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

MARCH 29, 2019

Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S. LIMRA wrote up this analysis in honor of National Women’s History Month as it draws to a close this month of March 2019. But one issue that brings U.S. Health Care Costs , a poll conducted by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H.

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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

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, 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

MARCH 2, 2020

This is true for all flavors of health care costs, including health insurance deductibles and premiums, out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, and the cost of long-term care. In the short run, looking into the next 12 months, one-third of Americans are worried about the amount they will pay for health insurance premiums and deductibles.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee. increase from the 2019 estimate, about twice the rate of U.S. That is a 4.1%

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Apria Healthcare, an Indianapolis-based provider of home healthcare equipment and related services, has agreed to pay $6,400,000 to resolve all claims related to data breaches in 2019 and 2021 that affected 1,869,598 individuals. In April 2019, hackers gained access to parts of its network where employee and patient data were stored.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. Similarly, a major data breach occurred at American Medical Collection Agency in 2019 that was reported by each covered entity, rather than AMCA. In 2023, 79.7%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Health insurance in-security is mainstream as of November 2018, when Gallup polled U.S. It’s also a big concern for four in ten people that someone in their family would be denied health insurance covering for a pre-existing condition, or that they might h ave to go without health insurance at some point.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). In 2019, Walmart took a stand when it re-imagined its sporting equipment and hunting aisles to stop stocking certain firearms. Technology was the only industry whose trust-equity fell in the year.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In research from HealthPocket , 2 in 5 Americans said they needed to reduce other household expenses to be able to afford their monthly insurance premiums. Four in ten consumers said their monthly health insurance premiums were increasing. on an annual basis as of October 2019. in the 12 months including October 2019.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

rural residents’ access to broadband at home continues to lag behind urban and suburban dwellers, the Pew Research Group noted in a May 2019 research note on Americans’ use of technology. In the U.S., Health Populi’s Hot Points: There’s a new social determinant of health in town, and it’s broadband connectivity.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer measured the biggest gap in trust for the healthcare industry between the U.S. over-the-counter medicines); and, health insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: There is much to mine for health/care industry stakeholders in Edelman’s 2019 Trust poll at this particular moment-in-time for U.S.

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