Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2019

who have health insurance must take on a deductible of some amount, which compels that insured individual to spend the first dollar on medical services up until they meet their financial commitment. Consider a 2016 Aflac survey asking consumers what their ideal health insurance shopping experience should feel like. ” Amen.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). The Milliman MMI team has updated the methodology for the Index; the chart shown here is my own, recognizing that the calculations and assumptions beneath the 2019 data point differ from previous years. Milliman has changed the methodology for the 2019 MMI.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2019

Without online access, people can’t seek jobs, get educated, enroll in health insurance, socially connect with other people, and seek health information for self-care or diagnosed conditions on WebMD or “Dr. There was a lot of Twitter activity in my tweet-feed about an Amazon Alexa-enabled toilets at CES 2019.

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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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Sensible Medicine

JULY 29, 2024

In 2019, I wrote about the provocative book Elephant in the Brain --co-authored by George Mason economist Robin Hansen. He cites the Rand , Oregon and Indian health insurance studies, which all find little to no effect of giving health insurance to people.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. In the latest OECD report Society at a Glance 2019 , published last week, the U.S. Given a $60K median U.S. As they will also be top-of-mind for U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2019

The average 65-year old couple retiring in 2019 will need to have a cash nest-egg of $285,000 to cover health care and medical expenses through retirement years, Fidelity Investments calculated. The post What $285,000 Can Buy You in America: Medical Costs for Retirees in 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 12, 2020

By the end of the first quarter in 2019, investment records had already broken new records, and went on to surpass $3 billion, coming second […]. The article How The Use of Insure Tech Can Help Businesses Preserve Their Employees’ Health appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. By 2015, it was $2.5

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

adults in August 2019 regarding 25 issues concerning health care and digital technology. 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. The Center analyzed the perspectives of 1,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Amazon down 8 points.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. An October 2019 CBS News Poll on how Americans feel about U.S. starts Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. .

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In 2019, it appears that patients have backslid, according to the 2019 Healthcare Consumerism Index from Alegeus. adults in September 2019 on issues concerning health care costs, shopping, value, saving and spending. The first chart shows that the 2019 Index fell from 60.1 points in 2018 to 57.9 households.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

And those companies include the insurance industry and financial services firms, we found in the 2010 Edelman Health Engagement Barometer. John Hancock, which covers about 10 million consumers across a range of products, is changing their business model for life insurance. These offerings will begin to be marketed to consumers in 2019.

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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. For this study, Nationwide polled 1,462 older adults age 50 and over with at least $50,000 of investable assets in March and April 2019.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

FAIR Health based these numbers on private insurance claims associated with COVID-19 diagnoses, evaluating patient demographics (age, gender, geography), hospital charges and estimated allowed amounts, and patient comorbidities. privately-insured people. They used two ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes for this research: U07.1,

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

The findings also point out that much of the costs result from the burden and time associated with dealing with specific practices that insurers have put in place around prior authorization and delays in payments. Higher prices for medical services, medications, and insurance premiums directly impact patients’ out-of-pocket expenses.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2023

” HealthEdge’s latest research into health consumers’ perspectives finds peoples’ satisfaction with their health insurance plans lacking, with members seeking easier access their personal health information, high levels of service, and rewards for healthy behaviors.

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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

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. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

All categories of health care costs were lower in 2020 versus 2019, with the exception of prescription drugs. Each year, I figure out what the average PPO cost could buy someone in exchange for that health insurance. The team also calculated annual health care costs per individual, which are expected to be $6,516 in 2021, about 7.6%

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

Laurie also pointed out that both men and women are Apple Watch consumers, with nearly one-half of purchases made by women in 2019. The older adult consumer segment for Apple Watch adoption has the greatest growth, increasing 15% in 2019. largely made by older men, by 2019, women liked them too – and nearly half of the watches are.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2021

trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. health care administrative spend that could be freed up to, for example, cover more peoples’ health insurance or extend food benefits to bolster nutrition security and prevent physical wasting during cancer treatment for a person enrolled in Medicaid.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019. Overall, the telehealth segment achieved a higher consumer satisfaction score (860 points out of 1,000) than other sectors J.D.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The last chapter of HealthConsuming, published in 2019, asked whether U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic in America has combined with: A national economic recession and job losses.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. Health insurance’s decline from 55% in 2017 to 46% in 2018, recovering in 2019 then falling again to a low of 43% this year in the 2021 Barometer.

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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. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance. million people in 2017.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments). Ro will expand in women’s health in 2019.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

counties revealed that most of observed racial disparities for COVID-19 deaths persisted after controlling for overall 2019 mortality rates and COVID-19 cases per 100,000. ASPE points to, “long-standing systemic inequalities and structural racism” at the start of the Agency’s discussion of the disparities.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2022

To explain this surprising finding, the researchers explain the methodology for this analysis: using data from claims in commercially-insured PPO among a largely working-age (younger) population which potentially left out patients with cancer consuming high-cost end-of-life care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

consumers age 18 and over in August and September 2019. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. When Aflac asked prospective buyers of health insurance what their shopping experience should feel like, 1 in 2 consumers said, “like Amazon.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

adults 18 and over in January and February 2019. 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. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

That question in the title of this post is begged in the annual 2019 consumer survey released this week from UnitedHealthcare (UHC). UHC gauges peoples’ views on health care, insurance, and costs in its yearly research. This year, transparency and health literacy challenges top the findings.

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