Medical Billing, Mental health and Public Health

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

HIPAA

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Massachusetts governor signs law safeguarding telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. At the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Baker enacted an emergency order requiring insurers to cover telehealth in order to help ensure provider and patient safety.

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Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

On the medical spending front, Bankrate’s survey noted that 1 in 3 Americans did not seek healthcare in the past year due to costs. Without assurance that these medical bills would be paid, there are people in the U.S.

Mental health

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Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still Avoiding Medical Care

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

.” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. The first chart here shows that one in four U.S.

Mental health

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment.

Primary Care

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

Medical Billing

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Making Healthcare Accessible: Empowerment This Medicaid Awareness Month

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 15, 2023

Medicaid also covers certain groups of people automatically, such as those receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and some individuals who have high medical bills. The program also covers services such as dental and vision care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, and long-term care.

Public Health

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Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 29, 2019

Why Amazon is moving into health Few doubt new digital technologies have roles to play in the huge challenges healthcare systems are facing. The incentives of companies like Amazon are to increase market share, share prices and profits, which puts them at odds with the underlying goals of a public health system like the NHS.”

Health Data

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

Health Technology

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Stalled gains in longevity, with greater burdens of chronic disease and ill mental health, are growing risk factors throughout so many of the wealthiest nations on Earth. That’s the incredulity part of this scenario — that no longer can mainstream Americans believe that their country has “the best health care in the world.”.

Primary Care

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The Women’s Health Gap Is Especially Wide During Her Working Years – Learning from McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, and AARP in Women’s History Month

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2024

That invokes the village in a woman’s community of banks and educational institutions, retailers and business, faith institutions and town planners, and health care systems collaborating to bolster health for all.

Life Science

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Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As employees were feeling “stuck” in their jobs and careers in 2024, they have also been struggling with prioritizing mental health. The post Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. And in the U.S.,

Mental health

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Women’s Health Outcomes in the U.S.: Spending More, Getting (Way) Less – 4 Charts from The Commonwealth Fund

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2024

have lower life expectancy, greater risks of heart disease, and more likely to face medical bills and self-rationing due to costs, we learn in the latest look into Health Care for Women: How the U.S. having the lowest life expectancy of 80 years versus women in other high-income countries; Health status, with women in the U.S.

Medical Billing

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Christ Hospital Health Network, with over 3,500 employees, is ranked No. Hospital leadership recently refreshed the Employee Assistance Program, which looks to improve work-life balance for employees by addressing behavioral and mental health needs. Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). National Medical Billing Services (St.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

Mental health

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Guns, Jobs, or Health Care? In 2018, Voters Split as to Top Issue

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

Public Health

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Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Health Care Policies – From Medicare and Prescription Drugs to Gun Safety

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I’ll leave you with one outstanding exemplar-leader in the public health community walking the talk about solutions to this crisis: it’s Michael Dowling, head of Northwell Health, who believes gun safety is in his “lane” of health, health care, and community health.

Medicare

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Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

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. People are adopting a variety of coping mechanisms to manage the great lockdown at home, often resulting in health habits that are risks to overall well-being and resilience.

Medical Billing

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

health care micro-economy and how health costs will crowd out other household spending in 2024 Consumers’ financial health blurs (or sometimes bleeds) into their personae as patients: CivicScience has tracked a direct relationship between peoples’ perceptions of financial health and one’s overall well-being.

Mental health

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Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household budgets must make room for paying medical bills — with prescription drug costs also very important as a discussion topic for 2024 Presidential candidates, we learn from the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll published 1 December.

Mental health

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Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Health care pocketbook issues rank first and second place for Americans in these months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, according to research from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health published on 19th February 2020. There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table.

Medical Billing

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Americans Want More Health Care Issues Baked into the 2024 Elections – Gallup

Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We discussed how health care is a mainstream kitchen-table issue in the U.S., with affordability a driving force as well as health security — for Medicare and Social Security in aging — and growing stressors driving mental health demand and access challenges.

Medicare

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Connected Health Pulse

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

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Massachusetts governor signs law safeguarding telehealth coverage

Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still Avoiding Medical Care

From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Making Healthcare Accessible: Empowerment This Medicaid Awareness Month

Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

The Women’s Health Gap Is Especially Wide During Her Working Years – Learning from McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, and AARP in Women’s History Month

Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health

Women’s Health Outcomes in the U.S.: Spending More, Getting (Way) Less – 4 Charts from The Commonwealth Fund

150 top places to work in healthcare

How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Guns, Jobs, or Health Care? In 2018, Voters Split as to Top Issue

Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Health Care Policies – From Medicare and Prescription Drugs to Gun Safety

Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

Americans Want More Health Care Issues Baked into the 2024 Elections – Gallup

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