Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

The good news for health care costs for a family of four in America is that they fell, for the first time in like, ever, in 2020. But like a déjà vu all over again, annual health care costs for a family of four enrolled in a PPO will climb to over $28,000 in 2021, based on the latest 2021 Milliman Medical Index (MMI).

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JULY 11, 2022

Congress has spent months debating an extension of enhanced premium tax credits enacted under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. However, as CHIR's Sabrina Corlette and the Urban Institute's Jason Levitis discuss in this recent Health Affairs Forefront article, the clock is ticking.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 16, 2022

According to the April 29, 2022, notification on the healthcare provider’s website, “We recently discovered unauthorized access to our network occurred between May 31, 2021, and June 1, 2021.” The post Refuah Health Center Alerts 260K Patients About May 2021 Cyberattack appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

AMA: 73% of health insurance markets are highly concentrated. Tue, 09/28/2021 - 11:19.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” ” Sixty-eight percent of provider executives surveyed by HRI said they plan to use more care navigators and coordinators in 2021.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2021

Licensed insurance agents will assist consumers in assessing their best options for these plans for the 2022 Medicare enrollment period which begins 15th October and ends 7th December 2021. For more on Hy-Vee’s growing role in health care, see my previous posts on their efforts, Health@Retail. In the latest J.D.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU of RI) is taking legal action against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) over an August 2021 data breach that affected more than 22,000 individuals.

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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.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2022

Chelan Douglas Health District in East Wenatchee, WA, has announced it was the victim of a cyberattack in July 2021 in which the personal and protected health information of patients was exfiltrated from its systems. A representative for the health district said this was not a ransomware attack.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. As the report concludes, “people’s sentiments and behaviors” with respect to technology in health care “provide no clear answer.”

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Comprehensive Health Services explained in its breach notification letter to the Maine Attorney general that it determined on November 3, 2021, that the personal information of a limited number of individuals employed by one of its customers may have been accessed and stolen in the attack.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Breach Notification Rule places a strict time limit on issuing notifications to individuals whose protected health information has been exposed or impermissibly disclosed. on March 1, 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Protenus has released its 2022 Breach Barometer Report which confirms 2021 was a particularly bad year for healthcare industry data breaches, with more than 50 million healthcare records exposed or compromised in 2021. There were 111 insider incidents in 2021, similar to the 110 incidents in 2019, which is a 26% decrease from 2020.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Suspicious activity was detected within its network on May 12, 2021, with the forensic investigation confirming unauthorized individuals had access to its network for a month between April 20, 2021, and May 17, 2021. During that time, the attackers may have viewed or acquired sensitive patient data. The post U.S.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 25, 2022

With at least six weeks before final numbers are in, the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website is reporting 713 major healthcare data breaches in 2021, an increase of more than 7.5 By the Numbers: Major Healthcare Data Breaches Increase in 2021. million records in 2021.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 15, 2023

FHKC is a state-created entity that offers health and dental insurance to children in Florida between the ages of 5 and 18. FHKC receives Medicaid funds and state funds for providing health insurance programs for children in Florida.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On September 27, 2021, Humana agreed to pay $11.2 million to end claims that the health insurance company denied a group of nurses overtime pay by misclassifying them as exempt employees. By George F. Indest III, J.D., A Wisconsin federal judge approved the.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2023

Affected individuals were notified about the cyberattack in August 2021 and were offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services. The post San Andreas Regional Center Agrees to Settle 2021 Ransomware Attack Lawsuit appeared first on HIPAA Journal. A lawsuit – Lopez, et al.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. In 2021, spending would return to pre-COVID projections. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.”

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

More than 110 executives from more than 100 organizations, including community hospitals, health systems, pediatric hospitals, academic medical centers, rehabilitation hospitals, and rural providers, responded to the survey.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Now that 2021 has arrived, a national election recently completed, and significant changes to the healthcare landscape in America continuing to unfold amidst a pandemic, the time for health data preparation is here. The following is a guest article by Matt Peterson, Executive VP, Client Success and Growth, at Ciox.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On September 27, 2021, Humana agreed to pay $11.2 million to end claims that the health insurance company denied a group of nurses overtime pay by misclassifying them as exempt employees. By George F. Indest III, J.D., A Wisconsin federal judge approved the.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Two pharmaceutical companies bubble up among the 20 fastest-growing brands for 2021 in Morning Consult’s report on the Fastest-Growing Brands of 2021. Morning Consult’s key takeaways were that: 2021 was the year of digital payments, cryptocurrency, and fintechs. Cash App, Mastercard, Chime, and Bitcoin.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 7, 2022

Health insurers reported healthy earnings during the fourth quarter of 2021, thanks in large part to publicly funded programs Medicare and Medicaid. CHIR's Megan Houston reviewed earnings reports for nine major insurers and reports on the key market trends in the health insurance industry.

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SQA

JUNE 10, 2021

SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary #4, 2021. Brazilian Regulators Update Economic Monitoring Requirements for Some Medical Devices, 26 March 2021. The new regulation takes effect on 01 April 2021. ANVISA: The Advances of 2020 in Regulatory Quality Improvement, 31 March 2021.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 18, 2022

This month, we’re ringing in the new year with new health policy research. Continue reading → The post December Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Gallup-West Health surveyed 3,870 U.S. One in two people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

some aspects of “digital transformation” seem not to have fully transformed American healthcare, we learn in HIMSS’s annual 2021 State of Healthcare Report. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

billion from False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases in the federal fiscal year 2021, “the second largest annual total in False Claims Act history” and more than doubling the FCA recoveries for the DOJ from fiscal year 2020. Whistleblowers themselves received $237 million in 2021. billion of the funds collected.

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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. As a first step to protecting incarcerated individuals’ right to health, Congress should repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP).

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 25, 2022

The forensic investigation revealed the email accounts were accessed by unauthorized individuals between April 7, 2021, and June 2, 2021. AHA provided notice about the attack on January 6, 2021. UMC was a victim of a REvil ransomware attack in June 2021 that resulted in the theft of the protected health information of 1.3

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2022

Bako Diagnostics (BakoDx), a Georgia-based provider of laboratory services to healthcare providers, has announced it was the victim of a cyberattack that was discovered on December 28, 2021. The files exfiltrated from its systems included the protected health information of patients.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. And in 2021, the focus on compliance is expected to increase. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) affects thousands of organizations across the […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Chicago’s South Shore Hospital has started notifying 115,670 current and former patients about a December 2021 cyberattack on its network. Suspicious activity was identified on its network on December 10, 2021, and prompt action was taken to contain the incident.

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Late in the afternoon on December 23, 2022, the Administration issued Affordable Care Act FAQ #56 , and in doing so gave a little holiday gift to all group health plans nationwide. This deadline and enforcement relief is transitional and only applies to the 2020 and 2021 calendar year submissions that were originally due on December 27, 2022.

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