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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

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Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. in 2021.

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Insured, Sick and Broke – The Latest on the State of U.S. Health-Insured Consumers’ Financial Health

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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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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

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The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

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Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

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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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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

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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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On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients

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World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. Danone works on medical nutrition designed around patients in various stages of diseases including allergy, metabolic disorders, oncology and stroke. Our health center provides free services to people who are un- and under-insured, regardless of ability to pay.