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

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.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S. health care system.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2022

debt) by type: a low credit score, medical debt in collections, nonmedical debt in collections, bankruptcy, and any delinquent debt across all types. The actual costs calculated for any medical debt was an increase of 60% for individuals with no (0) chronic conditions at $784 rising to $1,252 for people with 7 to 13 conditions.

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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

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. adults 18 and over in January and February 2019. 27 million Americans — 1 in 100 people — each borrowed at least $10,000 to pay for medical care. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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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

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. Only weight and medication tracking had a majority of people using analog formats to track. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

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Health Prime

APRIL 25, 2024

In the complex world of medical billing, dealing with bad debt is an inevitable challenge that healthcare providers often face. Unpaid bills, denied claims, and delayed payments can significantly impact the financial health of a medical practice. Strategies to improve bad debt management in medical billing 1.

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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

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

OCTOBER 22, 2021

asked and answered by Michael Chernew and Harrison Mintz, both of Harvard Medical School. trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. We’re talking claims here — not an app to manage a complex condition like diabetes or even a medication adherence tool. It still does.

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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

JUNE 2, 2021

But like a déjà vu all over again, annual health care costs for a family of four enrolled in a PPO will climb to over $28,000 in 2021, based on the latest 2021 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). All categories of health care costs were lower in 2020 versus 2019, with the exception of prescription drugs. higher over the year.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

Medical grade wearables for data collection, and. Medical alert/personal emergency response systems for safety. Laurie also pointed out that both men and women are Apple Watch consumers, with nearly one-half of purchases made by women in 2019. greatest growth, up 15% in 2019. Fitness trackers, separate from watches.

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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 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

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% That is a 4.1%

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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

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

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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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. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. CA Healthcare Provider 2,364,359 Hacking/IT Incident 57 2024 Medical Management Resource Group, L.L.C.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

consumers age 18 and over in August and September 2019. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. Healthcare Consumer Experience Study.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

She was discharged with blood pressure medication. The project also finds that an FDA-approved medication for postpartum depression, Zulresso , has been on the market since 2019. He is a resident physician, and at the time he was beginning his final year of medical school.

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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). Zero and Roman are also part of telehealth.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to this year’s 2022 Milliman Medical Index , which annually calculates the health care costs for a median family of 4 in the U.S. I perennially select two alternative purchases for you to consider aligning with the MMI medical index. MMI 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386.

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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

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. This is one of the pillars for U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. medical trend growth projected for 2019 that will impact healthcare providers, insurers, and suppliers to the industry. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0%

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

A critical insight that’s quite clear from this chart from the report is that deaths from preventable and treatable causes substantially rose especially in certain states between 2019 and 2021 in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, too, medical debt tends to be greater in southern U.S. This bar chart illustrates that U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Two-thirds of people want to receive medication reminders, too. In addition to wanting a higher communication standard for clinical information and self-care, three-quarters of patients also want an easy way to understand and paying their medical bills. Take Control,” a phrase which Cigna has service-marked.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

While connected fitness was gauged in 2019, the other three categories were new to the 2021 study. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.

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