Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

consumer spending rose from December 2021 to January 2022 for education, telecom, auto leases and loans, health care, car insurance, gas, groceries, health insurance, and public transportation. The rate of people lacking confidence in their ability to pay monthly grocery bills more than tripled from 1.8% in Arkansas.

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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. Only 17% of that amount was collected falling between $7,501 and $10,000, Crowe calculated.

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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 31, 2023

“Healthcare costs came roaring back in 2021” after falling in 2020. It is interesting to see that the annual health care cost for an individual’s inpatient hospital care remained relatively flat between 2021 and 2023, but shows an increase on the outpatient hospital side. AHIP commissioned a survey among 1,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of U.S. Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary , the first use of the phrase “health insurance” occurred in 1901. Consulting Noah Webster….and and ChatGPT.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). 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

APRIL 27, 2020

economy, impacting jobs, wages, and health insurance rolls. who have had their income impacted by the coronavirus have either fallen behind in paying off credit card debt or other bills, had problems paying for utilities, have lagged in paying for housing (rent or mortgage), been challenged paying for food, or other out-of-pocket costs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

In movies in particular, we’ve seen health care costs and hassles play featured in plotlines in As Good as it Gets [theme: health insurance coverage], M*A*S*H [war and its medical impacts are hell], and Philadelphia [HIV/AIDS in the era of The Band Played On], among dozens of others. Here’s the ad you can watch for yourself.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The medical establishment and insurance entities, including Medicare and Medicaid, don’t seem to be paying attention to our giant blind spots. They’re too busy billing and paying each other to zoom out and look at a macro level. America is getting sicker. Yet no one in our health care system is asking why.

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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. Power 2021 U.S. Together, the two reports from J.D. Commercial Member Health Plan Study.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

pre-care cost estimates that are accurate (personalized based on their own health insurance plans), payment plans for paying medical bills over time, digital payment options (think: Venmo meets medical bills), a multi-purpose portal, and mobile access for both administrative tasks and care — that is, virtual care/telehealth. .”

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ACMA Blog

MAY 21, 2024

However, navigating the complexities of RCM can be challenging, with billing errors, claim denials, and inefficiencies leading to financial losses and administrative burden. Detecting and Correcting Billing Errors Billing errors are a prevalent issue in healthcare, often resulting in delayed or denied reimbursements.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders. In that report, Guardian, an insurance and financial services company, asked people to rank the macro factors that shape their wellbeing.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021. Two-thirds of all patients had at least one telemedicine visit in 2021, compared with 42% in 2020 and 25% before the pandemic.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S. The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish. Patients in the U.S.

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Relias

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, the realities may include long work hours, an organizational focus on billing and insurance reimbursement, lack of respect from colleagues and leadership, a lack of autonomy, and other common challenges. Put together, this resulted in 330,000 healthcare workers leaving their jobs in 2021 alone.

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Relias

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health. Health insurance plans.

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Scrubs

JUNE 16, 2023

In fall 2021, staffers at Johnson Memorial Health were hoping they could finally catch their breath. One study found that cyberattacks on the nation’s health care facilities more than doubled from 2016 to 2021 — from 43 attacks to 91. The hospital’s billing department was also crippled. But on Oct. 1 at 3 a.m.,

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

The cost of healthcare in America is high, and the price for services can vary widely by region, a patient’s access to insurance, and even by insurance provider. As a result, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public rule on price transparency requirements for hospitals came into effect on January 1, 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

residents had no health insurance coverage, and another 38 million people were enrolled in “inadequate” health plans — deemed to be “under-insured.” physicians believe that a single-payer combined with insurance coverage would be the best healthcare system for the country.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

One-third of employers were already doing this in 2019, with another 20% adding in 2020 and 16% considering for 2021-22. Some 15% of companies will consider this tactic in 2021-22. 18% of large eployers offered rebates at POS in 2019, and 40% are considering incorporating this patient-Rx payment tactic in 2021-22.

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Doximity

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You can learn about ChenMed by visiting chenmed.com , or visit the upcoming ChenMed Physician Career Fair on November 18, 2021. I said, well, what about the people who don’t have insurance because, at the time, almost a third of my patients did not have any insurance. Dr. Novinson: Well, good morning, good afternoon, everybody.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The year-on-year decline from 2021 find oil and gas at the lowest level of positivity, advertising/PR, legal, the Federal government, and pharma at the bottom of the ratings. Which sectors enhanced consumers’ favorable views between 2021 and 2022? million more Americans lost health insurance during the Great Recession era.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

.” The data from the CDC reported was graphed in a CNN news report, shown here, where firearms overtook the top cause of death for people ages 1 to 18 from motor vehicle accidents in 2021 (reported out in CDC’s 2023 analysis).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

years in 2021; in the U.S., patients — now health consumers and medical bill payers with deductibles — bear greater shares of out-of-pocket health care spending, too, compared with health citizens in other nations. Note the hockey-stick line down and to the right for the U.S. The OECD life-span average at birth was 80.4

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. Monthly health insurance deductibles, among 44% of people. Monthly health insurance premium, among 36% of people. Prescription drug costs, for 43% of U.S.

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