Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, in the grant fraud example above where the researcher billed the National Institutes of Health for scuba and birthday trips, the researcher’s employer, a New York college, ended up consenting to judgment against it in federal court and to pay $200,000 to resolve its False Claims Act allegations. [6] 15, 2022) (indictment). [3]

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

While connected fitness was gauged in 2019, the other three categories were new to the 2021 study. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

2019-28: Expected Rebound in Prices Drives Rising Spending Growth. ” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. NHE will grow 5.4% in the decade, the model expects.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

An executive order passed in 2019 directed the Department of Health and Human Services to create new guidelines to help reduce healthcare costs. To achieve price transparency compliance , hospitals must publish their billed prices and negotiated rates for all inpatient and outpatient services and prices that they negotiate with insurers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. is getting fuzzier by the day.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

Employers cited several main tactics to address coupon cards looking forward from 2019 to 2022. One-third of employers were already doing this in 2019, with another 20% adding in 2020 and 16% considering for 2021-22. In contrast, employers have used rebate payments to defray premium costs). Across party identification, U.S.

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DropStat

MARCH 14, 2024

By 2019, the University of Michigan Hospital, Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor was among 21 Michigan hospitals to rank in the U.S. The commitment to continuous improvement is being written into law with a bill named the H.E.A.L.T.H. which has been tested and validated in 52 leading U.S. News Best Hospital list. Act of 2023.

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MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Dieticians also test for various metrics via a blood sample from a finger prick, checking cholesterol and glucose, along with blood pressure and BMI. The company invested $67 million in affordable housing in 2019, which built 2,200 homes in 24 cities in six states. Supermarket News offered more details on the program.

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NHA Now

JULY 9, 2020

With an ever-evolving healthcare system, certified medical billing and coding professionals have to stay on top of changing codes, practices, and regulations. Staying current with annual coding updates is a best practice for ensuring correct documentation, coding, reporting, and billing.

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NHA Now

JANUARY 1, 2024

From medical assistants, phlebotomists, EHR and pharmacy technicians to medical administrative assistants, billing and coding specialists, EKG technicians, and patient care technicians, these individuals play a pivotal role in the delivery of quality healthcare. Books, notes, practice tests, repeat! So now, here I am.

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MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. I believe that grocery stores in their communities will play growing roles in health for consumers who seek to engage in overall well-being.

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NHA Now

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I hope the certificants are able to grasp some of the basics of how to identify integumentary problems on the human body, along with some basic understandings of how these common skin conditions can be tested for and treated, with a goal better patient care and education.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. The Americans’ comfort with these tests approach nearly one-half of people across the different test types.

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 2, 2024

Whether it is food from the grocery or at a restaurant, the bill can be eye-opening compared to a few years ago. The Wall Street Journal reports that prices of food eaten away from home rose 30% since 2019, according to labor Department statistics, and that prices for a Big Mac increased 21% over the same period.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Paying for utility bills, food, housing (mortgage or rent), and car repairs were financially challenging for over 50% of people who had trouble paying for any expenses. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Among U.S. consumers who had difficulty in making ends meet in home budgets, paying medical expenses were a challenge for 41% of people.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The CARES Act was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020, to ensure that every American has access to the care they need during the COVID-19 pandemic and to address the economic fallout from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19. The process of making HIPAA updates is slow, as the lack of HIPAA changes in 2019, 2020, and 2021 has shown.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Until health plans adopt more artful designs incorporating behavioral economic nudges that are meaningful and relevant to individual patient-members, self-rationing care in American will continue and, ironically, lead to greater spending in the long run with people putting off necessary tests, prescription drugs, and preventive care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. voters through 2019, and on the Presidential debate stages for both Democrats and Republicans leading up to the parties’ nominees for 2020.

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