CMS: 2021 Medicare Advantage premiums to hit lowest point since 2007
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
CMS: 2021 Medicare Advantage premiums to hit lowest point since 2007. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 19:45.
2007 Related Topics 
CMS: 2020 Medicare Advantage rates lowest since 2007 as supplemental benefits take hold
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Premiums for Medicare Advantage plans are expected to decline next year by 14% compared with 2019 as plans aim to offer more choices, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Medicare 
93
93 Medicare 93
93 Join 48,000+
Insiders
Sign Up for our Newsletter
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Webinars
Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
Trending Sources
Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
I wrote my first post on Health Populi nearly eleven years ago Labor Day week 2007. of the GDP and that PPO reached $28,166 — nearly two times the 2007 cost. The theme was, “Health Care is the #1 Line Item In Our National Economy…and Taking More Out of Your Pocket.” of the U.S. .” of the U.S.
Medical Billing 117
117 
The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Accelerated Our Demand for Wellness – Learning from Ogilvy
Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2020
The first chart illustrates that most people see each of the seven industries studied as wellness channels, from the more obvious health-oriented categories like skincare and food to hospitality (hotels and airlines), financial services, and automotive (which I’ve covered as far back as 2007 here on Health Populi).
Public Health 348
348 
Job #1 for Next President: Reduce Health Care Costs – Commonwealth Fund & NBC News Poll
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2020
This concept has underpinned Health Populi since I wrote the first post in this blog in September 2007 on the cost of health care, featuring this picture from Tom’s Shell characterizing the high costs of petrol at the pump in the midst of the oil crisis.
Medical Billing 282
282 
Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health
Health Populi
JULY 22, 2021
The IQVIA team are serious about getting to the clinical evidence, and this year point out a growing base of over 2,000 studies published since 2007 — 1,500 of which were published in the past five years, so the pace of change is tilting dramatically up and to the right.
Digital Health 374
374 
LegitScript Certification for Telemedicine Businesses Now Recognized by Google in Indonesia and the Philippines
Digital Health Global
MARCH 12, 2025
About LegitScript Since 2007, LegitScript has been committed to making the internet and payment ecosystems safer and more transparent. LegitScript Healthcare Merchant Certification provides a recognized stamp of approval for telehealth providers and unlocks an important advertising opportunity on Googles platform.
Telemedicine 88
88 
Re-Tweeting Sanofi’s Tweet: Inclusion Matters for Health, Wellness, and the Body Politic
Health Populi
MAY 30, 2018
.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The uniquely American challenge of health disparities, especially relating to race, is a topic I’ve covered many times since the launch of Health Populi in 2007.
Pharmaceuticals 224
224 
Meeting Women’s Health and Fitness Needs
Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life
OCTOBER 24, 2024
With the launch of the iPhone in 2007, personal communications changed as consumers slowly adapted to accessing friends, entertainment, finance, shopping… almost everything through their smartphones. As Apple famously announced in their seminal ad campaign in 2009, there’s an app for that.
52 
The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2023
As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%.
Life Science 218
218 
The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4
Health Populi
MAY 2, 2019
are concepting, which I wrote about back in 2007 focusing on Toyota’s wellness car concept. Promising, promising. With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. It’s personal stuff, and it’s a tiny little bit about “you.”
Digital Health 308
308 
As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
Here is the first “good news” line chart, showing declining medical trend from 2007 to next year in 2019. That’s one-half the high point at nearly 12% in 2007. The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%.
Medicare 159
159 
In 2024 U.S. Consumers Will Mash Financial Resolutions With Those For Physical Health and Mental Health, Fidelity Finds
Health Populi
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here in Health Populi since launching in 2007, we’ve tracked the growth of patients-as-consumers’ financial wellness as part of overall health. That’s due to one-third of people expecting to have significantly less money due to feeling the pinch of higher costs-of-living.
Mental health 207
207 
How Consumers’ Belt-Tightening Could Impact Health/Care – Insights from Deloitte’s Retail Team
Health Populi
MAY 31, 2019
Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. Furthermore, income disparity between wealthy Americans and people earning lower-incomes dramatically widened: between 2007-2017, income for high-income earners grew 1,305 percent more than lower-incomes.
Primary Care 153
153 
Accolade files for $100M IPO. Here are 5 things to know
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 1, 2020
Founded in 2007, the company provides a health benefits platform for employers. Health technology company Accolade filed Friday to raise as much as $100 million in an initial public offering. Accolade's S-1 filing reveals key business details publicly for the first time. Here are five things to know.
Which doctors are most likely to get in trouble for fraudulent billing? Study offers new clues
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Physicians were more likely to be excluded from public insurance reimbursement programs due to fraud between 2007 and 2017 if they were older, male, or had osteopathic training.
94 
Self-Care Is Healthcare In Consumers’ Hands, Peaking on Google Trends
Health Populi
MARCH 15, 2019
in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019. Today, the number of searches on Google using the phrase “self-care” reached a high, shown in the line graph I created on Google Trends and marked up in red. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results.
Mental health 293
293 
Food Insecurity, Energy Prices, and Medical Debt Spike in February 2022
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
I started the Health Populi blog in September 2007 with a post titled “Health Care is the #1 Line Item in Our National Economy… and Taking More Out of Your Pocket,” displaying this sign from Tom’s Shell gas station comparing the price of gas to an “Arm, Leg, or your First Born” posted on their sign in 2007.
Primary Care 177
177 
Virtual care startup Charlie Health expands to 25 states to tackle escalating youth mental health crisis
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 3, 2023
In 2019, 13% of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, up 60% from 2007, according to federal data. is facing a growing youth mental health crisis.
Primary Care 2.0 – How Crossover Health is “Re-Bundling” Health Care
Health Populi
JANUARY 26, 2021
Scott founded Crossover Health in 2007 with the vision of surrounding the patient with care. and Scott were with me and the emerging Health 2.0 movement as Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya were convening the first conference, gathering input from us and others who knew the Internet would change the nature of health care.
Primary Care 194
194 
Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Those were the early days of the formation of patient social networks [Patients Like me was founded in 2004, and WEGO Health and Stupid Cancer in 2007]. .” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago.
Primary Care 212
212 
BluByrd and DrChrono Deliver Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 20, 2024
I tried about five different EHRs starting back in 2007, said Dr. Davis. Finding an EHR Partner Dr. Davis began his search for an EHR solution before the start of the Meaningful Use incentives in 2009. Back then, most of those systems were built for compliance and not built for ease-of-use.
National Health Spending Will Reach Nearly 20% of U.S. GDP By 2027
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
recorded in 1990-2007. For context, note that general price inflation in the U.S. for the 12 months ending January 2019 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This growth rate for health care costs exceeds every period measured since the high of 7.2%
Medicare 227
227 
Roundup: LKCMedicine launching more AI, digital health courses and more briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Since joining Philips in 2007, he has held leadership roles in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and at the company's global headquarters in the Netherlands. Quinlan most recently led the company's MR, CT and diagnostic X-ray imaging businesses in APAC, Japan, India, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.
Digital Health 189
189 
Why CTA’s Shepherding AI Is Important for Re-Imagining Healthcare
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
For example, here’s my Health Populi write-up of Toyota , for example, and its wellness car from 2007. Connected cars are emerging as a “third space” for health and wellness, and Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, Audi and other car companies have been working on concept cars in health for years. Now, consider Humana’s involvement.
Telemedicine 194
194 
FBI, DOJ bust 24 people in $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 10, 2019
” Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which maintains 14 strike forces operating in 23 districts, has charged nearly 4,000 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $14 billion.
Telemedicine 167
167 
Ten Years – Technology for Older Adults – 2009-2019
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 10, 2019
Then the iPhone emerged in 2007 , along with the now-declining Fitbit. Telehealth got its first big workout with veterans in 2007. Consider the emerging general consumer technology market. Google’s IPO was in 2004 and Facebook (coincidentally) emerged that year.
Telehealth 110
110 Telehealth 110
110 
Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers
Health Populi
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Zocdoc was founded in 2007 “with a mission to give power to the patient,” the company mantra goes. In this first research study Zocdoc has conducted on patients’ perspectives on health care, the company commissioned an online survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers 18 and over in November 2023.
Primary Care 218
218 
Treat Exclusion Like Pollution: The Benefits of Embedding Accessibility Into the Digital Workplace and How to Go About It
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 19, 2021
A child born in Japan in 2007 will have more […]. Like decarbonization, inclusion is essential to a truly sustainable society. For millions of people, accessibility is the key to inclusion; and just like the environment, it requires our action and attention.
Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2018
Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007.
Medical Billing 223
223 
Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 2, 2019
The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy.
Telehealth 85
85 
Gas ‘N Healthcare – How Transportation Links to Health Care Access and Financial Health
Health Populi
JULY 19, 2022
I launched my Health Populi blog in September 2007 with this cartoon from the New Yorker, originally published copyright Michael Maslin in 1994.
Medical Billing 218
218 Medical Billing 218
218 
For older adults, the future of wearables is predictive
Aging in Place Technology Watch
APRIL 21, 2021
The Quantified Self , coined in 2007 as a fringe concept , is now mainstream and migrating rapidly into personal health management. Also notable, considering that most wearables are still paired with them, smartphone ownership has risen most sharply among the 70+, with 77% of survey responders indicating they own one.
Connected Health 146
146 
Everyone – not just older adults – has lost the tech user interface war
Aging in Place Technology Watch
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The BMW iDrive example from 2007 prompted some drivers to turn around and bring the car back to the showroom. It’s almost quaint to look back at what we complained about – though some of the famous user interface disasters are well-described in a Scientific American article – Windows 8, BMW iDrive, TV remotes.
139 
Knack Global Acquires Anesthesia RCM Leader, Merrick Management, Inc.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
This is our ninth acquisition since Knack’s founding in 2007, and we remain dedicated to investing resources alongside our investment partner, LKCM Headwater, to both organically and inorganically expand our high-quality RCM solutions and specialties.”
RCM 122
122 
Core Sound Imaging, Provider of Medical Imaging Platform Studycast, Announces $80 Million Growth Investment from PSG
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
About Core Sound Imaging Since 2007, Core Sound Imaging has provided specialized solutions for the medical imaging workflow, including image storage, a zero-footprint viewer, and a robust suite of interpretation and structured reporting tools. Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal advisor to PSG.
Dozens charged in sprawling $1.2B telehealth and genetics fraud crackdown
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 22, 2022
Starting in 2007, the DOJ's healthcare Fraud Strike Force – operating in 27 districts nationwide – has charged more than 5,000 defendants who collectively billed federal healthcare programs and private insurers approximately $24.7 " THE LARGER TREND. billion, according to the department.
Telehealth 166
166 
Rush University Medical Center, clinicians hit with malpractice suit over birth defects
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 5, 2018
Rush University Medical Center and several of its clinicians were hit this week with a malpractice lawsuit that alleges a baby born at the hospital in 2007 was left disabled following a series of medical errors.
60 
The Grocery Store As Health Destination: Publix Produce for Kids and the Social Determinants of Health
Health Populi
JUNE 12, 2019
The prevalence of food insecurity for children in 2017 was equal to that of the 2007 pre-recession level of 8.3%. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The USDA Report on Household Food Security in the U.S. in 2017 , published in September 2018, found that 12% of U.S.
Public Health 174
174 Public Health 174
174 
Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family
Health Populi
OCTOBER 22, 2019
That was the theme that started the first Health Populi blog post in 2007. Money, the economy, health care costs — these three stressors are bound up together in the American’s personal and household health economy.
Pharmaceuticals 136
136 Pharmaceuticals 136
136 
Pendent medical alerts evolve – and will disappear
Aging in Place Technology Watch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
One positive -- it validated the business strategies of competitors, including the two Stanford MBAs that bought VRI in 2007. Eventually the segment reached such a level of recognition that others began to jump into the market as well, including Philips. Was that a good thing? Which they did.
124 Heating up competition with Apple in the smartwatch space, Google acquires Fitbit for $2.1B
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Fitbit launched in 2007 and was considered a pioneer of the consumer fitness tracking market, quickly becoming the market leader. Following media reports of a possible deal earlier this week, Google announced it is acquiring wearables company for $7.25 per share in cash, valuing the company at $2.1
58 
Harmony Healthcare IT Partners with Novacap to Accelerate Innovation and Growth in Healthcare Data Management
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Applying its sector-focused approach since 2007 in Industries, TMT, Financial Services, and Digital Infrastructure, Novacap’s deep domain expertise can accelerate company growth and create long-term value.
Healthcare IT 117
117 
Telepsychiatry saves east Texas hospitals $18 million over 7 years
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 28, 2019
“Newly available state funding in 2007 that was earmarked for special projects in crisis response helped us fuel the creation of a regional mental health authority that became the Burke Mental Health Emergency Center,” explained Susan Rushing, CEO of the Burke Mental Health Emergency Center.
Mental health 167
167 
Let's personalize your content