The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

2023, OCR reported a 239% increase in hacking-related data breaches between January 1, 2018, and September 30, 2023, and a 278% increase in ransomware attacks over the same period. PA Business Associate 2,675,934 Hacking/IT Incident 45 2018 AccuDoc Solutions, Inc. In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches.

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DrChrono

JULY 27, 2021

Medical billing is one of the most complicated, time-consuming parts of running a practice. A 2018 study published in JAMA found that billing and insurance-related activities can take anywhere from 13 minutes for a primary care visit to 100 minutes for an inpatient surgical procedure.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There’s no mistaking that more Supercenters are located in areas with greater levels of people without insurance based on data from 2019 (Walmart store location count) and 2018 (uninsured rates).

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

This is what rationing health care looks like in America: one in two people in families dealing with a chronic health condition have difficulty affording paying medial bills before meeting a deductible, unexpected medical bills, co-payments for prescription drugs, co-payments for physician visits, and/or their monthly health insurance premium.

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DrChrono

JULY 9, 2018

July 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Collectly, a fellow Y Combinator company that streamlines the billing and collection process for healthcare companies. SUNNYVALE, Calif.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. Healthcare costs are part of a family’s budget in 2018, and that is a sure thing for 2019 as well. That’s the top lighter green line in the first chart. That’s answered in the third chart.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), less formally known as the Stimulus Bill. GDP, in 2018. out of the Great Recession.

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DrChrono

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In our article with Health IT Outcomes, COO and Co-Founder Daniel Kivatinos does a deep dive on how these two technologies will be extremely useful at every point of the healthcare experience for patients: at home, in the waiting room, during the encounter, and even after for billing and follow up.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

People dealing with chronic conditions are keener to share personally-generated data than people that don’t have a chronic disease, Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of U.S> Specifically, 50% of health consumers search to see their providers are in-network, to avoid surprise medical bills. > Health Care Consumers learned.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Founders include Dr. Bill Frist, former Republican U.S. ” Those devastating health care costs underpin the form of universal healthcare Americans have at the start of 2018. Senator from Tennessee, Dave Durenberger, former Republican U.S. That is, U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

The company’s 2018 State of Consumerism in Healthcare report is out, subtitled, “Activity in Search of Strategy.” Health care costs are a key issue for patients and healthcare consumers in 2018, for both personal households and as a mid-term election hot-button.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). The key points of the report are that: Health care costs are growing at a slower pace, although up-ticked from last year’s trend: in 2018-19 costs grew 3.8%, and last year 2017-18 the growth rate was 2.9%. will cost $28,386, a 3.6%

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

trillion to national healthcare spending in 2018. Healthcare payors who foot the bill will be very interested to know about this development. This week, Kaiser Family Foundation published its 2018 study into employer-sponsored benefits, finding that the average cost is about $20,000 this year. trillion in 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

One-third of Americans are following a specific eating pattern, including intermittent fasting, paleo gluten-free, low-carb, Mediterranean diet, and Whole 30, among dozens of other food-styles in vogue in 2018. IFIC surveyed 1,009 American online adults ages 18 to 80 in March 2018.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S. Overall, 57% of employers offer health benefits — equal to offer levels in 2018 and similar to the 2009 level of 59%.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

98% of Americans rank paying their medical bills is an important pain point in their patient journey, according to Embracing consumerism: Driving customer engagement in the healthcare financial journey , from Experian Health. Healthcare is a Come Together moment and opportunity in America for the 2018 mid-term elections.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2019

As a short-term salve, check out this special digital section that staff from the New York Times published online in November 2018. It’s a delightful, insightful, often moving curation of insights from folks working at the Times who shared their own concepts and memories on self-care. Self-care@retail is everywhere.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2019

Medical costs have, in fact, ranked at the top of this list for three years in a row, with a five percentage point rise between 2018 and 2019. This is worrisome because Fidelity Investments’ latest calculations in April 2019 gauged that people retiring in 2018 at 65 will need $285,000 to cover medical costs in retirement.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Chairman Powell spoke about health care costs with Yahoo Finance in 2018: “It’s no secret: It’s been true for a long time that with our uniquely expensive healthcare delivery system and the aging of our population, we’ve been on an unsustainable fiscal path for a long time.” ” (H/T Business Insider ).

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2018

With the USDA picking a new electronic payment vendor, First Data, Novo Dia announced its decision to withdraw from the program as of July 31, 2018. Suffice it to say this transition will now keep farmer’s market foodstuffs out of the hands of some SNAP beneficiaries from 1st August through the rest of the 2018 growing season.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

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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. Top of mind for Americans in 2019 is the price of prescription drugs, according to 62% of people.

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Hospital Follow-Up Billing Medication 54

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

Sandhills used a vendor (Netgain Technologies) for electronic storage of its scheduling, billing, and reporting systems. Ford received medical services at Sandhills in 2018 but ceased being a patient of Sandhills before the November ransomware attack.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season. Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. Julie discussed the Cleveland Clinic’s project on designing a better medical bill, detailing the organization’s design thinking on the inpatient journey and commitment to patient-centered care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture. To mitigate SDoH risks for older Americans, Medicare has begun to pay for services that promote coordinated care.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Doctors used to take notes mostly in shorthand, leaving the abstraction of these notes for coding and billing purposes to be done by some poor sap in the basement of the hospital. The introduction of electronic medical records made this a major pain point. But there is definitely more to come.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

adults 18 and over in September 2018 in English and Spanish. As the National Center for Health Statistics has reported , people with HDHPs are far more likely than those with traditional health plans to forgo or delay medical care or to be in a household that is having difficulty paying medical bills.”

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Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Sanacora & Katz, 2018 ) supports its effectiveness for severe depression in patients where other treatments have fallen short.Another promising new medication is a pill called Auvelity that combines dextromethorphan with bupropion. Recent research (e.g.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. is getting fuzzier by the day.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Pre-existing conditions are a big deal to Americans these days: among registered voters, ensuring that health plans cover pre-existing conditions is the most important health care issue on Americans’ minds, the June 2018 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll found.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The crux of the guilty plea was that the defendant billed Idaho Medicaid for services not provided or for services that were knowingly inflated in claims to Idaho Medicaid. But, critical to the PPP FCA theory, the time period that the defendant admitted to committing this crime was 2018 to 2021, which overlaps with the PPP applications.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

AI and Machine Learning in medical billing: Streamlining processes In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to continue its upward trajectory in the healthcare sector. Billing processes should align with these value-based models to ensure fair compensation for high-quality care.

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Milwaukee Career College

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Bureau of Labor Statistics , the average pay for a medical assistant in 2018 was $33,610 per year. You will receive comprehensive training to perform certain clinical tasks, front office administrative duties and wide-ranging medical coding and medical billing duties. 1 How much does a medical assistant get paid? According to the U.S.

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