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.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

You may wonder how my husband lived almost 40 years and had three kids without ever being diagnosed – simple medical bias. 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.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2022

debt) by type: a low credit score, medical debt in collections, nonmedical debt in collections, bankruptcy, and any delinquent debt across all types. The actual costs calculated for any medical debt was an increase of 60% for individuals with no (0) chronic conditions at $784 rising to $1,252 for people with 7 to 13 conditions.

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Northwest Career College

AUGUST 24, 2024

As we look ahead to 2024, many individuals are considering whether medical billing and coding is a promising career choice. In this blog, we will explore the various aspects of medical billing and coding as a career, helping you make an informed decision about its suitability. What is Medical Billing and Coding?

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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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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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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

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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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. in 2021 to 7.3 in the report, FYI).

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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

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

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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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

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

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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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. Sheridan, et al., 4] Dep’t Health Hum. 4 2023), [link]. [5]

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MAY 31, 2023

“Healthcare costs came roaring back in 2021” after falling in 2020. family explained in the 2023 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance, conducted in April 2023. In 2023, that roaring growth in health care costs continues with expected growth of 5.6%.

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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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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

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

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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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

According to the Joint Commission (2022), 1,441 sentinel events were reported in 2022, a 19% increase from 2021. Financial Constraints and Budgetary Cuts Healthcare institutions often face financial constraints, with shrinking budgets and reduced reimbursements from insurance companies and government programs.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In this piece, he discusses one of those blind spots of the modern medical establishment—America is getting sicker right before our eyes. The medical establishment and insurance entities, including Medicare and Medicaid, don’t seem to be paying attention to our giant blind spots. We are going backwards. In the U.S.,

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. The biggest firms in America providing health insurance for workers are expecting an increase in medical services due to people delaying care in the wake of COVID-19, as we approach the “second winter” of the pandemic. One in two people in the 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. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

A critical insight that’s quite clear from this chart from the report is that deaths from preventable and treatable causes substantially rose especially in certain states between 2019 and 2021 in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, too, medical debt tends to be greater in southern U.S. This bar chart illustrates that U.S.

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