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Jeremy Cavness

Jeremy is a former CareATC marketing team member.
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Embracing The Role Of Family Caregivers In The U.S. Health System

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on September 21, 2016

As America's elderly population swells in number, the need for compassionate, patient-centered care is increasingly necessary. In order to serve tens of millions of elderly adults, formal service providers and facilities would need to change fundamentally, and increase in number by an enormous margin.

Instead, the personal health care industry seems to be accepting help from a non-traditional source: the informal caregiver.

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Post Topics Health Reform

Is Uber Already the 'Uber of Healthcare?'

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on September 21, 2016

The phrase "Uber of Healthcare" has been thrown around recently to describe some future healthcare bellweather which will disrupt the industry for the better.

What if Uber is already filling this role?

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How ACA Marketplace Premiums Measure Up to Expectations

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on September 6, 2016

ACA-associated healthcare price hikes have been a hot news item for some time now. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, this isn't going to change anytime soon.

The forecast for 2017 is higher healthcare premiums, as the ACA's temporary reinsurance program comes to an end, and insurers adjust to the reality of a new American healthcare system.

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Post Topics Health Reform

Why It Matters: Health Care

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on August 18, 2016

Today, 9 in 10 Americans have health insurance. This is a higher rate than the country has ever seen before. But there are still millions of citizens without insurance, and 2017 could lead to choppy waters for the Affordable Care Act.

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Post Topics Health Reform

Healthcare Industry Pushing Back Against Hospital Rating System

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on August 16, 2016

A new hospital rating system has been introduced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Not everybody is happy about it, especially after debut ratings scored some major national hospitals at 2 or 3 stars out of 5.

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Even With Health Care Reform, It’s Hard to Find a Doctor

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on August 8, 2016

The ACA has helped lots of previously uninsured Americans gain health coverage. But one of the side effects is that it's harder for everyone to get an appointment with a doctor.

The University of Wisconsin used "Secret Shoppers" to try to get appointments with 700 doctors on Blue Cross and Blue Shield directories.

In 70% of cases, no appointment was available.

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Post Topics Health Reform

Healthcare Industry Losing Average of $2.2 Million per Data Breach

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on August 4, 2016

2016 has been a year of data breaches. Whether it be your local healthcare provider or a major political candidate, nobody seems to be able to hang onto your private data.

Within the past two years, most American healthcare providers have experienced more than one data breach. During that time, they've paid an average $2.2 Million to cover the repair and recovery costs.

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Healthcare Industry is Among the Top Users of Encryption

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on July 25, 2016

Despite ongoing headlines about lost and stolen user data, it's not for lack of spending on the part of America's consumer-facing industries. Healthcare tops the list.

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Supreme Court Term Mixed Bag for Healthcare Industry

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on July 22, 2016

Last year's King vs. Burwell was the biggest Supreme Court decision for American healthcare.

Even though 2016's Supreme Court healthcare debates haven't commanded headlines to the same extent, the six decisions still have had important ramifications.

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Post Topics Health Reform

Republicans Offer a Plan to Replace Obamacare

Posted by Jeremy Cavness on July 12, 2016

The Republican-led House has released a comprehensive healthcare plan that would likely replace the Affordable Care Act in the event of a Donald Trump Presidency. Republican coalitions have set forth multiple attacks against Obamacare, some even requiring Executive Veto to stop.

The 37-page plan is the first complete Republican plan to change American healthcare.

The plan relies on an expansion of private health savings accounts, subsidized tax credits for private health insurance costs, a weakening of state-specific market boundaries, and many other ideas.

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Post Topics Health Reform