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

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish. let’s ensure health data access and equity by design as we collaborate to emerge stronger, healthier, and a more loving community in the wake of the public health crisis. To build healthcare back better in the U.S.,

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the importance of cross-industry collaboration to effectively move to value-based care, the other key theme coming out of the U-M Summit was health equity.

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Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The challenges of the pandemic and the introduction of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) in 2020 strained home health agencies’ capacity to initiate the start of care in the timely manner required. With more accurate assessments, home health agencies have opportunities for improved coding, billing, and outcomes.

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ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

Pharmacy Billing Specialist (PBS): Typically, specialty pharmacies utilize a PBS to optimize the billing process through their knowledge of billing regulations and healthcare system codes. THE PAYER: Finally, this step of the process determines whether the previous roles’ collaborative efforts have been proven successful.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I noted this Morning Consult survey , data shown here, finding that people of color who were lower-income as of June 2020 had a more difficult time paying for Internet and phone bills than white people with lower incomes. Thanks to my collaborators, Antoinette and Dave, demonstrating all these traits in our ATA session.

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Pharmacy Billing Specialist (PBS) : Typically, specialty pharmacies utilize a PBS to optimize the billing process through their knowledge of billing regulations and healthcare system codes. THE PAYER: Finally, this step of the process determines whether the previous roles’ collaborative efforts have been proven successful.

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NHA Now

JANUARY 1, 2024

From medical assistants, phlebotomists, EHR and pharmacy technicians to medical administrative assistants, billing and coding specialists, EKG technicians, and patient care technicians, these individuals play a pivotal role in the delivery of quality healthcare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2024

I spent time on “house calls” with two concepts for smart(er) living for health and well-being: with staff in the Amazon Experience Area, and at the Samsung Health House which is a project in collaboration with the AARP AgeTech Collaborative. ” We mere humans are all effectively aging in our places and spaces.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The CFPB will also continue to monitor medical debt, and for good reason: this Kaiser Health News research program has been highlighting providers’ lawsuits suing patients for unpaid bills, such as this column asking, “Will your hospital sue you?”. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

CVS building out an SDOH platform , collaborating with Unite US for the effort. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2019

So it’s not the bag or shoes or timepiece that people trade-off in a household budget: it’s the mortgage payment or food or gas tank or utility bill. Tonight, my collaborator and friend Colin Hung will host the #hcldr tweetchat at 830 pm Eastern time. .’s product, Zynteglo, which can be acquired on a gross basis at 1.58

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

Today, I’ll be brainstorming this convergence in a “collaborative health conversation” hosted by Carium’s Health IRL series. She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. Here’s a link to the event.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2020

voters on March 2nd and 3rd, 2020. At noon today, I participated in a call where Senator Chris Murphy spoke about the $8 billion bipartisan-sponsored bill to be passed by Congress for supplemental support to confront the coronavirus outbreak and fund testing, treatment and vaccine development.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

voters through 2019, and on the Presidential debate stages for both Democrats and Republicans leading up to the parties’ nominees for 2020. This bill would create a government-run drug company to produce and distribute generic medicines. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S.

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