COVID-19
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Time: The Difficulty Of Counting the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Full Death Toll
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Read more: Time: The Difficulty Of Counting the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Full Death TollHCCI’s research on daily deaths during the coronavirus pandemic was featured in a Time article. From the article: “City health officials reported about 200 at-home deaths per day during the height of the pandemic, compared with a daily average of 35 between 2013 and 2017. Again, experts believe that excess is presumably caused either directly…
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CNN: Daily deaths in US now more than 10% higher than in previous years
Read more: CNN: Daily deaths in US now more than 10% higher than in previous yearsHCCI’s research on daily deaths during the coronavirus pandemic was featured on CNN. From the article: “The number of people dying each day in the United States since early April has been consistently more than 10% higher than in previous years, according to a new report from the Health Care Cost Institute in Washington. The…
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Health Affairs: Despite The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, COVID-19 Evaluation Is Not Necessarily Free
Read more: Health Affairs: Despite The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, COVID-19 Evaluation Is Not Necessarily FreeHCCI’s 2018 Annual Report was cited in a Health Affairs article on coverage of COVID-19 testing. From the article: “Consider cost sharing for a privately insured patient under seven possible evaluation scenarios, shown in exhibit 1. First, if the patient is evaluated in person but does not receive any testing, cost sharing could be imposed…
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MarketWatch: How much does it cost to get tested for the coronavirus? Unfortunately the answer could depend on how good your insurance is
Read more: MarketWatch: How much does it cost to get tested for the coronavirus? Unfortunately the answer could depend on how good your insurance isHCCI’s research on emergency room billing was cited in a MarketWatch article on coronavirus testing. From the article: “It’s also important to get checked out by a doctor first because if you skip the doctor and go straight to the emergency room, you run the risk of your insurer refusing to cover the ER visit,…