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The Healthcare Financial Experience is a Stressful One: the Convergence of our Medical, Retail, and Financial Lives

Health Populi

The bottom-line, literally: four in ten consumers would not pay a medical bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience. Each person interviewed was responsible for health care decisions and paying the bill at least once int he past twelve months. Cedar polled 1,239 U.S.

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

Health Populi

When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. The film, by the way, garnered six nominations and won two].

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

You can read more at this link to my blog post discussing the company’s program to award washers to schools that help keep kids engaged in attending and engaging in learning. Stay tuned to my daily Health Populi blog postings and LinkedIn messages for #CES2025 updates between 5 and 10 January 2025.

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Patient Digital Engagement Index: athenahealth research team share insights from 50 Million US patients

Lloyd Price

The PDEI is a valuable tool for healthcare providers because it can help them understand how their patients are using digital tools. This information can be used to improve the patient experience and make it easier for patients to access care. Subscribe Today! Subscribe Today!

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A Portrait of the Health Consumer as Confused, Cost-Challenged, and Out of Control

Health Populi

Data illustrating that “paradox” is shown in the second chart: while 78% percent of patients told Maestro Health their health care experience is positive, 69% feel they lack control over their patient journey. patients had received a medical bill that was higher than they anticipated it would be.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. health care financing.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When PatientsLikeMe was acquired by UnitedHealthcare earlier this year, my friends-in-health-tech Susannah Fox, Lisa Suennen and I wrote a response to the acquisition and situation on each of our blogs, and on Medium. Was this due to the growing experience and reporting of surprise medical bills?

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