Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. With high health spending and lower life expectancy dollar for dollar, financial and health in-security will surely be voters’ priorities in 2020.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As of 2022, three in four consumers were offered online access to their medical records by a health care provider or health insurance plan, and well over one-half accessed their medical record or portal — growing by 50% over the two years, 2020 to 2022 (from 38% to 57%).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

All of those daily life-flows are blurring, accelerated by the pandemic and trends already in play and place by early 2020. As patients continue to morph into health consumers and medical bill payers, they will seek value-based care based on their own values, customers, preferences, and beliefs.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2020

Millions of mainstream, Main Street Americans entered 2020 feeling income inequality and financial insecurity in the U.S. For this report, PwC polled 1,683 full-time employed adults between 18 and 75 years of age in January 2020. For this report, PwC polled 1,683 full-time employed adults between 18 and 75 years of age in January 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. Fast-forward to 2020, a few months into the pandemic in the U.S.: MGMA found physician productivity fell 45% in April versus the beginning of 2020, not rebounding much by July.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For inspiration and context, I’ll kick off with Roz Chast’s latest New Yorker cartoon from the February 3rd 2020 issue — Strangers in the Night, taking place in a Duane Reade pharmacy. Roz really channels the scene in front of the pharmacy counter, from Q-tips to vitamins and tea.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. most recently in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have previously written here in Health Populi about the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the U.S.,

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Major healthcare priorities on drug pricing and ending surprise medical billing appear likely to be punted into 2020.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2019

As such, healthcare will likely continue to be a major focus in national elections, including the 2020 presidential election. Foremost among these are healthcare costs, which have been a consistent concern over time but currently stand above all other concerns.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 23, 2020

2020 has come up with some unprecedented and unpredictable host […]. The article Top 9 Challenges For Physician Billing Services Are Expected To Face In 2020 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

approaches the 2020 Presidential election. 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. The Physicians Foundation surveyed 2,001 U.S.

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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. politics both at the Federal and State levels. Expect health care costs to rank a top issue driving U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

health care spending will grow to 20% of the national economy by 2028, forecasted in projections pre-published in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs, National Health Expenditure (NHE) Projections. trillion in 2020. 2019-28: Expected Rebound in Prices Drives Rising Spending Growth. NHE will grow 5.4% This year, NHE will be $3.8

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In fact, medical bill angst in America isn’t just a December holidays thing: they’re a year-round source of anxiety, Aflac found. And those families impacted by COVID-19 were twice as likely to have someone borrow money from a friend or family member or postpone taking a family member to see a medical professional.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. To that point, consider the March 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll which learned that over one in three people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S. also say that income inequality and inadequate social services significantly contribute to high medical spending for every health citizen in the nation. This year’s poll was conducted in September 2019 and included input from 2,001 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

In 2015, high-deductible health plans were the choice for less than 40% of the population; by 2020, that number was above 50%. In a medical emergency, patients would be forced to cover massive medical bills out of pocket. As a result, 1 in 10 Americans owe some form of medical debt , with millions owing more than $10,000.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

If you’re attending #AHIP2024, pls join us at 11 am in the Musigny Room in the Wynn convention space — it’s sure to be a great conversation… I’ve covered the MMI updates every year for many years here on Health Populi.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

Today, 7th May 2020, the U.S. adults the week of 27 April 2020. Consumers are concerned about their ability-to-pay for all kinds of bills, shown in the bar chart. Consumers are concerned about their ability-to-pay for all kinds of bills, shown in the bar chart. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that about 3.17

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Collection rates for the bad debt fell from 76% in 2020 to 55% in just the one year from 2020 to 2021, a drop of nearly one-third. So, patients-as-payers and health consumers told AKASA, which is in the business of revenue cycle management, that quality and choice were worth a premium or enhanced charge on their medical bill.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On February 12, 2020, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S. Some of that credit card debt no doubt has medical bills associated with it. Furthermore, JPMorgan Chase has analyzed over 1 million accounts and found people using their tax refunds to pay for past medical spending.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One contributor to lackluster return-to-healthcare volumes is patients’ forgoing care due to cost — which Trilliant Health points out has overtaken COVID-19 concerns as the key driver for avoiding medical care services. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

are now delaying care is due to cost , not concerns about exposure to COVID-19 which created the phenomenon of “medical distancing” between 2020 and 2022, resulting in some patients avoiding preventive screenings and necessary care in face-to-face medical settings. “If The top reason people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

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. And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here.

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Mend

JULY 19, 2022

According to the same statistics, approximately one in five American households has “bad medical debt.” These numbers are concerning, as they indicate that many Americans are struggling to keep up with their medical bills. How Many Healthcare Organizations Still Rely on Paper Bills.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

consumers rate medical billing as challenging to understand , according to a recent survey from HealthLock. VA Palo Alto Health Care System tapped Verizon Business , a partner since 2020, for its full spectrum private 5G network. Miami-based UniVida Medical Centers transitioned to eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

According to an AdvancedMD survey of providers, 84% of patients are reporting stress levels that are higher today than they were in 2020. Partnerships Fintech company Cedar is working with Google Cloud to build AI-powered tools to hep patients understand medical bills.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Professor Yu Chuan (Jack) Li, the founder and current president at the International Medical Informatics Association, spent ten years before AESOP working on big data approaches to reduce medication errors. During the pandemic in 2020, Prof.

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TheraNest

JANUARY 28, 2021

Providers need to pay special attention to behavioral health insurance billing in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic swept our nation at the beginning of 2020. For providers introducing BH services, special attention must be paid to behavioral health insurance billing. . The Complexities of Mental/Behavioral Health Billing: .

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ACA Times

MARCH 24, 2015

The HHS review of the economic impact of Medicaid expansion looked at the program’s effect in the 28 states and the District of Columbia that took advantage of the federal government’s 100% of the cost of expanding Medicaid through 2016, decreasing to 90% by 2020. billion from 2014 to 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As nearly 1 in 10 adults carries significant medical debt in light of rising healthcare costs, this expansion enables the company to directly improve the financial well-being of millions of U.S. billion merger in 2020. With medical debt being the leading cause of bankruptcies in the U.S.,

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

While the survey didn’t ask people why they were putting off care, there is ample evidence that medical bills can be a powerful deterrent. “We While most of those individuals expected to receive care within the next three months, about a third said they planned to wait longer or not seek it at all.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 15, 2023

According to the National Health Interview Survey , approximately 30 million Americans were without health insurance in the first half of 2020, and around 43% of adults aged 19 to 64 had inadequate coverage as of mid-2022. To be eligible for Medicaid , individuals must meet certain income and asset criteria, which vary by state.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

adults 18 and over between May 7 and 11th 2020 by The Harris Poll, found that: 73% of Americans said the COVID-19 pandemic reduced their income. entered a recession in February 2020. This last graphic is the cover of The Economist dated 9th May 2020 , which featured an in-depth discussion of “the markets versus the real economy.”

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