The provision of Qualified Health Plans, or QHPs, that meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act has become an integral part of many health plan offerings. Now that numerous repeal requests and lawsuits filed against the ACA over the years have failed, health plans can finally invest with confidence in this line of business. …
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People take photos of fireworks on Chinese New Year’s Eve on Jan 21, 2023 in Chongqing, China. Vcc | Visual China Group | Getty Images China celebrated the Lunar New Year on Sunday with its people praying for health after three years of stress and financial hardship under the pandemic, as officials reported nearly 13,000 …
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Traditionally offering virtual assistance and navigation services to employers, inclusive health is now moving into the health plan space. It is partnering with Point32Health to serve its commercial members in the LGBTQ+ community, companies announced Wednesday. Based in San Francisco Health included offers patients access to virtual and in-person urgent care, primary care, behavioral health, …
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Hong Kong Cnn — Nearly 250 million people in China may have contracted Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, according to an internal estimate by the nation’s top health officials, according to Bloomberg News and the Financial Times. If correct, the estimate – which CNN cannot independently confirm – would represent about 18% …
New data reveals that 28% of Americans have gotten sick or injured while on vacation. Illness and injury are among the worst-case scenarios when traveling, because in addition to ruining our plans, we are far from our medical team and perhaps even from the comfort of family, friends or colleagues who could help us. If …
Social, economic and geographical disadvantages create significant disparities in health care, such as lower quality of care and lower health outcomes. To help improve these issues, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) redesigned the global and professional direct contracting model under the new name, the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community …
A disabled elderly African American man is getting out of a car, in his wheelchair. His wife is helping him, holding the door open. Focus on the man. Healthcare needs better infrastructure. Millions of Americans, covered by the nation’s safety net programs that span Medicare Advantage and Medicaid Managed Care, rely on transportation to access …
Achieving health equity benefits both payers and members of health care. Culturally diverse publics experience disparities in access to health care and health outcomes. Patients with poor English proficiency (LEP) experience poor health outcomes across the board, including emergency room visits and above-average hospital stays. Most healthcare leaders agree that we need to work to …
Cnn — China’s top health officials pledged to rectify Covid-19 control measures to reduce its impact on people’s lives, while deflecting blame for public frustration away from the policy itself, in their first press briefing from when protests against the government’s strict zero-Covid policy erupted over the weekend. Lockdowns to suppress the spread of the …
Ask any healthcare organization what their top priority is today and many will say healthcare equity. But when it comes to creating real change, lip service isn’t going to cut it, said one executive. “It’s a virtue signal,” said Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Health Plan, in a recent interview. “It’s fashionable to say that …
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