Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

By late May 2020, 34% of black Americans had lost their jobs compared with 21% in late April, compared with 18% of white consumers, reported in The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Financial Impact on U.S. adults 18 and older on 28-29 May 2020. Credit card bills ranked top for 43% of U.S. As of May 2020, shoppers went to 2.8

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 10, 2020

By Bill DeLisi, CEO and CTO, GOFBA, Inc. In October 2020 a joint advisory by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services and the FBI noted there is a […]. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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NHA Now

AUGUST 11, 2020

The top three most important soft skills for billing & coding specialists are professionalism, dependability , and critical thinking , according to a recent survey of employers for our 2020 Industry Outlook. Here are some examples of how the top soft skills for billing & coding specialists can impact this role.

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Amber Pharmacy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The new Vitality program helps support patients through billing, medications, dietitian support and patient outreach. Billing Transplant billing can be very complex. The specialist also walks patients through the intricate billing process of transplant medications with Medicare Part B.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 10, 2024

From 2020 to 2022, CityMD falsely documented insured patients as uninsured before fraudulently billing the federal government for their COVID-19 care, according to regulators. CityMD denies the allegations.

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Valant

JULY 28, 2024

Each diagnosis must have a separate billing code that best describes the patient’s presenting symptoms. The ICD-10 code for suicidal ideation is R45.851, which is a separate family of coding from depression and other mental health disorders. Check out the latest 2024 ICD-10 updates here. Check out the 2023 ICD-10 updates here.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

Multiply that shared amount by 4 to envision a family of four’s costs, and you get $12,132 — a large chunk of household spending that can crowd out other family budget items from paying a utility bill to buying school supplies, taking a vacation, or filling a gas/petrol tank.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. most recently in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. That rivaled 31% of consumers who delayed going on vacation — an example of the inner-household rivalry between spending priorities.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 20, 2020

RHIA, RHIT, CHPS, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer As August 21, 2020 marks the 24th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s HIPAA Law, it is not a bad time […]. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Phyllis Miller, Ph.D.,

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Valant

AUGUST 19, 2024

Favored Wellness was founded in 2020 on owner Danielle Vogan’s vision of expanding access to trauma-informed, holistic care in the region. Valant made it easy to generate customized reports on payments, revenue, payroll, referral sources, billing documentation, outcome measures, and much more.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Recently Scott Galloway, the NYU professor, appeared on Bill Maher. With professor Vlad Kogan, I documented the clear data that schools must remain open, and worked extensively on this issue in 2020 and beyond. NYC was hit hard in April 2020, but closing schools was never a policy solution that would help.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

You may have wanted to work in a particular specialty, had your sights set on the traveler lifestyle, or were focused on making sure you could pay the bills, give your kids a good life, and plan for your eventual retirement. ” And finally, “… the proportionate growth among POC RNs was even greater.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. The American Psychological Association study I cited in that post from 2020 found that financial stress was indeed contributing to Americans’ sense of anxiety and depression.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S. These include self-rationing prescription drug fills or refills due to cost, putting off a doctor’s visit, relying more on credit cards than cash, and postponing paying bills, among many other choices between paying for meds or daily living expenses.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Novel Treatments for Anxiety Disorders Among antipsychotics, as of 2020, the only FDA-approved anxiety treatment is an older medication called trifluoperazine, which has the same problem with tardive dyskinesia following prolonged use ( Garakani et al.,

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MAY 17, 2023

One study of cosmetic surgery data found that body procedures like tummy tucks, buttock augmentation, and liposuction increased by 63 percent from 2020 to 2021. [1] 10] See, e.g. , “Texas Company Agrees to Reimburse Medicare for Improper Billing Related to Neurostimulators,” DOJ Press Release, Jan. Cosmetic surgeries are on the rise.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019. Power has measured telehealth satisfaction, based on four considerations: customer service, consultation, enrollment, and billing and payment. The study was fielded in June-July 2020 among 4,302 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. The President signed the $8.3

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. They used two ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes for this research: U07.1,

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

has skipped or stopped paying a bill, and over half of Americans have used emergency savings, according to a survey from the BlackRock Emergency Savings Initiative (ESI). adults 18 and over between May 7 and 11th 2020 by The Harris Poll, found that: 73% of Americans said the COVID-19 pandemic reduced their income.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. billion a day in March 2020 based on declining patient volumes. economic outlook for 2020 to 2030 on July 1, 2020.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

Today, 7th May 2020, the U.S. adults the week of 27 April 2020. Consumers are concerned about their ability-to-pay for all kinds of bills, shown in the bar chart. weeks of bandwidth until they would be unable to pay their bills. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that about 3.17 points from the previous week.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To study how FPA affects the racial and ethnic diversity within the NP workforce, the researchers used data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on practitioner enrollment in Medicare from 2014 to 2020. Between 2014 and 2020, the total number of NPs in the US grew by 86,806, noted the study. in 2014 to 3.7%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. Fast-forward to 2020, a few months into the pandemic in the U.S.: MGMA found physician productivity fell 45% in April versus the beginning of 2020, not rebounding much by July.

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CareerStep

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Offered through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), the Certified Professional Coder (CPC) credential is a gold-standard in the industry, allowing you to stand out when you’re applying for medical billing and coding jobs. Read more: CPC or CCA: Which Medical Billing Certification is Right for You? What is the exam like?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Check out the top causes of mortality in 2021: the death rates for heart disease significantly rose from 2020 to 2021, as did the rates of death due to unintentional injuries (those so-called Deaths of Despair from overdose, suicide, and accidents), and to be sure, COVID-19. decline in life expectancy? How about those Deaths of Despair?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021. Two-thirds of all patients had at least one telemedicine visit in 2021, compared with 42% in 2020 and 25% before the pandemic.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2020

households with children had serious financial problems during the pandemic as of July-August 2020. Furthermore, among the 61% of people with children in the pandemic who faced serious financial problems, 44% used up all or most of their savings by August 2020 and 31% had problems paying credit cards, loans, or other debt.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2020

Millions of mainstream, Main Street Americans entered 2020 feeling income inequality and financial insecurity in the U.S. For this report, PwC polled 1,683 full-time employed adults between 18 and 75 years of age in January 2020. For this report, PwC polled 1,683 full-time employed adults between 18 and 75 years of age in January 2020.

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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. With high health spending and lower life expectancy dollar for dollar, financial and health in-security will surely be voters’ priorities in 2020.

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Valant

JULY 29, 2024

Altered mental status, unspecified (R41.82) is a billable ICD-10 diagnostic code under HIPAA regulations from October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. ICD-10 Code for Altered Mental Status In this blog post, Valant discusses the ICD-10 code for Altered Mental Status.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2020

economy would decline in 2020 by 5.9%, shown in the bar chart. By April 10th, four in ten working people age 18 to 64 had felt one or more of these impacts in the past 30 days; those hardships included food security, medical care, ability to pay for energy (gas, oil or electric bills), or pay for housing (rent or mortgage).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

All of those daily life-flows are blurring, accelerated by the pandemic and trends already in play and place by early 2020. As patients continue to morph into health consumers and medical bill payers, they will seek value-based care based on their own values, customers, preferences, and beliefs.

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NHA Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

How can you stay current with the rapidly evolving medical billing codes related to COVID-19? For information on other issues pertaining to billing and coding, such as the 3 Essential Soft Skills for Billing and Coding Specialists, please subscribe to our blog. Those updates can be found here: [link].

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

are now delaying care is due to cost , not concerns about exposure to COVID-19 which created the phenomenon of “medical distancing” between 2020 and 2022, resulting in some patients avoiding preventive screenings and necessary care in face-to-face medical settings. “If The top reason people in the U.S.

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