Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. While overall U.S.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

As Mostashari said today, it is becoming increasingly clear to primary care practices that the current system is not sustainable. Now I understand why my primary care physician tests me annually for inflammation through a C-reactive protein (CRP) test.

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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. colonoscopy).

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

To further benefit institutions’ fiscal health, care will move closer to patients — at home, in the community to lower-cost settings, and via hybrid channels of telehealth and virtual care outside of the hospital.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. Outpatient care inched up from 73 to 74. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Some of the decline in service volumes has been for screenings and preventive care, which will result in underdiagnosis of, for example, cancer conditions further downstream — with more acutely, advanced cases requiring more aggressive (and potentially expensive) treatments. health care?

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Another key shift that serves as a medical cost trend deflator is the shift in site of care, to homes, community-based care locales, and outpatient healthcare settings such as ambulatory surgery centers. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S., That’s history.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Insurance companies and third-party administrators (TPAs) also have critical roles to play in the care experience, bringing together networks of physicians, specialists, surgery centers, hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and more to create a comprehensive care experience for their members or clients’ employees.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 18, 2023

Driven by a desire for more convenient and affordable care, many patients focusing less on provider qualifications when seeking ambulatory care, according to a new Wolters Kluwer survey, which shows 58% of them opting first for retail options as pharmacists shifting to address consumer needs.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2024

John Kao, CEO of Alignment Healthcare, shared today that only 12% percent of their Medicare Advantage membership accounts for approximately 74% percent of their institutional cost (hospital and facility costs), while conversely their “healthy” membership of 74% accounted for only 5% of their institutional costs.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” And so what I would say mainly, especially to employers, to hospital systems, there’s always been sort of a stigma about online. 23:34 The benefits of hiring Nurse Practitioners Rhone said that NPs offer both clinical and interpersonal skills for hospitals. Now you need online education.”

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CMS’s 2021 report explained that “[i]n 2019, Medicare beneficiaries saw an average of 50 percent more specialists in the outpatient setting than in 2000, doubling the number of physicians with whom primary care providers must coordinate care. Create Financial Incentives within Primary Care for Specialist Engagement.

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