Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!!

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

pharmacists rank among the top-most-trusted professions for honest and ethics in the annual Gallup poll ( more on that here in Health Populi). In May 2021, Kroger launched a $5 million #CommunityImmunity campaign to incentivize people to get vaccinations among both their employee base and the communities the grocer serves. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

KFF wonders about the continued availability of coverage for furloughed workers, laid-off workers electing COBRA health insurance continuation, and changes that could be made to employee benefit programs for mental and financial wellness — two toxic side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

In 2021, all economies are expected to recover at some level, the brighter news in the third column in the last chart. “Flattening the spread of COVID-19 using lockdowns allows health systems to cope with the disease, which then permits a resumption of economic activity. .” will decline by -6.1%.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy?

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

And with patients’ collective exposure to and experience with virtual care in 2020, demand for these services is persisting in and beyond 2021. As TT notes, the rise in home-based care is a déjà vu back to health care delivered in the 19th and early 20th century before the hospital-industrial complex as we know it existed.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The first chart illustrates data on the impact of COVID-19 on behavioral health across different population groups. could have a behavioral health need in 2021. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Overall, 1 in 3 people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. In the U.S., Other people of color were much more likely to be at-risk for death due to COVID-19 than White Americans, except for Asian people who were on-par for death due to C19 with White people, the chart shows.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S., The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. In the report’s section on “Retirement Savings, Planning, and Preparation,” we learn that the median household retirement savings across all workers was $54.000 as of late 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

Health care price transparency is not only in the movies… it’s real, legislated in the law as of January 1 2021 , and now Hollywood is on the case in real life…not just in the movies. You can follow #PowerToThePatients on Instagram and @PowertoPatnts on Twitter. Here’s the ad you can watch for yourself.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Surescripts also reported a 24% increase in the number of prescribers enrolled in May 2022 compared to May 2021.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

A critical insight that’s quite clear from this chart from the report is that deaths from preventable and treatable causes substantially rose especially in certain states between 2019 and 2021 in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS ANAO conducted the audit to provide "assurance" over the rapid implementation of health policy changes and the transition from emergency to permanent settings. "Rapid implementation of policy changes can increase risks to [the] effective and efficient delivery of public services," it explained.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With new rules emanating from the White House this month focusing on health care price transparency, health care costs are in the spotlight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 9, 2018

Every state faces steep individual marketplace premium increases in 2019 and beyond, due at least in part to ongoing uncertainty about health policy on the federal level. Covered California estimates that 17 states face "catastrophic" increases of up to 90% or more between 2019 and 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

in 2021, 58% of debts in collections were for a medical bill, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (almost 4x as many debts as telecomm bills, #2 in the list of most prevalent forms of debt in the U.S.). Here’s an additional detail showing the mainstream, Main Street nature of medical debt in the U.S.:

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2022

[Edelman usually releases a specific health industry deck some weeks after the initial Trust Barometer publication, which I will cover as soon as the data are available], Overall, peoples’ trust across the world in NGOs, business, government, and media, has stayed relatively flat over 2021 levels, the bar chart illustrates at the top-line.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Joseph Dieleman of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a group that has been long-tracking the coronavirus since its emergence. The team analyzed data from January 1 2020 to September 30 2021.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pharmacy is all these things, and increasingly digital-first, we learn in The Rx Report: A new day in retail pharmacy , a consumer survey from CVS Health. CVS Health, one of the two largest pharmacies operating in the U.S. in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This year Genentech followed up the 2020 exploration of patients’ perspectives, adding in the health care provider/physician view on health equity. This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S. Key findings in this year’s 2021 study were that: Inequities within the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

Figure 6 from the King’s Fund report arrays health spending per capita data points from the OECD’s 2021 national survey, finding the UK (the red dot on the graph) to the left of the red average line on the x-axis for per capita spending and just north of the average line of spending as a share of GDP on the y-axis.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

Six years since that first study, Case and Deaton focus in on education in this 2021 article: specifically, the relationship between a person in the U.S. Civic Science’s poll conducted in early March 2021 found striking differences across U.S. have a 4-year BA degree and that individual’s life expectancy. Sound familiar?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In 2021, Wellpath leveraged TSIM, the Telehealth Service Implementation Model that was developed at the Medical University of South Carolina's Center for Telehealth, an HRSA-designated National Telehealth Center of Excellence. With nearly 15,000 clinicians and professionals in 34 states across the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This Medscape study into physicians’ thoughts and feelings complements other research the organization has conducted with doctors earlier this year: specifically, the Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2022 , which I covered in Health Populi here in January 2022.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It is important to note that some of these structural barriers are parallel to some peoples’ lack of access to health insurance. The researchers examined data for 242,727 adults in the 50 states and Washington, DC, quantifying access to voting and various demographic characteristics — including the odds of being uninsured.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

Stress plays a big role in this year’s study, after consumers have dealt with the coronavirus public health crisis, followed in Year 3 by historic inflation (especially for food) exacerbated by the Ukraine conflict and supply chain challenges.

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