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.

Digital Health 177

Digital Health Medical Billing Primary Care Interoperability 177

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

By age group, people 30 t0 49 years of age were more likely to have fallen into medical debt: think Sandwich-generation adults with children and aging parents, seriously financially stretched and stressed. Here’s an additional detail showing the mainstream, Main Street nature of medical debt in the U.S.:

Medical Billing 312

Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 312

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!!

Health Policy 254

Health Policy Medicare Pharmaceuticals Life Science 254

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. No one should lose their livelihood, their home, their life because they can’t afford or understand the prices of their medical treatment. You can follow #PowerToThePatients on Instagram and @PowertoPatnts on Twitter.

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Medical Billing Patient Experience Public Health Health Policy 358

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.

Mental health 296

Mental health Medical Billing Health Policy 296

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The intention of this mandate is to enable patients-as-consumers to more readily shop for health care services that are “shoppable.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The last chart organizes ACSI’s customer satisfaction benchmarks by industry in 2019.

Primary Care 177

Primary Care Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy 177

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Now that hygiene protocols are well-established in health care providers’ settings, at least two other major consumer barriers to seeking care must be addressed: cost and access. As some people had trouble covering at least one of these expense line items, a total of 37% of U.S.

Mental health 292

Mental health Public Health Medical Billing Telehealth 292