The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2025

The company was successful initially and went public in 2021 via a merger with a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) and had a market capitalization of $6 billion. In February 2021, the company had its highest end-of-day stock price of $353.0; however, the share value has been tumbling since, reaching a low of $1.27

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Relias

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That’s why WFMH has chosen for its 2021 theme, “Mental Health in an Unequal World.”. The high cost of mental health treatment, including insufficient insurance coverage, was also highlighted in the study. In March 2021, KFF found that 47% of adults are still reporting negative impacts on their mental health due to the pandemic.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 14, 2024

For instance, CAR-T was given to myeloma patients in 2014, but we only learned it can cause Parkinsonism in 2021. In fact, the FDA’s accelerated approval won’t grant access to new drugs, but rather, I fear, is a grand strategy to force insurers and Medicare to pay for these uncertain drugs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

When high-deductible health plans became part of health insurance design in America, they were lauded as giving patients “more skin in the game” of health care payments. “Instead, they’ve faced thousands of dollars in bills as health insurers shifted costs onto patients through higher deductibles.” “U.S.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

Ballooning insurance premiums bloated administrative costs, and an opaque, middleman-driven system have left businesses with the highest healthcare costs in the worldtwice as much as top global competitors. The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2021 imposes strict new fiduciary requirements on employers that sponsor health plans.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Getting the best insurance for Medicare will require in-depth research to obtain a better idea of the best options available. After you educate yourself on insurance plans and learn what to look for, you can […]. The article What Is The Best Insurance To Get With Medicare? Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

Fast-forward through the 1990s and the advent of PBMs — pharmacy benefit management companies — the intermediaries managing drug benefits for health insurance plans. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies. Now: consider Costco.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2021

And in 2021, the focus on compliance is expected to increase. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) affects thousands of organizations across the […]. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

A settlement has been agreed to resolve a lawsuit against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) over a 2021 ransomware attack. RIPTA announced the data breach on December 23, 2021.The

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. voters in late January 2021, culminating in a report, The COVID Effect: Consumer Expectations for Health Care Coverage, Cost and Quality in 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of U.S. Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The medical establishment and insurance entities, including Medicare and Medicaid, don’t seem to be paying attention to our giant blind spots. And peanut and other food allergies that were rare 50 years ago are now common and can be life-threatening. America is getting sicker. Yet no one in our health care system is asking why.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. Among those covered with insurance, one-half had employer-sponsored insurance, 1 in 4 Medicare, and 13%, individual cover. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By TREVOR VAN MIERLO In 2021, digital mental health and substance use startups attracted a record-breaking $5.1 What were left with entering into 2025 are a smorgasbord of solutions clamoring to attach themselves to traditional enterprise incumbents (Health Insurance Providers, Electronic Health Records, Hospital Systems).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

The reality of patients entering doctors’ offices expecting to deal with their health care cost challenges is spelled out in The Increasing Role of Physician Practices as Bill Collectors – Destined for Failure , published in JAMA , 30 July 2021.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Medical insurance verification software is developed to automate the process of verifying patients’ insurance coverages. This software is connected to the insurance company’s database to retrieve real-time data on a patient’s insurance status. In 2022, 92.1 percent of people, or 304.0 percent and 36.1

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2022

To explain this surprising finding, the researchers explain the methodology for this analysis: using data from claims in commercially-insured PPO among a largely working-age (younger) population which potentially left out patients with cancer consuming high-cost end-of-life care.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services has proposed a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2021 data breach that exposed the data of up to 350,000 patients.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.

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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. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

In movies in particular, we’ve seen health care costs and hassles play featured in plotlines in As Good as it Gets [theme: health insurance coverage], M*A*S*H [war and its medical impacts are hell], and Philadelphia [HIV/AIDS in the era of The Band Played On], among dozens of others. Here’s the ad you can watch for yourself.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

health care administrative spend that could be freed up to, for example, cover more peoples’ health insurance or extend food benefits to bolster nutrition security and prevent physical wasting during cancer treatment for a person enrolled in Medicaid.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Trends In Healthcare Data Breach Statistics Our healthcare data breach statistics clearly show there has been an upward trend in data breaches over the past 14 years, with 2021 seeing more data breaches reported than any other year since records first started being published by OCR. 2021 was a bad year for data breaches with 45.9

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 17, 2025

The first unauthorized access occurred in February 2021 and continued until February 2023. In addition, the files accessed by the former employee contained names, contact information, dates of birth, health insurance information, and Social Security numbers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2022

physicians mindsets and mental health, Medscape polled 13,069 physicians across 29 specialties between late June and September 2021 via a 10-minute online survey. Prior to COVID-19, 68% of physicians said they were happy with work and life; currently (2021), only 47% of doctors said they were happy.

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Medical Economics

JANUARY 9, 2025

million more enrollees compared to 2021. With time still left to enroll, the 2025 marketplace open enrollment period has seen 11.6

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Insurance 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the challenges has been price transparency, which is the central premise of this weekend’s New York Times research-rich article by reporters Sarah Kliff and Josh Katz: Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. in July 2021, the lowest read since December 2011. Here’s Why.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Apria Healthcare, an Indianapolis-based provider of home healthcare equipment and related services, has agreed to pay $6,400,000 to resolve all claims related to data breaches in 2019 and 2021 that affected 1,869,598 individuals. A further hacking incident was experienced in 2021 and was disclosed by Apria Healthcare in May 2023.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2021

who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot have a welcoming side-effect: peace of mind and mental health, according to a survey conducted by Walgreens in April 2021. adults over 18 years of age between April 19 and 21st, 2021. Most people in the U.S. Walgreens conducted the poll online among 1,500 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee. These new workflows will also impact what the MMI will look like in 2021 and beyond. That is a 4.1%

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). I’ve returned to the U.S. Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. voters in late January 2021, culminating in a report, The COVID Effect: Consumer Expectations for Health Care Coverage, Cost and Quality in 2021.

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DrChrono

DECEMBER 28, 2021

During 2021 open enrollment, 45% of Americans were considering changing their insurance plans, and 4.6 million Americans have signed up for health insurance coverage on Healthcare.gov or their state’s marketplace in that period.

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