Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

But with digital health adoption gains has come some ambivalence and mixed signals, Accenture has discovered in its 2021 Health and life Sciences Experiences Survey released this week during the HIMSS Annual Conference. As “patient engagement” emerges as a top priority for U.S.

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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.

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

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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.

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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. 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.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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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.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2021

being covered by health insurance is one of the social determinants of health. But even with health insurance coverage, most health-insured people are concerned about medical costs in America, found in a MITRE-Harris Poll on U.S. consumers’ health insurance perspectives published today. In the U.S.,

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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.

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DrChrono

DECEMBER 28, 2021

During 2021 open enrollment, 45% of Americans were considering changing their insurance plans, and 4.6 million Americans have signed up for health insurance coverage on Healthcare.gov or their state’s marketplace in that period.

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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.

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2021

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

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. in 2021 to 7.3 in 2021 rising to $23.16 That positive economic news did not extend to medical care and personal care, the BLS reported, whose costs increased by 3.3%

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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

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.

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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?

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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. for Disease Control Prevention, Youth Risk Behavior (2011 – 2021), [link]. [3]

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

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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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Northwest Career College

AUGUST 24, 2024

Medical coding involves translating medical diagnoses, procedures, and supplies into universal alphanumeric codes for billing and insurance purposes. On the other hand, medical billing involves submitting and following up on claims with health insurance companies to receive payment for services rendered by a healthcare provider.

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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.

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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

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.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. now, looking at health citizens’ trust in five segments of the health care industry between 2015 and 2021. in the first quarter of 2020. and around the world.

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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. in December 2021 to 5.7% .; more granularly, $4.83 in California, and $3.85 in Illinois, and a low of $3.23 in Arkansas.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. adults 18 and over in August 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2024

Hospitals are not alone in price cliffs, with health insurance premiums spiking last year at the fastest rate in a decade, the Labor Statistics data showed. “For patients and their employers, the increases have meant higher health-insurance premiums, as well as limiting wage hikes,” Melanie Evans explained.

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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.

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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. Like speaking “American,” health insurance in the U.S.

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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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2024

The bar and line chart here shows the trajectory of 3 GLP-1s from January 2021 to the end of 2023: Ozempic, by far the most-prescribed of the three medicines represented over 70% of the fills in the period; Wegovy and Rybelsus were adopted at a much lower rate by late 2023. Now we tie that utilization to the source of payment.

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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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 23, 2023

The peak of venture investment for digital health was in 2020 and 2021, precipitously declining later in 2022. In my January 2023 column for Medecision. I weave the pragmatic story together based on datapoints from JP Morgan’s 2023 annual healthcare meeting in San Francisco and CES 2023 held in Las Vegas the previous week.

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