Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The ACA and temporary pandemic-era policies such as the Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 , which allowed continuous Medicaid enrollment during the public health emergency (PHE), has helped to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care coverage – and proved to be important during COVID-19 to increase health care access.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The pandemic has also led to economic decline that, seven weeks before the 2020 elections in America, is top-of-mind for health citizens with the virus-crisis itself receding to second place, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation September 2020 Health Tracking Poll. President in 2020. KFF polled 1,199 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” ” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. That theme was given to us in the fourth quarter of 2019, when initial planning for ATA 2020 had begun. economy shed millions of jobs — many tied to health insurance coverage.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2022

Care That Matches Your Needs. Grow Therapy was started in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic started because its founders knew that nearly 70% of therapists do not accept insurance due to administrative burdens like all of the paperwork involved to file a claim.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week. 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. lacked health insurance.

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Innovaare Compliance

JANUARY 19, 2021

The CMS has increased the weight of patient experience measures, which are determined by CAHPS as well as member complaints, health care access, members choosing to leave the plan, appeals, and call center measures, all of which reflect overall member experience. Stars in 2020; that number dropped to 63 plans in 2021.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Watch for calls among younger voters to support, broadly writ, universal health care access. This issue, coupled with the fastest-growing line item in the consumer budget — education (and especially the growing student loan debt burden) will motivate younger voters to the polls in 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2023

MedWand Solutions is not a newcomer to CES: I met up with the pioneering company at CES 2020 when the technology earned a CES Innovation Award and was dubbed “Last Gadget Standing” in the and was also dubbed a “Star Trek-like Tricorder. MedWand is collaborating with AT&T, HP and Oracle on this initiative.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

The focus will shift from increasing modes of access to those who already have adequate access, to opening new channels for those who are underserved. Financial health must be recognized as inseparable from health. In 2022, 31% of people reported they chose to defer care, due to cost concerns.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

It envisions enhanced coordination, integration, and information exchange among managed care plans (MCPs); physical, behavioral, community-based, and social service providers; and county agencies. In 2015, DHCS launched the WPC Pilots as part of its Medi-Cal 2020 Section 1115 Demonstration.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Over a few years leading up to the COVID-19 emergence in early 2020, large employers had begun to adopt telemedicine in health plan benefits for workers, noted by the Business Group on Health’s membership surveys. The coronavirus pandemic has fast-tracked telehealth in the U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

This is where telehealth has filled the gap for demand, as the supply of therapists has been poorly distributed and, at the same time, taboo for getting care declined with the mainstreaming acceptance that mental health is embedded in overall health and well-being.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

But since this critical care area has been overlooked for too long, it has yet to reach the same level of accessibility other specialties offer. For the Medicaid population, receiving this type of care is more challenging and increasingly necessary. The CDC found that in 2020, 18.4%

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

that’s the prime problem cited by 55% of Americans one year ago in an Ipsos survey, In the UK, the NHS is primarily funded through taxation of the people, ensuring and insuring every health citizen’s health care access. In the U.S.,

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people. Carceral health care occurs within a regulatory vacuum.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Some people remark about 2020 being a “lost year” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. life expectancy at birth fell by one full year over the first half of 2020 compared with 2019, to 77.8 years in the first half of 2020, up from 5.1 If you were born black in 2020, you would on average have lost 2.7

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

Women have been more likely to lose jobs in the economic downturn, lose hours of work resulting in lower pay, and as a result of some workers obtaining health insurance through a job, and/or have lost health insurance and thus access to health care services.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The phrase, “burden of health care,” has two usual meanings: one, to do with the massive chronic care burden, and the other, involving costs. health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

We must guard against exacerbating health disparities with these sorts of AI applications in health and medical care. District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Last year’s U.S. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

MGH receives $50 million donation to support health care training. hospital readmission rates increased in 2020, finds report. Henry Ford Health System gets new name, logo in rebranding campaign. MDHHS reorganizes to better coordinate behavioral health services. Here’s what you need to know. WASHINGTON.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Beyond current employees, companies in health care are also looking to hire workers with skills to support new capabilities and product offerings. Clearly, digital transformation is top-of-mind for healthcare organizations pondering their workforce strategies for 2020. Their poll of consumers found that 7 in 10 U.S.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

New report brings grim statistic to Mississippi maternal health UMMC program provides mental health care for moms Faith, medical leaders to discuss expanding health care access at Gov. Months later, apparently only a third qualify.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

New report brings grim statistic to Mississippi maternal health UMMC program provides mental health care for moms Faith, medical leaders to discuss expanding health care access at Gov. Months later, apparently only a third qualify.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve been tracking the growing retail health ecosystem for over a decade, writing in 2009 about Costco’s envisioning “health care in every pot.” This began before the pandemic, but C-stores really grew retail space for health/care in 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

We must guard against exacerbating health disparities with these sorts of AI applications in health and medical care. District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Last year’s U.S. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

We must guard against exacerbating health disparities with these sorts of AI applications in health and medical care. District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. A recent U.S. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

We must guard against exacerbating health disparities with these sorts of AI applications in health and medical care. District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. A recent U.S. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

We must guard against exacerbating health disparities with these sorts of AI applications in health and medical care. District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. This week’s news covering a U.S. s, birthday. .

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 20, 2024

presence Beth Israel Lahey Health reports $249M operating loss, -2.8% margin in FY 2024 Brown University Health, formerly Lifespan, eyes expansion into Mass. operating loss, -10.2%

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Hall Render

JULY 1, 2022

Mobile medical clinic expands health care access on Moloka?i. The “Great Resignation” comes to health care jobs in Idaho. Idaho first responders receive mental health training to understand the impacts stress and trauma have on the body. Luke’s, DMVA Partner to Improve Mental Health Care Access.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 21, 2022

‘The pandemic we were afraid of in 2020’: Some patients dying because Massachusetts hospitals at capacity. Trinity Health Foundation prepares for new hospital. North Dakota’s COVID-19 positivity rate sets record, surpasses peak of fall 2020 surge. Maryland nurses say license delays started before cyberattack.

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Alameddin Named All of Us Arizona Health Champion for Her Work to Improve Health Care Accessibility, Equity. Arkansas health care group asks to intervene, says overturning lawsuit could lead to higher drug prices for patients. Arkansas Health Network Saved Members $16.8M CALIFORNIA.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2020

voters to the election polls…including health care providers. Based on the volume and intensity of medical professional societies’ editorials on the 2020 Presidential Election, we may be in an inflection-curve moment for greater clinician engagement in politics as doctors and nurses take claim of their health citizenship.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 19, 2024

Workers at another D.C. Here’s how much more they’ll be paying St.

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