Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The company invested $67 million in affordable housing in 2019, which built 2,200 homes in 24 cities in six states. CVS/health is growing its reach into the social determinants of health through its Destination: Health program. Think past the pharmacy and the company’s new Health Hub concept; think CVS/housing.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019. The post was titled, “A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty — the Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions.” The media coverage of hospitals suing patients for late payments?

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers. And that will enhance patient/consumer health experience and loyalty. How can I banish bags from my eyes?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. In particular, 21% of consumers with medical debt say the primary source of that debt was due to the bills from doctor visits. A Debt.com survey out this weeks concludes that i nflation is making us sick, physically and financially — with 67% of U.S.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here.

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This has been more acute among younger workers 18 to 34, 64% of whom struggled to prioritize mental health, but nearly one-half of workers 35 to 54 also had difficulty prioritizing mental health, as well.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2019

As patients have taken on more financial responsibility for first-dollar costs in high-deductible health plans and medical bills, hospitals and health care providers face growing fiscal pressures for late payments and bad debt. Percolating in my mind are insights delivered by Nancy Giordano of Play Big Inc.

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