Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). I wrote my first post on Health Populi nearly eleven years ago Labor Day week 2007.

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Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience 117

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.

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Mental health Medical Billing 207

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.

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Medical Billing Primary Care Pharmaceuticals 223

Health Populi

JULY 19, 2022

The chart on the High Financial Toll of Cancer demonstrates that people dealing with cancer face a greater financial risk of using up most of their savings, skipping or delaying care due to cost, withdrawing money early from college or retirement savings accounts for medical bills, and declaring bankruptcy or losing homes.

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Medical Billing 218

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

84% of Americans told the Foundation that they were concerned about how much health care costs will affect them in the future, with 42% of patients saying they couldn’t afford to pay over $500 for an unexpected medical bill. Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers.

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Pharmaceuticals Medical Billing Medicare Mental health 136

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

National Medical Billing Services (St. National Medical Billing Services provides revenue cycle outsourcing services for ASCs and affiliated surgeons. Impact Advisors is a healthcare technology consulting firm founded in 2007; a decade later, in 2017, Consulting Magazine ranked the company No.

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Leadership Nursing Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 32

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

Across the various types of personal health care spending, more Hispanic people and people earning less than $50,000 a year are concerned about medical costs. Health care costs now feel like this to folks like those feeling the acute pinch of medical costs in 2020.

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Medical Billing Medicare Health Policy 282