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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The big gap in supply to patients vs. demand by health consumers is highlighted by what the arrow in the chart below points to: managing payments and paying bills. Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills.

Billing

Billing Medication Follow-Up Patient Experience

Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

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.

De-Escalation

De-Escalation Tests Hospital Admissions

Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). adults 18 and over in August 2018. Who’s responsible? Plus ça change.

Billing

Billing Medication Insurance Follow-Up

Physicians Don’t Talk Enough with Patients About Non-Medical Needs

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

But most doctors base their conversations with patients on purely medical options like lab test results and surgical procedures. The top issues doctors discuss with patients are physical health (74%), test results (56%), medications (52%), and exercise (51%), only one-third broach the subject of mental health.

Precepting

Precepting Medication Tests Billing

The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. One of them, the coronary artery calcium score (CAC) was reviewed in 2018 by the U.S.

Tests

Tests Diagnostics Follow-Up Insurance

Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

Hospital

Hospital Follow-Up Billing Medication

Do I Really Need That? Patients Wary of Conflicts of Interest in Healthcare

Scrubs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Providers are typically paid for each test and procedure they perform, which can lead to a conflict of interest, especially when patients have to foot the bill. New studies reveal just how widespread medically unnecessary care can be, forcing patients to pay for procedures and tests they may not need.

Tests

Tests Billing Insurance Medication

NEW CE: Coding Updates—Telehealth Services, Evaluation & Management, and Opioid Use Disorder

NHA Now

JULY 9, 2020

With an ever-evolving healthcare system, certified medical billing and coding professionals have to stay on top of changing codes, practices, and regulations. Staying current with annual coding updates is a best practice for ensuring correct documentation, coding, reporting, and billing.

Documentation

Documentation Continuing Education Billing Medical Assistant

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

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.

Collaboration

Collaboration Insurance Medication Billing

Self-Care Is Healthcare In Consumers’ Hands, Peaking on Google Trends

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2019

I ran this little test because I’m speaking on Monday 18 March at the annual meeting of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. As a short-term salve, check out this special digital section that staff from the New York Times published online in November 2018. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results.

Billing

Billing Tests Medication

Americans Growing Health Consumer Muscles and Knowledge: McKinsey

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. As part of this growing health-consumer ethos, people are open to digital healthcare solutions.

Long Term Care

Long Term Care Insurance Hospital Billing

Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD

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.

Follow-Up

Follow-Up Customer Service Patient Centered Care Medication

Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

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.

Unit Organization and Environment

Unit Organization and Environment Medication Billing Tests

How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

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.

Hospital

Hospital Insurance Billing Collaboration

Estimates of COVID-19 Medical Costs in the US: $20K for inpatient stay, $1300 OOP costs

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

In the midst of growing inpatient admissions and test results for COVID-19, Congress is working as I write this post to finalize a round of legislation to help Americans with the costs-of-living and (hopefully) health care in a national, mandated, clarifying way. Hospital costs could average over $20,000, the report calculated.

Discharges

Discharges Insurance Medication Admissions

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

In some ways the UHG/PLM deal is a bit of a Rorschach test for those intersecting with the health care field, be they providers, payers, researchers, or patients; one’s view of this deal is intrinsically intertwined with the pre-existing perceptions of the observer. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S.

Unit Organization and Environment

Unit Organization and Environment Insurance Follow-Up HIPAA

Hospitals Suffer Decline in Consumer Satisfaction

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.

Hospital

Hospital Patient Satisfaction Insurance Follow-Up

Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We know that a top issue driving American voters to the 2018 mid-term polls was health care, in at least two dimensions: direct costs to the voters (as patients and taxpayers); and, personal and collective concerns about losing coverage due to pre-existing conditions. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S.

Insurance

Insurance Hospital HIPAA Diagnostics

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Self-Care Is Healthcare In Consumers’ Hands, Peaking on Google Trends

Americans Growing Health Consumer Muscles and Knowledge: McKinsey

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Estimates of COVID-19 Medical Costs in the US: $20K for inpatient stay, $1300 OOP costs

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Hospitals Suffer Decline in Consumer Satisfaction

Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

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