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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

The big gap in supply to patients vs. demand by health consumers is highlighted by what the arrow in the chart below points to: managing payments and paying bills. Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills.

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A 2025 Subaru Forester, a Year at U-New Mexico, or a Health Plan for a Family of Four: the 2024 Milliman Medical Index

Health Populi

As an Index, the MMI combines several line items of healthcare spending to make up the overall number, and this methodology allows us to compare the rising costs of care for a family of 4 covered by a PPO year to year.

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Medical Debt, Aflac on Eroding Health Benefits, the CBO’s Uninsured Forecast & Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices: A Health Consumer Financial Update

Health Populi

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. The bottom line, he said, was the need to prevent bad actors from, “seiz(ing) on medical debts as a major moneymaking enterprise.”

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When Is It Time to Advance Your Nursing Education? 

Minority Nurse

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. For LPNs/LVNs , the decision to return to school can directly relate to wanting more career mobility.

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

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. told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008.

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Telehealth Update from J.D. Power, Amwell, Cigna, GoodRx, and a Trio of Smart Doctors

Health Populi

Across all providers, AmWell scored highest at 885, followed by Doctor on Demand with 879 points. Cigna, the highest-scoring payer-backed telehealth organization, racked up 874 points on the 1,000-point scale. Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019.

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Justice Department Sues Iowa Surgeon Under False Claims Act for Masking Non-Covered Cosmetic Procedures as Covered Surgeries

Healthcare Law Insights blog

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] 1] Facelifts were up 54 percent. [2] 2] And breast procedures were up 48 percent. [3] 3] According to that study, Americans spent over $14.6 at ¶¶ 55–62. [8]

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