2020 Medical Billing Patient Experience 
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).
Health Populi
MAY 30, 2022
Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. The American Psychological Association study I cited in that post from 2020 found that financial stress was indeed contributing to Americans’ sense of anxiety and depression.
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Health Populi
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Commonwealth Fund’s report bolsters the central premise of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, that the patient-is-the-payor as we approach the new year of 2020. This new year is a U.S.
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.
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%).
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.
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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