2021 COVID-19 Health Care Access 
Bill of Health
JANUARY 26, 2022
Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. In this context, policy efforts like the Humane Correctional Health Care Act (H.R.3514)
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, large employees have many concerns about worker and dependents’ health.
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Health Populi
AUGUST 29, 2022
This is our annual go-to study guiding us on the private sector’s big thinking about health care plans and investments on workers’ behalf. The first line chart illustrates how this phenomenon shot up in importance for large companies between 2021 and 2022.
Innovaare Compliance
JANUARY 19, 2021
It has become evident by changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Star Rating formulas over the past several years—and especially with changes implemented for the 2021 Plan Year—that member experience and medication adherence is of utmost importance to the CMS. Medicare Star Ratings 2021 Changes.
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021. than on white people.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.
Jane Sarashon
JULY 18, 2024
This graph diagrams utilization, unit cost, and cost as a percent of overall medical cost trend: note that by the middle of 2023, GLP-1 drug costs for Group health plan members comprised 13.6% in 2021 to 7.3 in 2021 rising to $23.16 of a major pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company, shown in the third bar.
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