Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One-third of Americans would opt into using a personal monitoring system 24/7 by an insurance company or health care provider in exchange for lower-cost insurance. 30% of people would consider buying health insurance from companies offering lower rates, including non-insurance firms like Amazon, Costco or Google.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 4, 2023

To learn more about the rate of medically unnecessary care, the group sorted through insurance claims from 1.3 According to the New York Times, Americans borrowed $88 billion to pay for healthcare in 2018 alone. Patients can use this information to make sure their provider and the test or procedure are covered by their insurance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

“Every company is a tech company,” Christopher Mimms asserted in the Wall Street Journal in December 2018. as a “health insurance company” evolving to its vision as technology-informed health care. Thus began the reinvention of Humana from V 1.0 ” That’s the context for Humana’s joining CTA.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

Health care features prominently in the nearly-300 slides curated by Mary Meeker in her always- informative report on Internet Trends 2018. Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins, released the report as usual at the Code Conference, held this year on 30 May 2018 in Silicon Valley. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus.

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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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Scrubs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Just this year alone, we’ve seen some of the largest and most alarming healthcare data breaches in history, including those related to the American Medical Collection Agency, insurer Dominion National, and Inmediata Health Group, just to name a few. The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019.

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Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

It’s no shock, then, to find that 59% of employees said they consistently carried balances on their credit cards in 2019, a huge jump from 49% who did so in 2018. Sixty percent of workers with health insurance were covered by a health plan with a deductible (a HDHP). in December 2018 to 6.2% Louis Federal Reserve.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

consumers rank supermarkets, fast food chains, retailers, and banks as their top performing industries for experience according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings. The post What Would Healthcare Feel Like If It Acted Like Supermarkets – the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, requires health insurance plans to cover the cost of certain health services related to breastfeeding with no out-of-pocket expenses, including breastfeeding supplies like breast pumps and milk storage bags, and lactation counseling. .” on record.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

“Consumers are not disciplined about saving in general,” with saving for healthcare lagging behind other types of savings, Alegeus observes in the 2018 Alegeus Consumer Health & Financial Fluency Report. Thus Alegeus says that peoples’ overall health insurance fluency is low. Alegeus surveyed 1,400 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Clearly, while supporting older peoples’ healthy living at home was part of Best Buy Health’s initial vision that went public in August 2018, the pandemic has accelerated the demand for services the Lively Flip supports. The company is now headed by Deborah DiSanzo who had previously led IBM Watson Health and Philips Healthcare.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Among stresses facing people at least 50 years of age, health care costs rank top of mind compared with other issues like long-term care, health insurance, Social Security, taxes, and being read to retire. Note that projected health care costs in retirement grew 23% in the four years prior to 2018, according to EBRI.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 lacked health insurance. million people in 2017.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. According to the team’s analysis, Amazon is not yet active in AR/VR, med-tech/biotech, or insurance (but see more on that below via Mike McSherry’s observations). Longer-term, Mike could envision Amazon expanding into health insurance.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. consumers’ frustrations — above managing the costs of care not covered by insurance. health-insured adults in July 2018. This survey was conducted among 2,509 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

I participated with the Aetna Foundation and team on examining the health equity aspects of this study in 2018, linked here. Fewer people in the area smoke, and Los Alamos also enjoys a high level of health-insured people: only 3% lack health insurance, compare with nationally 10.6% of people uninsured.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The loss of clinical autonomy, through strict utilization review, protocols, and heavy-handed health insurance interventions also contribute to doctors’ ill feelings and compromised productivity. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. The post Most U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

Consider: fighting health insurance appeals, crafting countless medical necessity letters, justifying being discharged against medical orders, and other battles fought hand-in-hand with her husband on behalf of Emmett and his well-being.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Those costs are shown in the household expenditure table here, illustrating that by 2018, the median household expenditures in the U.S. Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. could barely be covered by median household income.

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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. GDP, in 2018. It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. Fast forward nine years later.

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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 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

APRIL 14, 2020

In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving. Gallup polled over 20,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Nearly all Americans (86% net responsible) first blame health insurance companies, followed by hospitals (82%). adults 18 and over in August 2018. Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. Who’s responsible? The poll was conducted among 1,002 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018. Respondents were both uninsured and insured through individual coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual enrollees. McKinsey conducted the survey among over 12,500 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

More grocery stores added dietitians to their operations in 2018, as well. consumers’ highest-ranked health and personal care stores in 2018 were Kroger, Albertsons companies (with storefronts such as ACME, Jewel-Osco, Safeway and Vons), and Walgreens, shown by the first chart. ACSI’s research found U.S. percentage points.

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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. Like speaking “American,” health insurance in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2019

Launched in January 2018, Civica Rx started with pent-up demand for these medicines: nine months after launching, one-third of American hospitals had contacted the organization interested in accessing the generic drugs that Civica Rx was focused on supplying.

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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

APRIL 24, 2018

I covered the launch of the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer across all industries here in Health Populi in January 2018 , when this year’s annual report was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos as it is each year. In the U.S., Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points.

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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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