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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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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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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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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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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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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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

MARCH 2, 2020

Health care costs continue to be a top issue on American voters’ minds in this 2020 Presidential election year, this survey confirms. Health care costs now feel like this to folks like those feeling the acute pinch of medical costs in 2020. Four in five U.S. Called Rethink, Rewire, Retire , the research polled 2,001 U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Commonwealth Fund’s report bolsters the central premise of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, that the patient-is-the-payor as we approach the new year of 2020. This new year is a U.S.

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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

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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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

The last time more than 90 data breaches were reported in a single month was September 2020. Across the 93 reported data breaches, the protected health information of 2,971, 249 individuals was exposed or impermissibly disclosed – the lowest total for March since 2020.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As of 2022, three in four consumers were offered online access to their medical records by a health care provider or health insurance plan, and well over one-half accessed their medical record or portal — growing by 50% over the two years, 2020 to 2022 (from 38% to 57%).

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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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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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The major rise in HIPAA violation penalties in 2020 was largely due to a new enforcement initiative by OCR targeting non-compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access – the right of patients to access and obtain a copy of their healthcare data. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc.

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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

MARCH 3, 2025

Speaking of medical bills and payment, revenue cycle management is a perennially important issue covered at HIMSS and vendors continue to innovate for the patient financial experience. ” That was one area of health equity that became evident in early 2020. Reduce per capita costs. There’s more!”

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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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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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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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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For inspiration and context, I’ll kick off with Roz Chast’s latest New Yorker cartoon from the February 3rd 2020 issue — Strangers in the Night, taking place in a Duane Reade pharmacy. Roz really channels the scene in front of the pharmacy counter, from Q-tips to vitamins and tea.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Nearly one-half of Americans are spending more than or up to their income, and over one-third are unable to pay bills on-time. With greater financial burden forecast on healthcare consumers in 2019, no doubt we’ll see healthcare rank highly on voters’ minds in the 2020 Presidential election.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 3, 2023

When patients and families come in, they often deal with a long list of emotions – from apprehension about a diagnosis, severity of the condition, recommended treatment, long-term implications, and even future medical bills. In 2020, I wasn’t doing the best in school. 2020, April 3). References. 2021, October).

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2019

As such, healthcare will likely continue to be a major focus in national elections, including the 2020 presidential election. Foremost among these are healthcare costs, which have been a consistent concern over time but currently stand above all other concerns.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Together, the two reports from J.D. With more digital contact as well, J.D.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish. As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. Note that over one-half of people who were ill had serious problems paying at least one type of medical bill, from hospitals and prescription drugs to the doctor’s office and ambulance services.

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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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

Sandhills used a vendor (Netgain Technologies) for electronic storage of its scheduling, billing, and reporting systems. The vendor notified Sandhills on January 8, 2021, about a ransomware attack on November 15, 2020. Ransomware was deployed on December 3, 2020.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

2020 will undoubtably be a year that the healthcare industry will want to forget. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Vasilios Nassiopoulos, vice president of platform strategy and innovation, Hayes.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The chart here from the Unraveling Health trend discussion illustrates this point, showing a big jump from 2020 to 2022 in the share of consumers deferring care due to cost — from 17% to 31% of patients avoiding care. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

There’s still the issue of workers covering their deductible, and that challenge will continue in 2019 into 2020 for folks and their families dealing with chronic conditions and surprise diagnoses like cancer or autoimmune diseases. Given the lower rate of U.S.

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