs. The team also calculated annual health care costs per individual, which are expected to be $6,516 in 2021, about 7.6% higher than in 2020. This study analyzed the assessments of 149,290 U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 13, 2020

April Hale, of Merkel, Texas, and Len Cline, of Satsuma, Florida, filed a class-action complaint against Teladoc on July 8, accusing the company of contracting with Health Insurance Innovations to sell insurance products on its behalf.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 19, 2023

Kaiser Permanente has been fined $450,000 by the California Department of Managed Care (CDMC) for impermissibly disclosing the confidential and protected health information (PHI) of up to 167,095 health plan members. As a result of that failure to act, a further 175,000 mailings were potentially sent to incorrect addresses.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To manage personal health finances, patients-as-payors are increasingly willing to face trade-offs and change personal behaviors to lower health care costs, based on research in The Future of Health Care Study from USC’s Center for the Digital Future. The Center analyzed the perspectives of 1,000 U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Hackers gained access to a single file server housing files that contained patients’ protected health information such as names, contact information, insurance claim information, date(s) of service, medical bill account number, and health insurance informa­tion.

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