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

JUNE 26, 2023

Note that 21% of these sicker patients needed a particular doctor or hospital not covered by their insurance — that is, out-of-network. Three in five people with health insurance have had a problem with their plan in the past year. The top reason people in the U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue. 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.

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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

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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Health insurance and healthcare rank low here with consumer finance (think red-lining in mortgage and banking companies), utilities (think energy prices in the winter), telecomms (for phone and connectivity bills), and retail clothing (in ESG, thinking fast-fashion and sustainability). So you’re wondering who are the Top 10 U.S.

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NHA Now

AUGUST 25, 2020

They interact often with both healthcare professionals and patients, making soft skills essential. According to our recent survey of employers for the 2020 Industry Outlook. Medical administrative assistants are often the first person a patient interacts with at their visit. Professionalism: Picture this.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here. Individuals and their families are overwhelmed with the information, tasks, steep medical bills and the ‘unknown’ that cancer brings and are trying to manage everything with limited to no support.

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Relias

JANUARY 11, 2023

Payments are based on the quality of care provided, with providers earning an overall sum for treating a patient with a given condition. Seeks to coordinate care and improve the patient experience with price transparency, bundling of services, and personalized care teams called “ medical homes.”.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me.

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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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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Another benefit of the framework was that it could serve as a communication tool to help patients assess care quality and their satisfaction with the care they received. In 2020, researchers from Ireland, the U.S., Patient medical records include documentation of patient histories and care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. voters’ perspectives on health care reform looking toward Election Day 2020. On the demand side of U.S. Today as Election Day, I recall my post published yesterday here in Health Populi on U.S.

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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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Medical Advantage

MARCH 8, 2024

Practice management: Provides a single real-time medical billing dashboard to track all claim and appointment-related tasks, helping to maintain schedule density and optimize practice operations. athenaCollector : Streamlines the process of billing, collections, and patient payments.

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Relias

APRIL 28, 2022

In addition, coding requirements, regulations, and medical billing systems are subject to change, requiring your new and existing staff members to update their knowledge and skills at regular intervals to avoid mistakes that can lead to lost reimbursements. of claims between 2016 and the third quarter of 2020.

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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

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?”.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2024

For more on oral care at CES, see this post I wrote from CES 2020 on The Internet of Teeth. A CES 2024 Innovation Award winner for Accessibility and Aging Tech is Proclaim Health for the Custom-Jet Oral Health System. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As Rick Robinson the AARP Innovation Labs has said, “AgeTech is for all ages.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Clearly, digital transformation is top-of-mind for healthcare organizations pondering their workforce strategies for 2020. ” 2020 also means a Presidential election year, a theme PwC wove into their annual issue roadmap. voters will vote with both their political ballots and wallets for health care in 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

The latest (March 2021) Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll learned that at least one in three Americans were recently “struggling” to pay living expenses since December 2020, with six in ten families affected by COVID-19 having lost a job or income. adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Health care pocketbook issues rank first and second place for Americans in these months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, according to research from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health published on 19th February 2020. And that is health citizenship-bonding patient experience.

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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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