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The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

Sensible Medicine

. “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should make establishing payment codes for products involving women’s heart disease a priority to prompt private insurers to cover new service lines.” Insurers will be forced to raise rates to cover this new charge. What would I foresee as happening if CMS took action?

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Healthcare Data Breach Statistics

The HIPAA Journal

2023, OCR reported a 239% increase in hacking-related data breaches between January 1, 2018, and September 30, 2023, and a 278% increase in ransomware attacks over the same period. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches. In 2023, 79.7%

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

.” When the concept of therapies tailored to individual patients is explained, most people like the idea of diagnostic tools that can identify biological markers and marry to personal medical records data to help determine medical treatments that best fit them. This picture of U.S.

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A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four – The 2022 Milliman Medical Index

Health Populi

MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166. For my previous write-ups of the MMI, here are some links to check out… MMI 2021 The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021. MMI 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

territory of Guam, was investigated after a complaint was received about a December 2018 ransomware attack. The data was exposed online between August 2015 and July 2018. The first breach involved unauthorized access to the ePHI of 197,986 individuals betweenSeptember 25, 2018, and November 30, 2018. Warby Parker, Inc.,

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Automating Prior Authorizations: How AI Improves Patient Access to Medications

ACMA Blog

Many healthcare providers may prescribe treatments that are not considered routine or may be expensive, an insurance company may need prior authorization (PA) to determine whether they will cover what the healthcare providers recommends 4. The healthcare provider must get approval from the insurance company.

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Healthcare Costs Inspire Employer Activism and Employee Dissatisfaction – What PwC Found Behind the Numbers

Health Populi

Not that in 2018, 75% of employers offered these programs. For employer insights, HRI’s research included interviews with health industry executives representing 95 million insured employees and dependents, along with PwC’s 2019 Health and Well-being Touchstone Survey of 550 employers.