Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

Ballooning insurance premiums bloated administrative costs, and an opaque, middleman-driven system have left businesses with the highest healthcare costs in the worldtwice as much as top global competitors. The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2021 imposes strict new fiduciary requirements on employers that sponsor health plans.

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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

MARCH 4, 2021

economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. 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. The coalition polled 1,200 registered 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

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. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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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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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

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

asked and answered by Michael Chernew and Harrison Mintz, both of Harvard Medical School. trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. We’re talking claims here — not an app to manage a complex condition like diabetes or even a medication adherence tool. health care dollar.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. 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. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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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. appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee. These new workflows will also impact what the MMI will look like in 2021 and beyond. That is a 4.1%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. This further underscores the reality that medical spending in the U.S. in December 2021 to 5.7%

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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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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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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 17, 2025

The first unauthorized access occurred in February 2021 and continued until February 2023. When the privacy breach was detected, the matter was investigated internally, and the physical therapist was fired, although the lawsuit alleges KU Health failed to notify law enforcement about the illegal medical record access.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Only weight and medication tracking had a majority of people using analog formats to track. Why do people use wearable tech for health?

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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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Trends In Healthcare Data Breach Statistics Our healthcare data breach statistics clearly show there has been an upward trend in data breaches over the past 14 years, with 2021 seeing more data breaches reported than any other year since records first started being published by OCR. 2021 was a bad year for data breaches with 45.9

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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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.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2022

skipping needed health care due to cost tripled in 2021. This prompted West Health (the Gary and Mary West nonprofit organizations’ group) and Gallup to collaborate on research to quantified Americans’ views on and challenges with personal medical costs. medical system. The rate of people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). I’ve returned to the U.S. Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. The timing of my return to the U.S. healthcare system.

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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.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Apria Healthcare, an Indianapolis-based provider of home healthcare equipment and related services, has agreed to pay $6,400,000 to resolve all claims related to data breaches in 2019 and 2021 that affected 1,869,598 individuals. A further hacking incident was experienced in 2021 and was disclosed by Apria Healthcare in May 2023.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. 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. The coalition polled 1,200 registered U.S. population).

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

Medical grade wearables for data collection, and. Medical alert/personal emergency response systems for safety. Note that by 2021, 3 in 4 people over 70 owned a smartphone, one-half had a smart (connected) TV, and 20% owned some form of wearable tech. Fitness trackers, separate from watches. Continuous diabetes wearables.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

On the consumerism front, UHC found that over one-half of people have gone online via either web search or mobile app to find medical services and seek price transparency. Even 43% of Baby Boomers said they used the internet or mobile apps in the past year to shop for medical services.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

The terms health care, medical care, medical services and health services were largely used interchangeably during this period. The American Medical Association at first fretted that the show, Marcus Welby, M.D. Congress would hold its first hearings on the Health Care Crisis in America in 1971). In 1977, UnitedHealthcare Corp.

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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. Health/care is everywhere, beyond medical care.

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DrChrono

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Every provider wants their medical practice to hit the ground running in the new year, but unforeseen billing issues can stall your plans. During 2021 open enrollment, 45% of Americans were considering changing their insurance plans, and 4.6

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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. health citizens are with respect to their medical information. Patients 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 Prime

JANUARY 29, 2025

out-of-pocket healthcare payments in 2021 hit an all-time high of over 433 billion dollars. Health insurance out-of-pocket maximums have been increasing each year. The payment collection should evolve with the increased burden on patients to contribute to their medical bills. According to the Statista Research Department , U.S.

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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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