Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

This is what rationing health care looks like in America: one in two people in families dealing with a chronic health condition have difficulty affording paying medial bills before meeting a deductible, unexpected medical bills, co-payments for prescription drugs, co-payments for physician visits, and/or their monthly health insurance premium.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S. Overall, 57% of employers offer health benefits — equal to offer levels in 2018 and similar to the 2009 level of 59%.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

98% of Americans rank paying their medical bills is an important pain point in their patient journey, according to Embracing consumerism: Driving customer engagement in the healthcare financial journey , from Experian Health. Healthcare is a Come Together moment and opportunity in America for the 2018 mid-term elections.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2019

Medical costs have, in fact, ranked at the top of this list for three years in a row, with a five percentage point rise between 2018 and 2019. This is worrisome because Fidelity Investments’ latest calculations in April 2019 gauged that people retiring in 2018 at 65 will need $285,000 to cover medical costs in retirement.

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Medical Billing 176

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Chairman Powell spoke about health care costs with Yahoo Finance in 2018: “It’s no secret: It’s been true for a long time that with our uniquely expensive healthcare delivery system and the aging of our population, we’ve been on an unsustainable fiscal path for a long time.” ” (H/T Business Insider ).

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season. Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

adults 18 and over in September 2018 in English and Spanish. As the National Center for Health Statistics has reported , people with HDHPs are far more likely than those with traditional health plans to forgo or delay medical care or to be in a household that is having difficulty paying medical bills.”

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Medical Billing 159

Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. Julie discussed the Cleveland Clinic’s project on designing a better medical bill, detailing the organization’s design thinking on the inpatient journey and commitment to patient-centered care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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Primary Care Medicare Medical Billing Public Health 227

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine in December 2018 found that as out-of-pocket costs for insulin have increased over the past few years, many patients use less insulin than needed. The therapy treats thalassemia, a genetic disease that affects 1,000 people in the U.S. and 300,000 people worldwide.

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BioTech Medicare Medical Billing Patient Experience 166

Mend

JUNE 8, 2022

Today, patients prefer convenient payment options to stay on top of medical bills. Here’s Why Your Practice Should Automate Medical Billing. There are several reasons why switching from paper to automated patient billing. And when you automate healthcare billing, your practice is doing your part.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. Individuals and their families are overwhelmed with the information, tasks, steep medical bills and the ‘unknown’ that cancer brings and are trying to manage everything with limited to no support.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2024

Leveraging the latest communications technology offers three big advantages for patients and healthcare billers: Transparency in Billing One of the biggest hurdles to patient bill payment is a lack of transparency. Patients often find medical bills confusing and difficult to understand, making them hesitant to pay.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2019

Private equity and venture capital firms are in love with a legion of companies and startups touting the benefits of virtual doctors’ visits and telemedicine to revolutionize health care, investing almost $10 billion in 2018, a record for the sector. It was for a five-minute phone call answering a question about a possible infection.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

Examples can include a medical billing company, a company that manages a health care provider’s electronic health record system, or a law firm providing legal services to a health care provider involving access to PHI. The crux of the issue revolves around a security breach that MedEvolve reported to the OCR in 2018.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 20, 2018

Understanding Telehealth Billing. Telehealth billing and reimbursement, much like all medical billing, is a confusing topic. 2018, June 16). 2018, April 03). MD, MBBS, (2018, April). 2018, August 01). Constantly changing state regulations make it difficult to stay up to date on new policies.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Examples can include a medical billing company, a company that manages a health care provider’s electronic health record system, or a law firm providing legal services to a health care provider involving access to PHI. The crux of the issue revolves around a security breach that MedEvolve reported to the OCR in 2018.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

Examples can include a medical billing company, a company that manages a health care provider’s electronic health record system, or a law firm providing legal services to a health care provider involving access to PHI. The crux of the issue revolves around a security breach that MedEvolve reported to the OCR in 2018.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 29, 2019

Amazon came back for another go in June 2018 when it paid close to $1bn for online pharmacy PillPack, which has licences to supply prescription drugs across the US. In January 2018, it formed a not-for-profit joint venturewith banking giant JPMorgan Chase and multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

In August 2018, I launched the Fixing Healthcare podcast. As prices climb ever-higher, at least half of Americans can’t afford to pay their out-of-pocket medical bills, which remain the leading cause of U.S. [link] Albert Einstein determined that time is relative. bankruptcy.

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Mental health Medicare Medical Billing Telemedicine 41

TheraNest

AUGUST 20, 2018

Understanding Telehealth Billing. Telehealth billing and reimbursement, much like all medical billing, is a confusing topic. 2018, June 16). 2018, April 03). MD, MBBS, (2018, April). 2018, August 01). Constantly changing state regulations make it difficult to stay up to date on new policies.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Most American families with children at home are concerned about paying bills on a monthly basis. One in two people have had at least one personal “economic crisis” in the past year, we learn in the American Family Survey 2018 , released last week from Deseret News and The Brookings Institution. The fact that half of U.S.

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Medical Billing 189

HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

His practices are in and near McAllen, Texas, the subject of a 2009 article by Atul Gawande in which Gawande noted that the tiny, poor town had the highest medical costs in the US other than Miami, which Texas locals attributed to everything from malpractice costs to overuse to fraud. Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 5/14/18. Get Involved.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare | 2018” list, which highlights hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies that promote diversity within the workforce, employee engagement and professional growth. 17 on its list of Best Workplaces in Health Care. 41 overall.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I was very fortunate to have attended the Society for Participatory Medicine’s (SPM) Second Annual Conference , in partnership with the Connected Health Alliance Conference, at Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center on October 17, 2018. The theme of the conference Democratizing Healthcare! My specialty is “ women and their families ”.

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Medical Billing Patient Experience Connected Health Nursing 69

Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

What could $28,166 buy you in 2018? Welcome to this year’s edition of the Milliman Medical Index (MMI), one of the most important forecasts of the year in the world of the Health Populi blog and THINK-Health universe. home healthcare, ambulance services, durable medical equipment). was $59,214 in February 2018.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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Primary Care Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy 177

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

Pew also calculated that median weekly earnings increased from $232 in the beginning of 1979 to $879 in 2018. More women know a family member who has avoided care due to cost, and more faced paying a medical bill that was higher than expected. Purchasing power over time is shown in the second chart.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

.” Perhaps this is why healthcare has become a top voting issue for the 2018 mid-term elections that will be held on November 6 one week from today. adults in August 2018. As we approach November 6, American voters in 2018 appear to be very health-cost-pragmatic. The post Healthcare Costs Stress Out U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

It’s a fairly even split between voting first on gun policy, jobs, or healthcare for the 2018 mid-term elections, ac. cording to the May 2018 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The 2018 mid-term elections in America will be strongly focused on healthcare and health costs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. Healthcare costs are part of a family’s budget in 2018, and that is a sure thing for 2019 as well. That’s the top lighter green line in the first chart. That’s answered in the third chart.

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