Jane Sarashon

JUNE 10, 2024

Health insurance plans make mainstream media news every week, whether coverage deals with the cost of a plan, the cost of out-of-network care, prior authorizations, or cybersecurity and ransomware attacks, among other front-page issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The wide-ranging report – which focuses only on commercial health insurance laws, and not Medicaid rules – notes that, although telehealth coverage has widely expanded, not all of these laws are equally effective at ensuring access to virtual care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. consumers, our homes, the healthcare system, and what we’ve learned in the first six months of the pandemic about all aspects of our health: physical, mental and emotional, financial, and societal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We collaborate globally with top telemedicine organizations, from health insurers to government health ministries. For instance, Solv's symptom checker, launched in October 2022, doubled in-network bookings and achieved an 80% satisfaction rating. Our systems have triaged more than 15 million patients worldwide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Developed by the company's health tech unit, Ping An Health, the AI-driven service virtually connects patients with GPs – certified by the World Organization of Family Doctors – for medical consultations. It also facilitates referrals, hospital appointment bookings, nursing care, and post-discharge follow-ups.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

Similarly, seamless data exchange across hospitals, health insurance and regulatory systems is crucial for efficient functioning. In our experience, 60-70% of scheduling and appointments are manual, and patients do not have simplified and intuitive apps or portals for curating their own care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One-third of Americans would opt into using a personal monitoring system 24/7 by an insurance company or health care provider in exchange for lower-cost insurance. 1 in 4 people would work with an artificial intelligence (AI) technology for lower health care costs.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 27, 2018

UK insurer Aviva has just announced a partnership with Now Healthcare Group to offer large corporate health insurance customers access to over 1,000 general practitioners.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S. health citizens: that is, consumers, patients, caregivers, and clinicians (especially nurses, pharmacists, and physicians).

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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 Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And, as detailed in my book, Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow , the American population is aging. Employers want to safeguard their profitability and avoid workers who could develop absenteeism and productivity problems and raise health insurance costs.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.

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Total HIPAA

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These insurers must adhere to HIPAA rules when managing health information for the company they provide health insurance to. If you have determined your company needs to be HIPAA compliant please book a demo to learn about HIPAA Prime. Book a Clarity Call Today. We look forward to meeting you!

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the heatmap chart illustrates, health insurance ranks relatively low in peoples’ simplicity lens, akin to general insurance, media, and automotive, and below booking travel (air, train, car rental), and social media. Note that retail-health is ranked in the most-simple cohort of businesses.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Bloomberg reported that Walmart’s projected visit volume for the company’s new health clinic in Duluth, Georgia, exceeded expectations. This week, too, The Wall Street Journal analyzed the impact of insurer-owned retail clinics’ potential threat to hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Called PfizerForAll, the DTP space allows patients to use their existing health insurance and pharmacy programs to talk to a doctor at UpScript or book an appointment on Zocdoc and get support on prior authorizations for medications.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It is important to note that some of these structural barriers are parallel to some peoples’ lack of access to health insurance. I wrote my book, Health Citizenship , in 2020, six months into the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2023

With more than 50 specialties offering more than 20,00 appointments each week, patients without health insurance can book doctors' visits for a set price with no referrals required.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This latter point suggests that for these people, there may be concern that their current health insurance coverage could be limited or otherwise “shrink” based on next year’s potentially slimmed-down health plan. This is the underpinning theme of my book, HealthConsuming. .

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Medisys Compliance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A common reason for optometry billing errors in many healthcare facilities is not checking insurance. Some optometry medical facilities let the patients pass without checking their health insurance coverage in an effort to save time. A seemingly wise decision that can end up costing you dearly. . Using medical coding manual .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2020

billion in lost working time last year, says a report published by the health insurance firm AXA PPP Healthcare today. By allowing patients to book, amend and cancel appointments easily, the CEBR report says that online GP services could help reduce this figure.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 8, 2024

Colin Hung caught up with Rich Eells at the GIO service provider, which is making extensive use of the patient access features of eClinicalWorks for booking appointments and using AI tools to offer slots for waiting patients if a cancellation open up a spot. Read more… Reforming Health Insurance by Automating It.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Meanwhile, if the individual also decided to buy a Cerebral subscription plan, the trackers might have provided third parties with users’ subscription plan types, appointment dates, other booking information, treatment data and additional clinical information, as well as health insurance/pharmacy benefits data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Among the five industries compared for digital experience, health care and insurance fell to #4 and #5, with online retail, banking and travel ranking in the top three positions. That’s a new bar not just for retail and banking, but for health care and insurance as well.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee. That is a 4.1% increase from the 2019 estimate, about twice the rate of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve written that one of the relative “gifts” of the coronavirus pandemic has been the digital transformation of the consumer. This graphic comes out of my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened up hearts and minds.

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Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

Sixty percent of workers with health insurance were covered by a health plan with a deductible (a HDHP). Four in ten insured workers contributed to a health savings account (HSA( associated with their HDHP. Only 39% of employed people are confident they will be able to cover medical costs in retirement.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Within digital literacy is now a new component of competency for health citizens: understanding privacy, security, and data hygiene for our own personal health information.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So what’s an organization like CTA doing with AI and health care? Check out this graphic taken from my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. In the best of all worlds, that can lead us to better health outcomes, more effective care, and lower costs. Let me connect the dots.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I discuss “Zip Codes, Genetic Codes, Food and Health” in Chapter 7. Food insecurity was the most important SDoH for driving IP and ER use, followed by safety risks, housing challenges, transportation and social isolation.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

Building this “one layered” platform approach to care, which serves people based on their clinical needs and personal values and value, is the Holy Grail of this report.

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Total HIPAA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This isn’t just about ticking off a checklist; it’s about safeguarding the future of your organization, whether you’re a medical practice, a health insurance agent, a self-funded employer, or a business associate in the healthcare realm. It’s about building a concrete history of diligent, proactive measures.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. The table (Appendix: The Cost-of-Thriving Data) organizes the growing costs by household line item including housing, health insurance, transportation and college.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Italy scores above-the-OECD-average for life expectancy, fewer deaths from heart disease, healthy weight (measured by obesity rate), and universal health insurance coverage via a national health service. Book I of the eight volumes Celsus wrote covered diet, hygiene, and the benefits of exercise.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. The Affordable Care Act sought to promote primary care in many provisions.

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