Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare. Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care.

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Primary Care Medicare Prevention Medicaid 90

HIT Consultant

MAY 30, 2023

As much as we would like to go back to normal, it seems that simply turning the page on the PHE without carrying forward what we learned during Covid will leave millions of Americans scrambling for healthcare and disengaging from essential preventive health services. I know too well about the heavy price of late detection.

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Home Health Care

JULY 20, 2023

The organization includes 8,000 primary care and specialist physicians providing care to more than 175,000 members enrolled in commercial insurance plans, as well as Medicare and Medicaid. On its end, HealthCare Partners NY is an independent physician association (IPA) that operates in the Northeast.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

"Physicians commonly prescribe antithrombotic or anticoagulants for these patients to prevent cardiac events such as heart attack and stroke, which may result in hospitalizations and readmissions if patients don't adhere to their medication regimen," said Brian Davis, CIO at Magnolia Regional Health Center.

Hospitals 231

Hospitals Medicare Primary Care Quality of Care 231

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately, most providers don’t have the proper infrastructure or resources to maintain consistent insight into their patient’s life and health outside of clinical interactions, leaving a gaping hole in the healthcare industry’s primary care delivery model.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Primary Care Medicare Prevention 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute. By the autumn of 2020, U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

Weight loss, energy, and disease prevention are on a plurality of peoples’ minds when adopting a specific eating pattern like paleo or the DASH diet. Be aware that primary care providers are already switched-on to this idea. longer adding table sugar to beverages.

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Primary Care Doctors Prevention Medicaid 74

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Care coordination with other important social determinant drivers – like personal care, transportation, meals delivery and physical activity, as well as clinical care coordination with the health system, primary care doctors and emergent referral sources for quality and timeliness of care, will all be important in the upcoming year.

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Home Care Medicare Nursing Medicaid 108

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. gross domestic product in 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services calculated.

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Primary Care Medicare Accountability Hospitals 110

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

McKinsey’s report models outpatient and office visits that can be virtually enabled for patients covered by both commercial and public sector health plans (Medicare and Medicaid). with most wellness and well-being care shifting to virtual, and a bulk of outpatient and preventive services going virtual. health care system.

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Healthcare Telemedicine Hospitals Urgent Care 153

Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

In America, health insurance coverage is tied to employment, so some portion of health citizens who filed for unemployment will fall into the uninsurance rolls, unable to afford buying into COBRA plans when offered or without an ability to buy a plan in a state that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Healthcare 77

Healthcare Primary Care Patient Experience Doctors 77

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Somatus model is an interesting one, as it takes a whole person approach to kidney care, that reduced the medical loss ratio (MLR, the comparison of medical costs to total revenue, and ideally below 85% for Medicare patients) for kidney care patients by 21.9%, which is a remarkable number.

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Medicare Life Sciences Prevention 59

Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

The definition of that “modern house call” is largely based on the model of care delivered by CareMore Health — a team-based approach that serves the whole person beyond their diagnosis.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. In the U.S., state’s population enrolled in the plan), and, yes, obesity.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

“Delaying procedures, reducing spending on preventive care and chronic care, and decreasing adherence to medications may have negative long-term impacts on health status, although the extent is unknown,” PwC notes. 34% “thought twice” before asking their doctor for a prescription when they felt sick.

Telemedicine 77

Telemedicine Hospitals Doctors Prevention 77

Etactics

AUGUST 19, 2021

96% of Medical Professionals Agree that Burnout is an Issue (NEJM Catalyst) Not only do doctors recognize this issue, but their executives and leaders agree. This chews up lots of time for physicians and prevents them from seeing more patients. This is true for doctors since one in four physicians will drink to cope with burnout.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2024

The bar chart tells us two kinds of people in the health/care ecosystem are much more trusted than other consumers’ touchpoints for the information: these are personal healthcare professionals (say, “my” doctor or nurse practitioner or pharmacist) and registered dietitians or nutritionists.

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Accountability Doctors Medicaid Nursing 71

NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Most Americans trust doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, especially their own, and states are leveraging this trust and engaging these providers in both COVID-19 and routine vaccination efforts. For example, one state’s Medicaid agency sent a fax blast to Medicaid-participating pharmacies to help encourage vaccinations.

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Medicaid Nursing Integration Doctors 52

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The expansion allows for people to start the cycle of primary care treatment and follow up on other treatment options that their doctor or primary provider has recommended for them, without having to worry about high costs, deductibles or transportation issues.

Primary Care 208

Primary Care Telemedicine Accountability Remote Care 208

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 13, 2022

Let’s talk about fixing the huge American diabetes problem, providing better healthcare for Medicaid and dual eligible beneficiaries, and helping people beat cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes on its website that the number of new diagnosed cases of Type 2 diabetes has significantly increased among U.S.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Medicaid Primary Care Doctors 52

NASHP

AUGUST 29, 2022

Without question, the relaxation of previous telehealth restrictions at the federal and state level expanded access to virtual health services – including primary care, chronic disease, prescription drug management, and more. However, it also raises important questions that state legislators and program officials need to address.

Primary Care 83

Primary Care Urgent Care Patient Experience Doctors 83

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2023

The way we have allowed the healthcare system in the United States to operate means that very few people have a single integrated and coordinated healthcare solution for their needs and that often no one is fully responsible for a patient’s care and financial coordination. Doctors too want to be loved. medications.

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Primary Care Medicare Doctors 59

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 13, 2023

According to McKinsey, “the cost to treat the diabetes of a patient with depression is, on average, almost $20,000 higher than for a patient without depression, due to factors such as medical complications, reduced access to preventive care, and challenges with illness self-management.” More on Primary Care.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Primary Care Integration Urgent Care 98

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

There are a number of strategies state health officials can use as they build sustainable access to palliative care services in their Medicaid programs. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Quality Assurance Quality of Care Hospitals 52

p3care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They want to make quality care accessible for every individual. That’s why they have expanded the Medicaid program. For instance: ? The proportion of persons who use preventative services (such as mammograms or immunizations). ? The proportion of diabetes patients who had regular blood sugar checks and management.

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Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

Episode Introduction Melissa shares the four challenges faced by caregivers today, calls on doctors to recognize family and patients as a ‘’unit’’, and highlights the ‘’unpaid, untrained, overwhelmed, burned-out’’ reality of caregiving. It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. Really, they’re not.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community. It all started with, in Le’s words, the image of “the revered small-town doc with his black doctor’s bag doing house calls.”

Home Care 104

Home Care Nursing Hospitals Prevention 104

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

Centene noted that for Centene Medicare members, the inpatient utilization trend was higher than 60%, but lower than 60% for Medicaid and Marketplace members. agilon health noted modest COVID-related Medicare Advantage inpatient utilization, partially offset with a pronounced shift to outpatient care, based upon agilon’s latest data.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Medicare Primary Care Nursing 52

NASHP

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 for children 5–11 years old. Recommendations for use of this vaccine by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) are expected by November 3 rd.

Medicaid 122

Medicaid Primary Care Hospitals Doctors 122

Vie Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

And as you know, obviously a huge percentage of healthcare spending is funded through Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the VA system, and these are all programs that are covered by the False Claims Act. Not one of those people who comes from a family of doctors or anything like that either. All this really affects clinicians. Great point.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

Vie Healthcare

APRIL 26, 2023

So, I launched myself into understanding more about healthcare from a business perspective, because I’m not a clinician, not a nurse or doctor, don’t have any training. Not one of those people who comes from a family of doctors or anything like that either. So, we’re just going to go over here and do something else.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Care Coordination Workforce. Care Transitions. public health, Medicaid, mental health) and other stakeholders (e.g., health plans, providers, families of CYSHCN) in using, adapting, and implementing the National Care Coordination Standards for CYSHCN to develop or improve care coordination systems.

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Care Transition Medicaid Doctors Regulations 52

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The crisis also demonstrated flaws in the American healthcare infrastructure by revealing that only curative care infrastructure (as opposed to preventative care) continued to dominate the pandemic response. For example, only patients who showed symptoms would receive treatment with admission into hospitals.

Telemedicine 86

Telemedicine Rehabilitation Primary Care Prevention 86