Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A new report from CoverMyMeds details the current state of medication access weaving together key health care industry and consumer data. The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S. One in three patients went without treatment or medications to pay for bills and basic needs, the research found.

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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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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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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

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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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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

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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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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. So what are patients most keen to access online in their medical records or portal?

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

WI Business Associate 4,112,892 Hacking/IT Incident 24 2023 Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing CO Health Plan 4,091,794 Hacking/IT Incident 25 2013 Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, d/b/a Advocate Medical Group IL Healthcare Provider 4,029,530 Theft 26 2024 Concentra Health Services, Inc.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

have been self-rationing medical care for many years, well before any of us knew what “PPE” meant or how to spell “coronavirus.” adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. Patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Thus, even with health insurance coverage through jobs, workers are dealing with affordability issues of paying for health care as medical costs take a position crowding out other household spending like housing, utilities, and education. This new year is a 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

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

On June 11, Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the agency’s vision to ban Americans’ medical debt from credit reports. He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New mental health medications are often more effective, while also offering fewer and/or less severe side effects. It is important for prescribers and other mental health professionals to stay informed about the latest medications so they can share the information with colleagues and make the right decisions for patients.

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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. health citizens are with respect to their medical information. And most patients would also want access to information on their mental, behavioral, and substance use history.

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NHA Now

AUGUST 25, 2020

Medical administrative assistants keep healthcare offices running smoothly. According to our recent survey of employers for the 2020 Industry Outlook. the top three most important soft skills for medical administrative assistants are professionalism, dependability , and verbal communication. Professionalism: Picture this.

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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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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

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

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

MAY 30, 2019

Medical costs have, in fact, ranked at the top of this list for three years in a row, with a five percentage point rise between 2018 and 2019. By age, it’s the oldest group of Americans most concerned about health care costs: 23% of people 65 and older rank medical spending as their top financial problem.

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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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Northwest Career College

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

If you have a passion for helping others and dream of making a difference in the healthcare field, a career as a medical assistant could be your path. Medical assistants are the heart of healthcare teams, working alongside doctors, nurses, and other professionals to provide the best care possible.

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MedVA

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Los Angeles – MedVA – the fast-growing provider of human virtual assistants for medical, dental and veterinary offices – has achieved two key milestones by employing more than 1,000 trained, highly-vetted virtual assistants (VAs) and servicing more than 500 active clients in its first 18 months of operation. billion in 2020 to $26.1

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older.

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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. To that point, consider the March 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll which learned that over one in three people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The second pie chart here in the Hot Points shows the split of medical costs shared by employers and employees. The pie chart illustrates that the employer covers $6 in $10 of medical costs, and the employee, $4 in $10.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 3, 2023

Students enter the field from diverse backgrounds and often with many personal struggles – from academic challenges, medical conditions, strenuous family responsibilities, mental health challenges, and even prior traumas. In 2020, I wasn’t doing the best in school. 2020, April 3). I was careless, unfocused, and unmotivated.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case about whether a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is immune from liability over data breach that exposed the personally identifiable information of patients.Sandhills Medical Foundation is an FQHC that serves patients in the Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, and Sumter Counties in South Carolina.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Since last week I wrote about medical debt in the U.S. The NBA finished its 2019-2020 season in a bubble, with players, staff, and media quarantined, playing in empty arenas. It’s not surprising that we end up with all that medical debt. publication ( The New York Times ) reported on it. In a nutshell, a Paris football (a.k.a.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One contributor to lackluster return-to-healthcare volumes is patients’ forgoing care due to cost — which Trilliant Health points out has overtaken COVID-19 concerns as the key driver for avoiding medical care services. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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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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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] That is because federal health care programs do not cover medical procedures that are not “medically necessary.” [5] Cosmetic surgeries are on the rise.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Families with children feel particularly strapped for the 2021 holiday season: while they will be less likely to reduce holiday spending, one-half are concerned about medical expenses compared with one year ago. Their top line is that hospital margins dropped for a second month as expenses climbed year-over-year, 2020-2021.

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