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Most Consumers Are Health and Wellness Consumers, Even in Hard Financial Times, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As patients continue to morph into health consumers and medical bill payers, they will seek value-based care based on their own values, customers, preferences, and beliefs.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

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]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. .”

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3 in 4 U.S. Patients Say the Healthcare System is Broken — But Technology Can Help

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

healthcare system is broken and there is a strong sense of distrust,” Lavidge asserts right at the top of the study’s press release. The Lavidge consumer study bolsters this mandate, further inspiring us to build trust in one another, with science, and with our health care providers. The erosion in trust among U.S.

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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 Cleveland Clinic study did uncover some good news: some U.S.

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Medical Debt, Aflac on Eroding Health Benefits, the CBO’s Uninsured Forecast & Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices: A Health Consumer Financial Update

Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. Some recent signposts in research update our understanding of the patient-as-payer, such as the latest Aflac WorkForces Report 2023-24 on benefits and financial wellness in this 13th annual research study.

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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.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Health care is undergoing similar digital and omnichannel transformation following other industries.

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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.

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Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

You may not know that the company has a significant footprint in health care and financial technology. What do people want from digital transformation for their health care experiences? Health Populi’s Hot Points : As Experian puts the situation and experience-gap, “the cost conversation continues.”

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TransUnion Reveals the Home Economics and Social Determinants of COVID-19

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

Consumers are concerned about their ability-to-pay for all kinds of bills, shown in the bar chart. Most concerning are credit cards, utilities, auto loans, insurance, and mobile phone bills, with mortgage and rent and medical bills (which are worrisome for 1 in 4 U.S.

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Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

That’s the title of a new report that captures the results of a survey conducted in January 2024 among 1,516 employed Americans who received employer-sponsored health insurance. I live and breathe and work with patient and consumer health financial data every working day.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices. Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019.

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Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. With the end of the public health emergency, DEA is proposing a rollback on flexibility for remote prescribing.

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1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Here are the many reasons a woman living in America has for skipping or delaying health care, Deloitte illustrated in Figure 3 from the report. is costs — in this study, that out-of-pocket costs were seen as too high for the 21% of women skipping care, compared with 16% of men who did so.

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Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD

Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

Deborah Brown, who is Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer for Health in the New York City Office of the Deputy Mayor, discussed her challenging role in helping drive design thinking in public health for all New Yorkers – especially the most vulnerable citizens.

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The Great Resignation in Healthcare & What To Do About It

Mend

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A new study by the American Medical Association (AMA) shows that one in 5 physicians and 2 in 5 nurses intend to leave their current practice within two years. The same study shows that approximately 1 in 3 physicians, APPs, and nurses intend to reduce their work hours. Burnout According to the AMA. A Provider’s Perspective.

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What is the Hybrid Healthcare System & How Does It Work?

Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The relaxation of state and federal regulations during the public health emergency also played a role in allowing providers to adopt these virtual practices more easily. Mend starts by integrating with your organization’s medical billing software. As a result, the adoption of telehealth skyrocketed.

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports. healthcare system.

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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

Furthermore, on the data front, there’s a sense of “we don’t know what we don’t know” in that 34% of drug withdrawals did not have sufficient information on sex-specific adverse events to determine the possibility of further risks associated with gender.

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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.

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In the US COVID-19 Pandemic, A Tension Between the Fiscal and the Physical

Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

are concerned about their potential out-of-pocket costs which could run $1,300 or more, based on a Peterson Center/Kaiser Family Foundation study I discussed here in Health Populi. Bottom-line for that health consumer: two in three Americans could not afford to pay their deductible if hospitalized for treatment of coronavirus.

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

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With that realization, we must remind ourselves as we enter a new year under a second-term President Trump that health care spending for everyday people is bound up in overall household spending and the umbrella of “home economics.” And in the U.S.,

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Employees also have the option of taking up to a 48-month leave of absence in order to pursue a full-time course of study. Campbell County Health (Gillette, Wyo.). Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). SwedishAmerican is a division of UW Health offering care to residents of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

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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.

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Healthcare Costs Stress Out U.S. Voters One Week Ahead of 2018 Mid-Term Elections

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One-half of people age 18 to 64 have received a surprise medical bill they thought would be covered by insurance, and one-third say that the ability to pay for care they need is the most pressing issue in American healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The vast majority of the most seriously ill patients in the U.S.

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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.

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Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Ensure Healthcare for All

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

See the second chart, reported in a recent study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Being Seriously Ill in the U.S. . What happens to these patients’ financial health? This study surveyed about 1,500 people with serious illnesses or people who cared for those patients, polled in July and August 2018.

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Americans Worry About Medical Bankruptcy, With Prescription Drug Costs Also Playing Into Voters’ Concerns

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a poll conducted with West Health, Gallup found that more younger people are concerned about medical debt risks, along with more non-white adults, published in their study report, 50% in U.S. Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. The survey was fielded in July 2020 among 1,007 U.S. adults 18 and older.

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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. voters, whether earning under $50,000 or over $100,000, Americans feel financial pain due to COVID-19, based on a study from the Financial Times and Peterson Foundation.

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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.

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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.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The second poll we’ll consider is the survey from The Harvard Chan School of Public Health published in October 2019 (conducted in July-August 2019) teamed with the Commonwealth Fund and the New York Times. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship.

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Most Consumers Are Health and Wellness Consumers, Even in Hard Financial Times, Accenture Finds

Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

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3 in 4 U.S. Patients Say the Healthcare System is Broken — But Technology Can Help

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

Medical Debt, Aflac on Eroding Health Benefits, the CBO’s Uninsured Forecast & Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices: A Health Consumer Financial Update

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

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

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

Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

TransUnion Reveals the Home Economics and Social Determinants of COVID-19

Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD

The Great Resignation in Healthcare & What To Do About It

What is the Hybrid Healthcare System & How Does It Work?

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

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

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

In the US COVID-19 Pandemic, A Tension Between the Fiscal and the Physical

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

150 top places to work in healthcare

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

Healthcare Costs Stress Out U.S. Voters One Week Ahead of 2018 Mid-Term Elections

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

Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Ensure Healthcare for All

Americans Worry About Medical Bankruptcy, With Prescription Drug Costs Also Playing Into Voters’ Concerns

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

Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

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