Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. The post Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Lack of inclusive design.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2020

health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. leading to growing un- and under-insured people).

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. Figure A shows the family health insurance premium cost-sharing between employers and workers over ten years. adults with medical debt expect to take at least a year to pay it off.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Advertising Age announced their list of the top 20 brands in 2020 this week. There’s medical evidence for gardening and spending time in green spaces). COVID-19 accelerated trends already in place by early 2020. By April 8, 2020, Dr. Fauci was the most trusted source of coronavirus information among U.S. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2020, national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States will exceed $4 trillion to cover 334.5 Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week. Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. lacked health insurance.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. Finally, SingFit positions its product and services as “music-as-medicine,” and brings music therapy to CES 2020. Heart-focused technologies are a big part of that growth story.

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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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The HIPAA Journal

JULY 5, 2024

The first instance occurred on December 15, 2020, and it continued until May 15, 2024. The nature of the access was not disclosed; however, Providence said there is an active investigation by the California Department of Insurance.

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Health Prime

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Medical practices are caught between declining reimbursement and increasing costs due to more complex regulations, higher employee costs, and the need for more sophisticated technology. Partnering with the right medical billing company is crucial for the financial health of your practice. But this is only the tip of the iceberg.

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Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

That positive economic news did not extend to medical care and personal care, the BLS reported, whose costs increased by 3.3% Motor vehicle insurance costs grew a whopping 19.5% growth for group health insurance plans is the highest rate of medical cost trend growth since 2012. and 3.2%, respectively. in the report, FYI).

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. Note that fewer younger people have a good handle on their financial responsibility for their medical care, the bottom data point in the chart.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. In the U.S.,

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Valant

JULY 29, 2024

Altered mental status, unspecified (R41.82) is a billable ICD-10 diagnostic code under HIPAA regulations from October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. This code is acceptable to insurers when used to describe a marked change in mental health status not attributable to other factors. Clinicians should only use the R41.82

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 3, 2019

2020 predictions from Luma Health chief medical officer and co-founder, Dr. Tashfeen Ekram. With an average profit margin of 8%, hospitals have higher margins than the pharmacy or insurance industries. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. ” A high scenario of medical trend calculates a 10.0%

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2021

consumers age 18 and over in February 2020 (just about the time the coronavirus pandemic was emerging in the U.S.) and 1,577 consumers in December 2020. to patients not seeking medical services due to cost. were cooking more at home by December 2020.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 hangover will be a key inflator of medical costs in 2022.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019. One-half said they weren’t confident in their ability to afford health insurance in or near retirement.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

While consumers’ most-trusted data steward is still physicians, even willingness to share health data with physicians fell from the high of 72% of consumers in 2020 to 64% in 2023.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 12, 2024

5] MHPAEA requires covered individual and group health plans and issuers of health insurance (collectively “Health Plans”) to collect and evaluate data and address the material differences between access to MH/SUD benefits when compared to medical/surgical benefits. 2020), [link]. [2] 2] David C. Sheridan, et al.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

Here for 2022, the second chart tracks the “stark toll” of the COVID-19 pandemic and the excess deaths experienced for each state since the pandemic emerged in February 2020. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%. Collection rates for the bad debt fell from 76% in 2020 to 55% in just the one year from 2020 to 2021, a drop of nearly one-third.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

Far and away the top reason for not obtaining health insurance in 2018 was that it was simply too expensive, cited by 60% of Millennials. Following that, 26% of Millennials noted that paying the tax penalty plus personal medical expenses were, together, less expensive than available health options.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. Beazley conducted a survey among 376 digital health and wellness practitioners and divined four key themes from the research on risk, growth, insurance, and understanding.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Among these events are Amazon’s plan to acquire One Medical , Apple’s publication of the paper, Empowering People to Live a Healthier Day , and other news that, together with these line items, signal a shake-up of American health care as we know it. The timing of my return to the U.S. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

In the report, published in April 2020, IQVIA mined the company’s many data bases that track real-time data, including medical claims, flu data, sales data, oncology medical and pharmacy claims, formularies, among other sources. health care. Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S. health care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. In research from HealthPocket , 2 in 5 Americans said they needed to reduce other household expenses to be able to afford their monthly insurance premiums.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By the autumn of 2020, U.S. The pandemic may have led to excess deaths from diabetes, dementia, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke, as well as record drug overdoses in the 12 months ending in May 2020. adults ages 18-64 as of September 11 through 28, 2020.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to this year’s 2022 Milliman Medical Index , which annually calculates the health care costs for a median family of 4 in the U.S. I perennially select two alternative purchases for you to consider aligning with the MMI medical index. At $30,260, you could pick one of these three options. institution of higher learning.

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