Several policy changes, including the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision and enhanced Marketplace tax credits, improved health coverage and access during Covid-19, a new report showed.
About half (47%) of nonelderly uninsured veterans will be eligible for Medicaid or subsidies through the ACA Marketplace in 2024, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
If the remaining 10 states expanded Medicaid, uninsured rates would greatly drop for women of reproductive age, non-Hispanic Black adults and young adults, a new Urban Institute report found.
A recent court decision could lead to women losing access to free mammogram screenings, a new Urban Institute report showed. Without insurance, mammograms can cost up to $560 in out-of-pocket expenses.
A recent Urban Institute report found that the uninsurance rate for nonelderly people who aren’t citizens will be 39.2% in 2024, about four times higher than it is for the entire U.S. population at 9.8%.
About 8% of Black adults and 7% of Hispanic adults skipped care because of transportation challenges in the last year, compared to 4% of White adults and 2% of Asian adults, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition, 14% of adults with low family incomes passed on care.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
After three years of not having to renew Medicaid coverage, redeterminations are set to return April 1. Yet, more than 64% of enrollees are unaware. Constant repetition and outreach from healthcare players will be needed to combat this, one payer expert said.
Of the billions of dollars provided by the government to support providers during the pandemic, $11.7 billion has been allocated but not spent, $7.1 billion has not been allocated and $8 billion has been returned for various reasons, including that the organization recovered faster than expected.
Roughly a third of adults had a telehealth visit in the first 6 months of the pandemic, according to a new survey conducted by the Urban Institute. But not everyone who wanted a telehealth visit was able to access it, leaving some adults with unmet care needs.
Researchers at the Urban Institute found that up to 10 million people could lose their job-based insurance due to Covid-19 by the end of the year.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
One goal of the simulation platform, developed by Kognito, is to improve the quality of interactions between patients and physicians.
OpenNotes, once an academic experiment to see if physicians would accept patients viewing encounter notes and if patients could decipher the medicalese, is getting ready to scale, thanks to a large donation.
Two-thirds of the 131 carriers that offered silver-level preferred provider organization plans in 2015 will either drop them entirely or offer fewer of them in January, according to an analysis by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The study labeled 11 percent of plans “extra small” because they covered fewer than 10 percent of physicians in a plan’s region.
Ten years after Robert Wood Johnson Foundation allocated grant funding to support the Games for Health Project, it’s coming to an end. Next year the annual Games for Health conference may be held as part of the annual HIMSS conference starting next April in Chicago, according to a source familiar with the project. In a […]