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. That’s the demand side.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients have experienced at least one health insurance related barrier in the past two years, and 4 in 10 of those people said their health got worse as a result of that care-barrier. Note the methodologies deployed for the three polls: For the consumer survey, Morning Consult surveyed 1,502 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

Among conditions, diabetes care is the most-noted area of focus for virtual services. Expect musculoskeletal care management to gain more attention in a year, looking to more implementation by 2022. The overwhelming majority of employers are already attending to financial wellness and health care access and literacy.

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Jane Sarashon

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is true across all income categories, from those earning under $24,000 a year to the well-off raking in $180K or more, we learn in Gallup’s poll conducted with West Health, finding that Majorities of people rank cost and equity of U.S. adults in late June 2022. — will vote on health care issues beyond Dobbs/Roe v.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I referred to that experience here in Health Populi several years ago when discussing health care access and transparency. There are several examples going back to Boston University in 2022, as one of many proliferating across college campuses across the U.S. Wade in June, 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

Financial health must be recognized as inseparable from health. From 2020 to 2022, consumers were more likely to receive the care they needed, but cost concerns have become more common than health concerns. In 2022, 31% of people reported they chose to defer care, due to cost concerns.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

1] In addition to the challenges presented by provider shortages, even when patients are able to locate an available mental health provider, many are hesitant to engage in treatment due to cost uncertainties, which often arise due to limited availability for in-network care and the subsequent need to seek out-of-network care. [2]

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

In September 2022, Judge O’Connor ruled it unconstitutional for the ACA to require health plans to cover preventive services. Health Populi’s Hot Points: By late January, one-in-two U.S. adults said they had delayed or skipped medical care due to cost — including preventive services.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Today’s patients want seamless, holistic, and reliable health care access, self-service, and communication. They want to manage their own health affairs online—with a click or a swipe—much like they buy goods on Amazon, order transportation on Uber, or book a hotel room on Expedia. Providers are feeling the squeeze.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

In December 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the California Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS’) request for a five-year extension of its Medicaid section 1115 demonstration and a five-year extension of its Medicaid managed care section 1915(b) waiver.

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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. The following section provides a synopsis of the changes for 2021.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 10, 2023

a hospital that closed after January 1, 2022). The Distressed Hospital Loan Program will be administered by the Department of Health Care Access and Information (“DHCAI”). DHCAI is required to develop a methodology to evaluate the potential eligibility of at-risk hospitals for Distressed Hospital Loan Program loans.

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Health Care Law Brief

APRIL 12, 2023

The Final Rule adopts a host of reforms aimed at improving health care access, quality, and equity for Medicare beneficiaries that receive coverage through Part C (“Medicare Advantage” or “MA”) and prescription drug benefits through Part D. 79452 (2022)). Parts 417, 422, 423, 455, and 460. 405.902).

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Health Care Law Brief

AUGUST 10, 2023

On July 27, 2023, California’s Office of Health Care Access and Information (the “ Office ”) released its long-awaited proposed regulations on the notice requirements for material health care transactions in California.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 30, 2023

Zaslavsky, who has served as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer since December 2022, will assume this role effective June 26, 2023, replacing Mick Ruxin, M.D., Theralink Technologies, Inc. appoints Faith Zaslavsky as its new Chief Executive Officer. who will transition to Theralink’s Chief Medical Officer.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Climate change and health inequalities in the UK Climate change causes extreme weather events that impact health. endured record high temperatures o f 40°C (104°F) in the summer of 2022, there were approximately 3,000 more deaths in people over 65 in England and Wales. has recently launched a campaign on the right to health.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

growth for group health insurance plans is the highest rate of medical cost trend growth since 2012. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Affording health care is a greater challenge for more Americans these days, the latest West Health-Gallup Health Care Affordability Index research revealed this week.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. In 2022, Perrigo, maker of the Opill contraceptive, applied for the prescription medicine to be offered over-the-counter.

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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. side of the health policy pond, noting public dissatisfaction among U.S. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. along with health disparities and inequities.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In June 2022, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued two guidances reaffirming privacy protections guaranteed by HIPAA. New federal bills are needed to address the privacy gaps left by HIPAA and the challenges in reproductive health care access, even under EMTALA.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Many areas have also faced critical staff shortages , which impacted the delivery of safe care and safety net services. By the end of 2022, nearly 1.7 Unfortunately, the unprecedented low rate of uninsurance in 2022, has proved temporary. urgently needs a rights-based approach to health.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 14, 2023

I support ECRI’s call-out of this challenge as a patient as well as provider safety issue, given the politicization of women’s health care access which has emerged a national as well as State-level crisis for women and the people who love us.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Wiley , Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Program at UCLA Law. Wiley The Supreme Court’s decisions have important and long-lasting effects on health care access, the public’s health, health equity, and the power of communities to create healthier living and working conditions.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 10, 2022

” As of mid-May 2022, most people in the U.S. adults in May 2022 for the study. For medical care, 62% of those still worried about the coronavirus in May 2022 believed that services delivered through telehealth would be a good thing to continue beyond the pandemic era. With only 1 in 10 people in the U.S.

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Hall Render

JUNE 7, 2024

Melhem Solh Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center becomes a Level I trauma center This initiative at Mercer hopes to bolster pediatric health How a small Georgia town is feeling the rural health care crisis HAWAII Executive Insight: Ching Jen Lum funds Kahala Nui’s mission to help Hawaii seniors Kaiser Permanente provides grants for behavioral (..)

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Hall Render

MAY 17, 2024

NATIONAL A deep dive into health system and health plan Q1 earnings Amazon building ‘modern pharmacy’ of the future: Medical Officer Breaking down the FTC noncompete ban, its impact on healthcare CISA, HHS warn healthcare of Black Basta ransomware attacks CMS extends Medicaid waivers to 2025 Could providers be liable in Change outage?

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Tammany Health System create new residency program CHRISTUS nationally recognized for high-quality heart care Behind Ochsner LSU Health’s multimillion-dollar tech upgrades MAINE Millinocket hospital schedules renovation after $3.5M medical school to revamp philanthropic efforts Sage Health opening 3 central Md.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Tammany Health System create new residency program CHRISTUS nationally recognized for high-quality heart care Behind Ochsner LSU Health’s multimillion-dollar tech upgrades MAINE Millinocket hospital schedules renovation after $3.5M medical school to revamp philanthropic efforts Sage Health opening 3 central Md.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Care Taps Health Net Exec as New CEO COLORADO Aurora’s Fitzsimons plans development opportunities on 60 acres Boulder drug discovery co. for maternity care Healthcare Shifts Driving Demand For Outpatient Facilities In Denver Insider Breach, Email Attacks Net $1.7M 3 in the U.S.

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Hall Render

JULY 28, 2023

million for rural hospital expansion Hospices in Arizona & other states receive scrutiny over concerns of fraud, waste & abuse Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square Foot Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Firefighters oppose Banner’s planned $400M hospital There’s a growing nurse shortage in Arizona.

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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

APRIL 14, 2023

NATIONAL 94% of Organizations Experienced a Cyberattack in 2022 AHA blog: Strengthening crisis management in rural health care Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 national emergency Cancer drug shortages are creating dire circumstances for some patients CMS Releases FY24 IPPS Proposed Rule, Seeks to Boost Rates by 2.8%

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Mary’s hospitals in $100M deal University of California reaches $975M deal to buy 4 hospitals from Tenet University of the Pacific doubles size of physician assistant program with new building in Oak Park How a new California agency aims to cap your health care costs California health care workers won a path to $25 minimum wage.

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Outstanding Women in Business 2022: Get to know Carmen Neuberger of Phoenix Children’s. Health officials encouraged, cautious about current COVID trends. Health at the Capitol Week 9 (March 18, 2022). New report recommends Wichita VA adds inpatient mental health services, two new satellite clinics.

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Hall Render

MARCH 1, 2024

Elizabeth Healthcare makes leadership team changes These are Louisville’s Health Care Heroes UofL Health wants to build new cancer center, needs $25 million from Kentucky General Assembly Grant focuses on health care access for children in Eastern Ky. Luke’s hospital to undergo $4.2

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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. Noble Health presents key findings of Hospital feasibility study.

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