Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

In other words, both convicted individuals and those still presumed innocent are stripped of their access to the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Estelle v. 3514 and S.2628

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Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Public Health 299

Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 7, 2022

As we approach the end of the public health emergency, Medicaid will not be the only program affected by pandemic relief policies that expire. Continue reading → The post The Expiration of the Public Health Emergency Also Ends Policies to Lower Health Access Barriers appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Public Health COVID-19 Health Insurance Medicaid 96

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2022

Halifax County Public Health System (HCPHS) has been confirmed as having implemented an effective HIPAA compliance program by Compliancy Group. The post Halifax County Public Health System Achieves HIPAA Compliance appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

Public Health 98

Public Health HIPAA Compliance Health Insurance 98

Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 29, 2022

As many as 16 million people are expected to lose Medicaid once the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. Continue reading → The post Mitigating Coverage Loss When the Public Health Emergency Ends: The Role of the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

Public Health 96

Public Health ACA COVID-19 Health Insurance 96

Center for Health Insurance Reform

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, millions of people will lose Medicaid as states resume eligibility determinations. Continue reading → The post Bridging the Gap: Oregon’s Proposal to Ease Coverage Transitions at the End of Public Health Emergency appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

Public Health 97

Public Health ACA COVID-19 Health Insurance 97

Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 4, 2023

After more than three years, the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is set to expire on May 11, 2023. health care system adapt to the pandemic will also expire. Once the PHE designation is lifted, a number of federal policies intended to help the U.S.

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Public Health COVID-19 Federal Policy 129

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Public Health COVID-19 Telemedicine FDA 116

HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sweeping healthcare policy changes that enable vulnerable Americans to receive affordable health coverage and access essential safety net benefits. In the long run, this causes economic hardship to the state, healthcare providers, and insurers. About Heather Korbulic.

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Public Health Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 98

Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

Perhaps the most egregious aspect of Veltman’s case is that her son’s Medi-Cal termination violated a rule that prevents people from being disenrolled from Medicaid during the federal public health emergency that was declared at the start of the covid-19 pandemic. “This shouldn’t be happening.

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Public Health Health Insurance Professionals ACA COVID-19 326

Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Dubai Health Authority ( DHA ) and its health insurance regulatory body have launched a “first-of-its-kind” digital-led programme that is expected to form the foundation for value-based healthcare adoption in the emirate, it has been announced.

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Health Insurance Governance Public Health 246

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2020

healthcare system, first and foremost the nation’s patchwork public health infrastructure and health inequities in mortality rates due to COVID-19. healthcare: the cost of health insurance relative to working Americans’ relatively flat incomes.

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Health Insurance COVID-19 Public Health 71

Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 4, 2022

While federal health coverage reforms remain stalled in Congress, several states are pushing forward to establish modified versions of public health insurance options.

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Health Insurance Public Health 124

Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Oregon Health Authority recently released its Public Option Implementation Report, stemming from a legislative directive to develop a plan to make a public health insurance option available in the individual (and potentially small group) market.

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Health Insurance Public Health 120

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. One-half of U.S.

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ACA Health Insurance Medicaid Medicaid 139

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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COVID-19 Public Health Medicare Medicare 218

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. " "We let 1,000 flowers bloom," said Shelley, with regard to different insurance plans. " If the U.S.

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COVID-19 Public Health Telemedicine Malpractice 209

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Global Health Equity Care.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Public Health Health Insurance 213

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Bupa Arabia , the Saudi-owned and publicly traded health insurance company, has just announced its backing of the Dubai-based online appointment booking platform, Okadoc. ” Enterprise Taxonomy: Finance Population and Public Health Workflow Business Care Process. ” THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Doctors Health Insurance Telemedicine Public Health 203

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. In an announcement about the bipartisan bill, Rep.

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COVID-19 Public Health Medicare Medicare 180

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

"Health plans are offering more telemedicine and digital health coverage as part of a broader acceptance of virtual care; changes we believe will largely remain even after the Public Health Emergency ends," said Nathaniel Lacktman, partner and chair of the firm’s national telemedicine and digital health industry team, in a statement.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Federal Policy Public Health 218

Center for Health Insurance Reform

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This month, we summarize studies on how the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will impact health coverage, global efforts to achieve universal health coverage, and the effects of eliminating nominal marketplace premiums.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Public Health 98

Center for Health Insurance Reform

AUGUST 3, 2022

Employer-sponsored insurance is the largest source of health coverage in the U.S., health care system is imperiled by rising health care costs. but the employer market’s historic status as the “backbone” of the U.S.

Health Insurance 96

Health Insurance Public Health 96

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We are more accustomed to emojis being the characters in a “ cinematic masterpiece ” or the subject of corporate public relations. Health care is no exception. Public Health Awareness First, hospitals might try to reach patients through engaging ads that deploy emojis. In health care, complexity is everywhere.

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Doctors Hospitals Fraud Health Insurance 290

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

” That concerns varies by a person’s type of health coverage: those with private health insurance tend to be more worried about paying the high-deductible, as well as people of color, and those in poorer health. 90% conducted research into health care costs. population). population).

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Patient Advocacy Public Health 127

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

Thirty years ago, Highmark enrolled the first Pennsylvania child in the Children's Health Insurance Program. | One of the country's largest Blues plans is looking to get the word out about how critical CHIP could be as flexibilities introduced under the public health emergency unwind.

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Public Health Health Insurance 59

AIHC

APRIL 22, 2025

While the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is typically associated with patient privacy, it also contains important exceptions that protect whistleblowers. This clause is critical for compliance officers to understand, especially when investigating disclosures involving PHI.

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Compliance HIPAA Compliance Officers Fraud 89

Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024. health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity.

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Public Health Health Insurance COVID-19 59

Center for Health Insurance Reform

AUGUST 8, 2022

Many of those losing their Medicaid eligibility after the COVID-19 public health emergency will have illnesses or conditions requiring uninterrupted access to health care services.

Medicaid 98

Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Public Health 98

Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For the latest installment of our monthly research roundup, we reviewed studies on consumer awareness of Medicaid renewals resuming when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) expires, integrating health equity into value-based payment models, and trends in hospital consolidation across health care markets.

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COVID-19 Medicaid Medicaid Public Health 95

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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Health Insurance Ransomware Hospitals Doctors 59

Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 24, 2022

CHIR and our colleagues at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) have published two new resources examining state-level preparations for the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and the redetermination of the Medicaid eligibility of close to 85 million people.

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ACA Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 95

Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

The team also calculated annual health care costs per individual, which are expected to be $6,516 in 2021, about 7.6% Each year, I figure out what the average PPO cost could buy someone in exchange for that health insurance. adults living in 17 States and DC who had one of five types of health care coverage, public and private.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Health Outcomes Public Health 174

Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency expires this spring, bringing an end to pandemic-related funding, infrastructure, and flexibilities. Continue reading → The post COVID “Long Haulers” Still Struggle with Coverage and Care appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Public Health 95

Bill of Health

APRIL 4, 2024

The main federal health privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) applies only to “covered entities” like health insurers, claims- processing clearinghouses, and health care providers and their business associates, and only to a subset of protected health care information.

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FDA Malpractice Regulatory Compliance Health Insurance 288

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Hospitals Governance Health Insurance COVID-19 181

Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 17, 2022

With the generous support of Arnold Ventures, CHIR experts have launched a new resource center and newsletter to provide policymakers with a dedicated, independent source of unbiased and comprehensive information on public health insurance options and related proposals that promote affordability and contain costs. Find out more.

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Health Insurance Public Health 80

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

" Key components of the ATA's Health Data Privacy Principles include: Consistency Definition of Consumer Health data Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Consumer Rights Consumer Consent, Sale of Data & Opt-Out Enforcement THE LARGER TREND For 30 years the ATA has advocated on behalf of telehealth providers.

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