Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured.

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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.

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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What You Should Know: – Headway , a tech-enabled network of mental health providers, has achieved a major milestone: it is now serving patients in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Limited provider availability: Headway has built dense networks of providers across the country, offering more options and quicker appointments.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

Health care has increased its role in popular culture over the years. to paint the movement on outdoor walls to promote health citizenship and the importance of health care access and affordability for all people in America. Power to the Patients is motivating muralists around the U.S.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

by Rebekah Ninan A recent lawsuit in the Southern District of New York has alleged that the health insurance company Anthem Blue and Cross Blue Shield violated state laws and committed fraud by maintaining “ghost networks” of mental health providers. Rebekah Ninan’s (J.D.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 13, 2023

In a new case study, published in collaboration with the Milbank Memorial Fund, CHIR researchers detail stakeholder efforts to expand primary care access in Columbia County, Arkansas—a county classified as a primary care health professional shortage area.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 9, 2022

The authors evaluated stakeholder efforts to increase the number of primary clinicians, bring outpatient clinics to the community, make primary care affordable, and build relationships between providers and patients.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed by Congress in 1996, the establishment of federal standards for safeguarding PHI was not one of the primary objectives. What is HIPAA? What is HIPAA Title II?

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Considering these substantial consequences for patients’ access to mental health care, developing solutions to prevent ghost networks is critical. To remedy issues of data quality and integrity, insurers could use algorithms or AI to detect and remove ghost provider entries.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

The limiting factor — or wild card, as Kaufman Hall put it in their blog today — is whether the consumer-patient had health insurance. economy shed millions of jobs — many tied to health insurance coverage. With the great lockdown, the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 28, 2015

With all the new technologies, mobile medical applications, expansion of health care access under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the emphasis on quality of care, telemedicine is at the forefront of the health care industry.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

.” This study can (should) also inform tech developers’ and health care providers’ approaches to collaborating with patients and caregivers with respect to their personal health information and the digital tools the industry stakeholders want to put into health consumers’ hands.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. 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. One in two people in the U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Even those people who have health insurance in the U.S. avoid care due to cost. The latest Robert Wood Johnson biennial survey on the state of health insurance shows that over two in five working-age people in the U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% for Individual health plans — increasing from 7.5% for Group plans and 7.5% and 7.0%, respectively.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

This speaks to the fact that in emerging countries, health citizens are often leap-frogging health access using digital health tools, compared with patients and consumers in wealthier nations which have capital-intensive, bricks-and-mortar built medical care infrastructures.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

People value preventive care, but if they have to cover these services out of their own pockets, the services compete with other household spending that, in the current economic climate, crowds out preventive care for many households. Post-Dobbs era of women’s health access challenges).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

.” “This,” being the scenarios illustrated by people – health consumers, patients, caregivers, all hungry for health citizenship, illustrated here by their signs of SDoHs curated in this second slide from my PowerPoint deck.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

The fourth chart details five core SDoH factors covered in the survey: financial and economic, housing, education, food quality and access (nutrition), and health care access and health literacy. The overwhelming majority of employers are already attending to financial wellness and health care access and literacy.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Cash-constraints vis-à-vis health care spending will also impact peoples’ political views on healthcare reform in the U.S. Watch for calls among younger voters to support, broadly writ, universal health care access.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 9, 2023

From a compliance perspective, this means supporting care teams based on the principles of social determinants of health (SDOH), such as understanding how to access affordable health insurance or obtaining transportation for follow-up appointments.

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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

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. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Health Care Entities Under SB 184, “health care entities”, which include (i) payers , (ii) providers and (iii) fully integrated delivery systems [2] , are potentially subject to OHCA’s CMIR authority.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

CVS has been tracking the growing trend of health care consumerism in the U.S. since first launching this consumer market research in 2018 in the Health Ambitions Study conducted in concert with Aetna — the pharmacy chain’s newly-acquired health insurance company. Stress levels among U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

health citizens are worried about unexpected medical bills (net 74%), the cost of health care services (net 74%), their prescription drug costs (net 55%) and their monthly health insurance premium (net 48%), shown in the second bar chart. .” More granularly, most U.S. — very personal.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the post- Dobbs fight to safeguard reproductive healthcare, a new spotlight has been placed on two existing federal laws: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). . By Katie Gu.

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AIHC

AUGUST 13, 2024

It applies to health programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance, known as covered entities. Those covered by the rule may include hospitals, health clinics, health insurance issuers, state Medicaid agencies, community health centers, physicians’ practices, and home health care agencies.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated many trends in and beyond health care. One is Americans’ growing understanding of health care as a civil right. The post The Unbearable Heaviness of Healthcare in America – the Change Healthcare/Harris Poll appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

UCHealth sued patients nearly 16K times in last 5 years, investigation reveals Colorado Health Access Survey shows high costs are preventing residents from getting needed care NAMI’s newly renovated office will provide more mental health care access in southeast Colorado Springs Colorado Springs hospitals team up with FBI for bioterrorism drill (..)

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Receiver unravels financial mess at Boston nursing home Baystate Health, Wellpoint reach multi-year contract agreement Cardinal Health opens medical product distribution center in Massachusetts Changing blood test protocol could improve patient care, catch disease sooner Mass. sold for $4.1B

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Hall Render

JUNE 7, 2024

million bird flu shots to U.S.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

New report brings grim statistic to Mississippi maternal health UMMC program provides mental health care for moms Faith, medical leaders to discuss expanding health care access at Gov.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

New report brings grim statistic to Mississippi maternal health UMMC program provides mental health care for moms Faith, medical leaders to discuss expanding health care access at Gov.

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2023

spoiler bid for home health care company Thousands of Minnesotans at risk of losing health insurance get a one-month reprieve MISSISSIPPI $5.3M for stroke and kidney treatment Optum wins $3.2B

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