Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2021

What kind of organization would be behind this campaign: a healthcare navigator company, an insurance company, or a social services agency? It is, specifically, Midwest Heritage, Hy-Vee’s banking, insurance and investments subsidiary, that will implement the Medicare Aisle program. In the latest J.D.

Insurance 127

Insurance 127

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. In 2021, spending would return to pre-COVID projections. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.”

Insurance 112

Insurance Hospital Medication Documentation 112

Relias

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That’s why WFMH has chosen for its 2021 theme, “Mental Health in an Unequal World.”. The high cost of mental health treatment, including insufficient insurance coverage, was also highlighted in the study. In March 2021, KFF found that 47% of adults are still reporting negative impacts on their mental health due to the pandemic.

Best Practices 98

Best Practices Insurance 98

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

When high-deductible health plans became part of health insurance design in America, they were lauded as giving patients “more skin in the game” of health care payments. “Instead, they’ve faced thousands of dollars in bills as health insurers shifted costs onto patients through higher deductibles.” “U.S.

Insurance 124

Insurance Medication Billing Huddles/Rounds 124

Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Getting the best insurance for Medicare will require in-depth research to obtain a better idea of the best options available. After you educate yourself on insurance plans and learn what to look for, you can […]. The article What Is The Best Insurance To Get With Medicare? Illegal copying is prohibited.

Insurance 103

Insurance 103

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. For months afterward, they were unable to bill insurance plans to be paid in a timely fashion.

Insurance 186

Insurance Hospital Vital Signs Billing 186

Scrubs

MARCH 29, 2023

Over 106,000 people died of drug-related overdoses in 2021 alone, according to the National Institute of Health. Narcan is currently free to anyone on Medicaid or private insurance. But most insurance plans don’t cover the cost of OTC medications. But some are still worried that the cost of the drug is too high.

Insurance 246

Insurance Medication 246

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

Fast-forward through the 1990s and the advent of PBMs — pharmacy benefit management companies — the intermediaries managing drug benefits for health insurance plans. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies. Now: consider Costco.

Insurance 154

Insurance Medication 154

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S.

Discharges 71

Discharges Insurance Huddles/Rounds Hospital 71

Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2021

And in 2021, the focus on compliance is expected to increase. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) affects thousands of organizations across the […]. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

HIPAA 136

HIPAA Insurance 136

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. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

Insurance 71

Insurance Medication Communication 71

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. voters in late January 2021, culminating in a report, The COVID Effect: Consumer Expectations for Health Care Coverage, Cost and Quality in 2021.

Insurance 127

Insurance Patient Advocacy Collaboration Medication 127

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.

HIPAA 173

HIPAA Diagnostics Best Practices Medication 173

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Two pharmaceutical companies bubble up among the 20 fastest-growing brands for 2021 in Morning Consult’s report on the Fastest-Growing Brands of 2021. Morning Consult’s key takeaways were that: 2021 was the year of digital payments, cryptocurrency, and fintechs. Cash App, Mastercard, Chime, and Bitcoin.

Insurance 71

Insurance Medication 71

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. Among those covered with insurance, one-half had employer-sponsored insurance, 1 in 4 Medicare, and 13%, individual cover. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program.

Insurance 161

Insurance Tests Follow-Up Huddles/Rounds 161

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Fast forward to 2021 where I am now an attending physician running a clinic and working as a hospitalist. medical system with access to quality healthcare and insurance, yet Vivian went undiagnosed by doctors. Our oldest daughter even had a brain bleed when she was three, and again there was no deep look into the cause of them all.

Medication 276

Medication Admissions Follow-Up Insurance 276

Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

The reality of patients entering doctors’ offices expecting to deal with their health care cost challenges is spelled out in The Increasing Role of Physician Practices as Bill Collectors – Destined for Failure , published in JAMA , 30 July 2021.

Billing 133

Billing Insurance Patient Experience Hospital 133

Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

some aspects of “digital transformation” seem not to have fully transformed American healthcare, we learn in HIMSS’s annual 2021 State of Healthcare Report. The study assessed payors’ perspectives in 2021, finding their top three concerned were increasing costs, quality of care, and the prospects for another pandemic.

Insurance 71

Insurance Hospital Collaboration Medication 71

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. Highmark, which covers health insurance for members in Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, has been working on social determinants of health programs for several years. In the U.S., population).

Insurance 163

Insurance Collaboration 163

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2022

To explain this surprising finding, the researchers explain the methodology for this analysis: using data from claims in commercially-insured PPO among a largely working-age (younger) population which potentially left out patients with cancer consuming high-cost end-of-life care.

Medication 117

Medication Insurance Best Practices 117

Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Medical insurance verification software is developed to automate the process of verifying patients’ insurance coverages. This software is connected to the insurance company’s database to retrieve real-time data on a patient’s insurance status. In 2022, 92.1 percent of people, or 304.0 percent and 36.1

Insurance 52

Insurance EHR / EMR Medication Patient Satisfaction 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.

Medication 174

Medication Hospital Insurance 174

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

News & World Report’s 2021 Healthiest Communities Rankings. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart details some data points from the Los Alamos 2021 profile, which landed the community the top spot for healthiest place in the United States this year. of people uninsured.

Huddles/Rounds 133

Huddles/Rounds Insurance Collaboration 133

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.,

Insurance 77

Insurance Outpatient Care Follow-Up Hospital 77

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.

Insurance 143

Insurance Follow-Up Medication Billing 143

The Healthcare Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Turns out he didn’t have to remember that number for long as by 2021 he was making $12m. Because in 2021–the last year for which UPMC filed a 990 –Tracey was the 118th highest paid executive at UPMC and had the misfortune to only make $499,446. But the munificence is spreading down the executive ladder. So why do I bring them up?

Hospital 130

Hospital Huddles/Rounds Insurance 130

Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

health care administrative spend that could be freed up to, for example, cover more peoples’ health insurance or extend food benefits to bolster nutrition security and prevent physical wasting during cancer treatment for a person enrolled in Medicaid.

Patient Experience 174

Patient Experience Insurance Medication Hospital 174

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

In 2021, all economies are expected to recover at some level, the brighter news in the third column in the last chart. national policies to attend to both the financial/economic scars as well as physical and mental health now and in post-pandemic life in 2021. .” In 2020 advanced economies (including and beyond the U.S.)

Tests 174

Tests Insurance Medication 174

The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services has proposed a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2021 data breach that exposed the data of up to 350,000 patients.

HIPAA 98

HIPAA Follow-Up Best Practices Documentation 98

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

In addition, these counties also had a higher percentage of working-age people lacking health insurance. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth.

Insurance 170

Insurance Medication 170

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

With such turbocharged growth on the supply side, Beazley, experts in specialty insurance, explores the risks of digital health and wellness in a new report, Digital health, telehealth and wellness: Attitudes to risk and insurance. The two key risks were client complaints due to misrepresentation, and cyber-attack or system failure.

Insurance 98

Insurance Patient Records Collaboration Medication 98

Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2022

physicians mindsets and mental health, Medscape polled 13,069 physicians across 29 specialties between late June and September 2021 via a 10-minute online survey. Prior to COVID-19, 68% of physicians said they were happy with work and life; currently (2021), only 47% of doctors said they were happy.

Scheduling 114

Scheduling Insurance Communication Medication 114

Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the challenges has been price transparency, which is the central premise of this weekend’s New York Times research-rich article by reporters Sarah Kliff and Josh Katz: Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. in July 2021, the lowest read since December 2011. Here’s Why.

Patient Experience 90

Patient Experience Billing Insurance Hospital 90

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.

Insurance 101

Insurance Billing Best Practices Collaboration 101

Medical Economics

JANUARY 9, 2025

million more enrollees compared to 2021. With time still left to enroll, the 2025 marketplace open enrollment period has seen 11.6

Insurance 52

Insurance 52

Health Populi

MAY 11, 2021

who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot have a welcoming side-effect: peace of mind and mental health, according to a survey conducted by Walgreens in April 2021. adults over 18 years of age between April 19 and 21st, 2021. Most people in the U.S. Walgreens conducted the poll online among 1,500 U.S.

Scheduling 133

Scheduling Insurance Medication 133

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. In September 2020, PwC surveyed consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance about their preferred locations to receive a COVID-19 vaccine within one year of its approval. population health burden.

Insurance 116

Insurance Medication Hospital Patient Experience 116