Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Employment gains have been broad based across all racial and ethnic groups and levels of education. However, it remains lower than in most other advanced economies, and there are troubling labor market disparities across racial and ethnic groups and across regions of the country. The nation faces important longer-run challenges.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction. A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

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. Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

We’ll see dozens of vendors with AI-baked into offerings that speak to population health, especially as value-based care continues to be demanded by certain payers and health plan benefit designs. Reduce per capita costs. With any design, if you build it and people don’t come, it’s a fail (the Field-of-Dreams effect).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Klepper of Worksite Health Advisors , longtime consigliere to self-insured employers, unions, and value-oriented providers of medical services, explained the growth in value-based care he expects to see in the coming months: “Today’s descendants of the disruptor Managed Care companies of the 1980’s are value-focused and high performing….that

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 14, 2023

[link] More than two years after Congress acted to shield patients from surprise medical bills , lawmakers are turning to another source of unexpected medical costs: the fees that hospitals tack on for services provided in clinics they own.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This number is not statistically representative of a national sample across all age groups and other demo’s, but we can still point to its direction and veracity in the context of a stressed-out workforce — mentally, financially, and socio-politically.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

That real-people financial reality is discussed in a “Fact Tank” essay from the Pew Research Group, For most US workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. This has translated in benefit costs — particularly, health benefits — rising more quickly than peoples’ paychecks have kept pace.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A backlash against the non-transparent sharing of healthcare data and arguable profiteering is creating anger among patients and other groups. Increased consolidation will result in higher healthcare prices as larger sized institutions use their size to their advantage. Simultaneously, data breaches continue to be reported on a daily basis.

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. Across income groups among likely U.S. Jeanne founded ClearHealthCosts nearly ten years ago, having worked as a journalist with the New York Times and other media.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

.” Majorities of people agree with this statement — even the lowest percentage of 60% of people who would favor replacing the ACA with state-run health plans. For this group, it’s more local control and influence that’s valued versus a national assurance of health care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Third and fourth on voters’ minds are protecting patients from surprise medical bills and better addressing drug addiction. Lowering Rx prices is the top health policy issue for Republicans tied with addressing the drug epidemic.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The most important factor that underpins peoples’ engaging with their health and health care organizations is trust…and distrust in America is up, the Pew Research Group told us earlier this year in their report on Trust and Distrust in America. Health Politics, Policy and the President. mm over five years).

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

This poll from RealClear Politics , conducted in late April/early May 2019, makes my point that the patient is the consumer and, facing deductibles and more financial exposure to footing the medical bill, the payor. population, engaged in health care decisions but more cost-conscious and less satisfied.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In today’s Health Populi blog, I’m digging into Access Denied: patients speak out on insurance barriers and the need for policy change , a study conducted by Ipsos on behalf of PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — the pharma industry’s advocacy organization (i.e.,

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