Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The health care system struggled to handle the surge of COVID-19 patients leading to shortages of critical supplies , and overcrowded emergency rooms and hospitals. At the end of the PHE, states began Medicaid disenrollment, and more than 7 million people have already lost health insurance this year.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Patients’ postponing health care will continue for some, resulting in worse prognoses for them along with the need for providers to engage people where they are to bolster trust in their return to care sites. along with health disparities and inequities. Mortality will be up in the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

What is New: Department of Health Care Access and Information (“HCAI”) posted a draft methodology for evaluating applications for the Distressed Hospital Loan Program (“Loan Program”) and is surveying California hospitals to assess interest in the Loan Program. May 25, 2023 – CHFFA approved loan administration.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

Health plan cost trend dramatically fell in 2022, thereafter rebounding as patients returned to medical care after a period of “medical distancing,” avoiding in-person care whether in hospital outpatient departments or doctors’ offices.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

.” Here we see that among people who have health insurance in the U.S., 55% of those with medical debt have had at least one limiting behavior due to cost — such as not going to the doctor for necessary care, skipping a test or treatment recommended by a doctor, or not filling a drug prescribed by a clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: HL7 Integrations Engineer – TEKsystems Director, Health Information Services Operations – Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Billing Analyst – Harlingen Medical Center Manager, IT EPIC Application Clinical and Revenue Cycle – North Memorial Health Denials Coder (..)

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2019

And pharma, already not-trusted for engaging with patients online, are in the sights of hospitals, health plans, and physicians in the current healthcare cost blame-game on Main Street in mass media and in Congressional Capitol Hill hearings.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Fello: Revolutionizing Peer Support for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Amid rising challenges of loneliness, anxiety, and addiction, Fello is transforming how individuals access support by offering a peer-driven, virtual marketplace that pairs lived experiences with evidence-based practices.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2022

Factor in a near 20% increase in adults reporting symptoms of anxiety and/or depression due to the pandemic, the stress of everyone schooling and working from home, and therapy deserts, and the need for affordable mental health care access seemed more urgent than ever.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And for health care providers globally, pharmacies are the stockroom by which they rely on to treat patients. This is where drugs come to patients and where patients see life-changing benefits of medications. Prior to joining SAS, Leonard worked across the industry with payers, providers, physicians, and pharmaceutical organizations.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

The third chart bolsters a fact we know-we-know about patients’ faith in health care providers as trusted data stewards : that is that apps recommended by doctors and hospitals more likely make patients feel more comfortable about using them than digital tools not vetted by a trusted source.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Among all of the challenges health care providers will face in 2023, digital health tools could have the greatest potential to improve patient access, according to the issues most Top of Mind for Top Health Systems 2023 from UPMC. That’s the supply side of digital tech use for bolstering patient access.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. ” Next, let’s visit the article looking at Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

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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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

By early June, more consumers were planning to return to doctors’ offices and hospitals within three to six months from June — more open to physician offices than hospitals, but a promising opening up to scheduling appointments in the health care system. This is shown in the last slide with the blue bars.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

He continued his prescriptions for making health care more human, humane, and evidence-based with other bold ideas including getting rid of keyboards in the physician-patient encounter, ensuring patients own/control their personal health data, and increasing the time shared between doctors and patients during the encounter.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

These are people in want and need of education, a good and secure job, food, safe and clean housing, health care access, and clean water, air, and stable climate (that would be Greta Thunberg holding her sign for a “school strike for the climate”).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. Our field deals disproportionately with the elderly and with people who suffer a range of disabilities, physical and mental.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Site prep is underway on a 68-acre parcel where University Health is building a new full-service hospital near Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Critics said the facility would be unable to deal with major medical emergencies and would be too close to existing hospitals. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur, IL.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

Check out the health care services Americans say are the most important for commercial health insurance plans to cover. Post-Dobbs era of women’s health access challenges). “A woman’s health is her capital and her body hears everything her mind says.”

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Healthcare Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Lois Richardson of the California Hospital Association (CHA) raised concerns with the breadth of the definition of “transactions” and, particularly, that the inclusion of “a change of assets… or… operations” could expand the statute in a manner which could implicate seemingly routine or ordinary course transactions.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

The goods will have to deliver more “good” to the buyer, including health and wellness benefits. Industries have already begun to feel the effects of the sharing economy whether cars (via Lyft and Uber), housing and hospitality (via Airbnb), and of course, bricks-and-mortar retailers.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

DOJ’s preference for case-by-case determination will create uncertainty for health care systems engaging in diligence and discussions with potential collaborators on ventures intended to improve health care access, reduce overhead and costs, and improve outcomes.

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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. These conversations are happening throughout the OECD community, country by country.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

CalAIM has also established an In Lieu of Services (ILOS) community supports program, which provides cost-effective, health-supporting services that may be substituted for existing State Plan–covered services to reduce hospitalization and institutionalization, reduce cost, and address underlying drivers of poor health.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

Supporting telehealth where the evidence points to virtual care’s positive impact on patients and the planet is another way we can constructively use our energy to expand both health care access and do right by the environment. For more insights into the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In addition, to receiving inadequate treatment, the stigma that comes with these biases can discourage individuals from seeking necessary care altogether. Factors like air quality, access to fresh foods, education level, time and distance to the nearest hospital all have an instrumental impact on health and well-being.

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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. Parts 417, 422, 423, 455, and 460.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Pop culture meets health and health politics this summer of 2023, noting that beyond Barbie , the movie, Taylor and Beyonce Swift have been contributing to local good works to bolster food access and education , sharing their wealth for well-being. It may be a summer of love for women and consumer spending in 2023.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

a grave risk of immediate business failure) and the transaction is necessary to ensure continued health care access in the relevant markets, or (i) there is a substantial likelihood of a significant reduction in the provision of critical health care services within one or more geographic regions.

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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As we anticipated in our previous blog article , the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) made revisions to its proposed regulations following the public workshop hosted by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) in August.

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Innovaare Compliance

JANUARY 19, 2021

CAHPS data is developed using a set of surveys that primarily measure the patient or member experience as they interact with health plans and health care providers, including doctors, nurses, and others in various settings, including hospitals, physician offices, and other healthcare facilities.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 9, 2023

Health care – Access to quality health care, and the ability to obtain health insurance  Compliance professionals can survey patients on these five areas to help their organizations reframe patient care expectations and understand what’s important to them related to care.  

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Passed in 1986, EMTALA requires hospitals accepting Medicaid or Medicare payments from HHS or CMS to provide abortion care necessary to address emergency medical conditions. Because most hospitals rely on Medicaid and Medicare payments, the law currently applies to nearly all hospitals in the U.S. CMS EMTALA Guidance .

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