Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

Many health citizens in the U.S. would likely skip receiving preventive health care services if the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage for them goes away, a Morning Consult survey found. One of the key benefits embedded in the ACA was “free” without co-pay shares for preventive care.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The NIH crafted one for patients enrolled in clinical trials, the American Hospital Association served one up in 1973, and many individual health providers like the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ( aka Penn Medicine) have developed patient bills of rights for consumers entering their hospital systems.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Key Takeaways Driving Data Standardization through USCDI+ NCQA is actively working with federal agencies like the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ( ASTP/ONC ) to advance US Core Data for Interoperability ( USCDI ) and its expanded versions like USCDI+, which include data sets for quality, public health, and maternal health.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires at the end of this week, with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expected to renew the PHE once more to extend through mid-July. By Cathy Zhang.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. As COVID-19 has re-shaped us as consumers in retail, we are re-shaping as health consumers, too, as well as health citizens via “omni-channel voting” whether via absentee, mail-in, or in-person.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

And keeping a job usually means holding on to health insurance when the employee has been receiving it at work. Given the frailty of the ACA health insurance marketplaces (which was not addressed in the recent Congressional budget deal , much to Sen. Healthcare costs are bundled into household economics.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TraunsUnion study found that more younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Idaho’s new health insurance rules compel new plans to cover emergency care, hospital admissions, outpatient services, mental health and substance abuse, prescription drugs, rehab, lab and preventive care. There are other allowed exclusions, limits, and pricing differentials, as well.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

Coupled with these findings from Patientco ( which recently won the “Best in KLAS” award for patient financial engagement platforms), an article in JAMA Network Open published this week (dated June 1, 2021) looks at access to care, cost of care, and satisfaction with care among adults with private and public health insurance in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

On a widespread basis, doctors and nurses are being gagged and muzzled by administrators for expressing their concerns, and penalized or even fired when they do speak out… The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will go down as the worst public health disaster in the history of the country.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TransUnion study found that younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Move care to the home via telehealth, enabled through net-neutral broadband, can help if we treat connectivity as a social determinant/public utility the way public health looks at clean air and clean water. Consumers who use more primary care can lower healthcare costs, as this blog in Health Affairs pointed out this week.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 9, 2023

An opportunity to reframe, regroup, and refocus  Now that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is well behind us, we have an opportunity to reframe patient expectations – and regroup and refocus on compliance-related patient care needs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

At the same time, Colombia resolved a 50-year civil war-type conflict, La Violencia, in 2016, leaving the nation scarred physically and mentally to deal with post-traumatic stress and a public health crisis for mental health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

health care in terms of exposure to COVID-19 and subsequent outcomes, with access to medical care and mortality rates negatively impacting people of color to a greater extent than White Americans. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed deep cracks and inequities in U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2023

public does not want politicians to “up-end” government-funded health programs, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s March 2023 Health Tracking Poll. A majority of the U.S. voters ages 18 and over.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

The daily life of a person managing diabetes feels many costs: at work, on relationships, at play, during sleep, on time, on mental health, and to be sure, on personal finances. The True Cost of Diabetes report from Upwell details the many tolls on the person with diabetes.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 In the third quarter of 2020, some $4 billion was invested in U.S.

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American Medical Compliance

MARCH 13, 2025

Compliance of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) reinforces this by prohibiting discrimination and holding healthcare providers accountable for fostering an inclusive environment. Health Insurance Providers : Companies providing health coverage plans. Click here.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

The last chart from the Commonwealth Fund 2022 State Scorecard talks about the rate of uninsurance by state — think ZIP code or personal GPS — calling out the fact that a dozen Governors did not expand Medicaid to accommodate ACA health plan enrollment for their health citizens.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. health consumers would claim their health citizenship.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

. “Unfortunately, pretty much in every regard, the program has been a failure,” said Andrew Ryan , a professor of health care management at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, who has published extensively on the program. .

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). Between 2013 and 2016, about 530,000 bankruptcies were filed among U.S. between 2013 and 2016.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But the Democratic Party was recognized as being more trusted to address gun violence, prescription drug costs, abortion, the future of Medicare and Medicaid, the future of the ACA, health care affordability, access to mental health, and climate change.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In June 2020, I wrote about the APA’s Stress in America study which focused in on the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice, just days after the death/murder of George Floyd. government response to the coronavirus public health crisis was a significant source of stress to them.

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. The classification of substance abuse as a chronic condition by the ACA has implications with regards to digital health.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Mothers with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (“FPL”) in states which have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) are eligible to remain covered by Medicaid and those with incomes above 138% FPL may be eligible to qualify for subsidized coverage through the ACA marketplace.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America. Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, cracks in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The vast majority of the most seriously ill patients in the U.S. have health insurance (91%), but even with coverage one-third have serious problems paying hospital bills, and 29% have difficulty affording prescription drugs. It’s titled Being Seriously Ill in America Today. .

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the primary federal agency responsible for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

…because it does. Citizens scare politicians,” I heard Governor John Kasich say to Nicole Wallace on her show Deadline: White House yesterday, just hours from today’s U.S. 2018 midterm elections. Governor Kasich has led the Buckeye State since 2011, and his second and final term ends in January 2019.

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