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Healthcare Coverage for HIV Provider Visits Before and After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Conclusions. In expansion state sites, half of PLWH relying on RWHAP/Uncomp coverage shifted to Medicaid, while in New York and nonexpansion state sites, reliance on RWHAP/Uncomp remained constant. In the first half of 2014, the ACA did not eliminate the need for RWHAP safety net provider visit coverage.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases - July 14, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Berry, S. A., Fleishman, J. A., Yehia, B. R., Cheever, L. W., Hauck, H., Korthuis, P. T., Mathews, W. C., Keruly, J., Nijhawan, A. E., Agwu, A. L., Somboonwit, C., Moore, R. D., Gebo, K. A., for the HIV Research Network, for the HIV Research Network, Edel Tags: HIV/AIDS Source Type: research
HIV Testing Trends Among Persons With Insurance or Medicaid HIV Testing Trends Among Persons With Insurance or Medicaid
This study examined trends in HIV testing from 2014-2019 among persons with commercial insurance or Medicaid. Is the goal of 95% of persons with HIV being aware of their infection attainable by 2025?Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - September 8, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS Journal Article Source Type: news
What the Atlanta HIV Data Tells Us About Public Health in America
This article was initially published in Georgia Health News.
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB AIDSVu Atlanta CDC HIV Maithri Vangala Source Type: blogs
The Affordable Care Act May Increase The Number Of People Getting Tested For HIV By Nearly 500,000 By 2017 ACA Implementation
People are much less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior if they know that they are HIV-positive. Unfortunately, more than 18 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States are unaware of their HIV status, and about half of new HIV infections are transmitted from that "HIV unaware" population. For these reasons, HIV testing is at the forefront of HIV prevention strategies in the United States. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may support these strategies, since gaining coverage increases the likelihood of being tested for HIV. We modeled the impact of the ACA on HIV testing, diagnoses, and awareness of...
Source: Health Affairs - March 3, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Wagner, Z., Wu, Y., Sood, N. Tags: Access To Care, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Health Reform, AIDS/HIV, Medicaid, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Quality Of Care, Safety-Net Systems, Health Spending, Affordable Care Act, Demography, Determinants Of Health ACA Implementation Source Type: research
Behavioral and Clinical Characteristics of Persons Receiving Medical Care for HIV Infection - Medical Monitoring Project, United States, 2009.
B Prevention, CDC
Abstract
Problem: As of December 31, 2009, an estimated 864,748 persons were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and six U.S.-dependent areas. Whereas HIV surveillance programs in the United States collect information about persons with a diagnosis of HIV infection, supplemental surveillance systems collect in-depth information about the behavioral and clinical characteristics of persons receiving outpatient medical care for HIV infection. These data are needed to reduce HIV-related morbidity and mortality and HIV transmission....
Source: MMWR Surveill Summ - June 20, 2014 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Blair JM, Fagan JL, Frazier EL, Do A, Bradley H, Valverde EE, McNaghten A, Beer L, Zhang S, Huang P, Mattson CL, Freedman MS, Johnson CH, Sanders CC, Spruit-McGoff KE, Heffelfinger JD, Skarbinski J, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tags: MMWR Surveill Summ Source Type: research
Reimagining How The Safety Net Provides Treatment For People Living With HIV
At an individual patient level, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides a number of straightforward benefits for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH). Many previously uninsured Americans now have access to coverage under the law’s Medicaid expansion and new health insurance Marketplaces, where all qualified health plans must cover preventative services like cancer screening. The ACA also prohibits insurers from excluding people from coverage based on pre-existing conditions (including HIV). However, the law’s broader, system-wide impact on the delivery of HIV care is less certain.
For more than 25 years, access to high qu...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 9, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Preeti Malani Tags: Costs and Spending Innovations in Care Delivery Insurance and Coverage Long-term Services and Supports Medicaid and CHIP Public Health Quality HIV/AIDS Medicaid expansion pre-existing conditions Prevention Virginia Source Type: blogs
New HIV Diagnoses Have Declined, But Not For Black Gay And Bisexual Men
At the end of 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control announced that diagnoses of HIV in the United States declined significantly over the last decade. On the surface, it was good news: rates of new diagnoses for the general population dropped 19 percent between 2005 and 2014. With some populations hard hit by HIV, we saw even greater improvements: new diagnoses are down 42 percent among Black women over the past decade, down 35 percent among heterosexuals, and down 65 percent among people who inject drugs. White gay and bisexual men experienced an 18 percent decline in new diagnoses.
But Black and Latino gay and bisexu...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Sean Cahill Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Medicaid and CHIP Population Health Public Health Quality HIV/AIDS LGBT issues Medicaid expansion Prevention sex education Source Type: blogs
Trump Wants to End HIV Within 10 Years. Here ’s What That Would Take, According to Experts
About 1.1 million Americans currently live with HIV, and approximately 40,000 are infected each year, according to federal data. But in his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump promised to “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years” — a plan that hinges on a multi-agency push for better diagnosis, treatment and prevention in at-risk communities, health officials said Wednesday.
Trump introduced the plan during his annual address on Tuesday but offered few details. Health officials fleshed out the plan during a call with reporters on Wednesday.
The initiative will be ove...
Source: TIME: Health - February 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthytime HIV/AIDS onetime Source Type: news
HIV Tests And New Diagnoses Declined After California Budget Cuts, But Reallocating Funds Helped Reduce Impact Targeting Resources
Historically, California supplemented federal funding of HIV prevention and testing so that Californians with HIV could become aware of their infection and obtain lifesaving treatment. However, budget deficits in 2009 led the state to eliminate its supplemental funding for HIV prevention. We analyzed the impact of California’s HIV resource allocation change between state fiscal years 2009 and 2011. We found that the number of HIV tests declined 19 percent, from 66,629 to 53,760, in local health jurisdictions with high HIV burden. In low-burden jurisdictions, the number of HIV tests declined 90 percent,...
Source: Health Affairs - March 3, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Leibowitz, A. A., Byrnes, K., Wynn, A., Farrell, K. Tags: Access To Care, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Insurance Coverage, AIDS/HIV, Legal/Regulatory Issues, Medicaid, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Quality Of Care, Safety-Net Systems, Health Spending, State/Local Issues - California, Demography, Determ Source Type: research
Survey Finds That Many Prisons And Jails Have Room To Improve HIV Testing And Coordination Of Postrelease Treatment HIV Testing
Early diagnosis of HIV and effective antiretroviral treatment are key elements in efforts to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with HIV. Incarcerated populations are disproportionately affected by HIV, with the disease’s prevalence among inmates estimated to be three to five times higher than among the general population. Correctional institutions offer important opportunities to test for HIV and link infected people to postrelease treatment services. To examine HIV testing and policies that help HIV-positive people obtain treatment in the community after release, we administered a survey to the medical d...
Source: Health Affairs - March 3, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Solomon, L., Montague, B. T., Beckwith, C. G., Baillargeon, J., Costa, M., Dumont, D., Kuo, I., Kurth, A., Rich, J. D. Tags: Access To Care, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Health Reform, Hospitals, AIDS/HIV, Legal/Regulatory Issues, Medicaid, Pharmaceuticals, Physicians, Public Health, Quality Of Care, Safety-Net Systems, Health Spending, Evidence-Based Medicine, Affordab Source Type: research
Hospitalizations in the United States among HIV-Infected Individuals in Short-Stay Hospitals, 1982 to 2010
Conclusions:
Hospitalizations and days of care for HIV-infected individuals have decreased dramatically in recent years and at rates greater than for HIV-uninfected individuals yet involve some populations and affect certain hospitals disproportionately.
Source: Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (JIAPAC) - September 16, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tai, M., Liu, T., Merchant, R. C. Tags: HIV Clinical Management Source Type: research
Nearly Half Of US Adults Living With HIV Received Federal Disability Benefits In 2009 HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis
This study offers a baseline against which to measure the impacts of recently proposed or enacted changes to Medicaid and private insurance markets, including the Affordable Care Act and proposed revisions to the Social Security Administration’s HIV Infection Listings.
Source: Health Affairs - October 5, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Huang, Y.-L. A., Frazier, E. L., Sansom, S. L., Farnham, P. G., Shrestha, R. K., Hutchinson, A. B., Fagan, J. L., Viall, A. H., Skarbinski, J. Tags: Access To Care, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, AIDS/HIV, Legal/Regulatory Issues, Public Health, Chronic Care, Quality Of Care, Safety-Net Systems, Consumer Issues HIV/AIDS & amp; Hepatitis Source Type: research
New In The Journal: Are Foundations Still Interested In HIV/AIDS?
An update on philanthropic funding in the area of HIV/AIDS is the subject of the GrantWatch column in the May 2017 issue of Health Affairs. This epidemic has been going on for decades, so it was time to see whether foundations still have it on their radar screens.
And as I mention in the column, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that annual HIV infections in the United States declined 18 percent overall from 2008 to 2014. But folks should not be complacent: the CDC says HIV remains “a serious health problem” in the United States, especially in the South.
I learned of some interesting stats a...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee-Lee Prina Tags: Global Health Policy GrantWatch Public Health Africa Children Chronic Care Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW HIV testing HIV/AIDS PrEP Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Social Media Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s Budget Asks for Nearly $300 Million to End the U.S. HIV Epidemic Within 10 Years
President Donald Trump’s proposed 2020 budget includes nearly $300 million meant to “defeat the HIV/AIDS epidemic” in the U.S. — even as it calls for a 12% reduction in total funding to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
During his February State of the Union address, Trump announced an ambitious plan to “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.” During a subsequent call with reporters, health officials said the initiative would focus on 48 at-risk counties across the country and would involve promoting early HIV treatment and diagnosis, expanding ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized HIV/AIDS Source Type: news
Nearly 60,000 Uninsured And Low-Income People With HIV/AIDS Live In States That Are Not Expanding Medicaid ACA Implementation
Health insurance gives people living with HIV/AIDS access to medical care, including antiretroviral therapy, which in turn can dramatically improve health and reduce the risk of HIV transmission. Yet many people living with HIV/AIDS remain uninsured. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks to decrease the number of uninsured Americans in part by extending Medicaid coverage to individuals with incomes of up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. However, many states are not moving forward with this expansion. Using national HIV surveillance data and data from the National Health Interview Survey, we estimated that ne...
Source: Health Affairs - March 3, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Snider, J. T., Juday, T., Romley, J. A., Seekins, D., Rosenblatt, L., Goldman, D. P. Tags: Access To Care, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Health Reform, Insurance Coverage, AIDS/HIV, Legal/Regulatory Issues, Medicaid, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Quality Of Care, Safety-Net Systems, Health Spending, Affordable Care Act, Demography, Det Source Type: research
