Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S. health care system.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

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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. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary , the first use of the phrase “health insurance” occurred in 1901. Consulting Noah Webster….and and ChatGPT.

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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). This week, too, The Wall Street Journal analyzed the impact of insurer-owned retail clinics’ potential threat to hospitals.

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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. Only 17% of that amount was collected falling between $7,501 and $10,000, Crowe calculated.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. One in three Americans overall are concerned they won’t be able to pay for health care services or prescription drugs: that includes 35% of people who are insured, and 63% of those who do not have insurance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Here’s the latest arithmetic on American workers’ financial trade-off of wages for health care insurance coverage: in the ten years since 2009, family premiums have risen 54% and workers’ contribution to health care spending grew 71%. Larger companies are more likely to offer health insurance to workers than smaller companies.

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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

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

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

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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Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should make establishing payment codes for products involving women’s heart disease a priority to prompt private insurers to cover new service lines.” Insurers will be forced to raise rates to cover this new charge. What would I foresee as happening if CMS took action?

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ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

It is the insurance or payers’ way of controlling costs by approving or denying certain medications, procedures, or devices that may not usually be covered or is on a higher tier on the formulary. They ensure that patients are appropriately utilizing the healthcare services available by their insurance.

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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. Now consider a vision/optical insurance plan entering the retailing side of the business.

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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. These are the prices that George Washington Hospital charges for health care, but they are not the prices that insurers pay for health care.

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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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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It is the insurance or payers’ way of controlling costs by approving or denying certain medications, procedures, or devices that may not usually be covered or is on a higher tier on the formulary. They ensure that patients are appropriately utilizing the healthcare services available by their insurance.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2018

Most Americans are healthcare cost-conscious, concerned about various kinds of healthcare expenses, data from McKinsey’s research has found presented in Healthcare consumerism 2018: An update on the journey. The first chart shows consumers’ concerns about health care expenses over time, comparing perceptions in 2009 and 2017.

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Milwaukee Career College

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The healthcare industry needs trained professionals who can complete a variety of important tasks such as updating medical records, recording vital signs and symptoms, or dealing with health insurance policies. Bureau of Labor Statistics , the average pay for a medical assistant in 2018 was $33,610 per year. According to the U.S.

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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. Yet it’s older people who are more at-risk for SD0H challenges. As health care delivery in the U.S.

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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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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Minority Nurse

MARCH 22, 2023

I wanted to uncover the world of medicine and was given the great opportunity to travel as a Locum Tenens Nurse Practitioner from 2016 to 2018. Even if a patient has health insurance, they may still have financial concerns, making it difficult to afford medications and treatments. The leader I am today is the ultimate assignment.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

billion OOP for prescription drugs: OOP costs include copayments, coinsurance, payments during the deductible phases of health insurance, or retail payments for drugs due to the lack of prescription drug insurance coverage. In 2017, patients spent $57.8 The second chart illustrates OOP spending for the 5.5 billion in OOP costs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

Not that in 2018, 75% of employers offered these programs. For employer insights, HRI’s research included interviews with health industry executives representing 95 million insured employees and dependents, along with PwC’s 2019 Health and Well-being Touchstone Survey of 550 employers.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Most American families with children at home are concerned about paying bills on a monthly basis. One in two people have had at least one personal “economic crisis” in the past year, we learn in the American Family Survey 2018 , released last week from Deseret News and The Brookings Institution. The fact that half of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

Patients are facing health care costs that may result in multi-thousand dollar bills at discharge (or death) that will decimate households’ financial health, particularly among people who don’t have health insurance coverage, covered by skinny or under-benefited plans, and/or lack banked savings for medical spending.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

If you are alarmed by the incessant stories about cybersecurity breaches, particularly those that have affected insurance companies, you may see this deal as a significant new danger for patients and their data. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. Give people’s data to a big insurer? How could you?”.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

What could $28,166 buy you in 2018? The MMI represents what a typical employer-sponsored preferred provider organization (PPO) plan covering a family of four will cost in 2018. families could not afford to pay $1,000 for an emergency medical bill in one study; in another, that inability to pay is as low as a $400 emergency to cover.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

employers offered health insurance to workers in 2017, EBRI reports in its latest Issue Brief. companies offered health insurance to their employees, up by 1.6 of employers offered health insurance, shown in the first bar chart (Figure 1 from the EBRI report). of those companies offered health insurance in 2016, 23.5%

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a net neutrality bill this weekend. Health Populi’s Hot Points: An update to the census-tract level broadband estimates will be published in December 2018, and this will give us updated pictures into neighborhood-specific connectivity.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

Pew also calculated that median weekly earnings increased from $232 in the beginning of 1979 to $879 in 2018. The fact that wages have stayed flat for over a decade have effectively compelled employers, who wanted to provide for workers’ health insurance benefits, to stem wage growth in favor of sponsoring health insurance benefits.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The World Health Organization called for “prescribing” clean air for the world’s children, 90% of whom were breathing toxic air in 2018. There are new ICD-10 Z codes for social determinants that will enable billing and reimbursement for social care tied to diagnoses. health care delivery.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

single-payer health insurance is driven by the fact that some 29 million people under 65 were uninsured in an average month in 2018, CBO noted in a previous report. Private insurance, which can be allowed, generally plays a small supplementary role. The support for U.S. The spending shows up in the government entity’s budget.

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