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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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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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.

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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

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

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

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

JULY 26, 2021

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic motivated health care providers, payers, and patients to adopt digital tools and contact-less services, allowing people to deliver and receive medical care. The annual 2021 HIMSS Global Conference will be meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, the week of August 15th.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

believe the pandemic won’t be under control until sometime after June 1, 2021. Because a plethora of patients have postponed seeking medical care from their doctors, 43% of physicians have reduced staff; another 18% expect to do so in the next year, the chart also indicates. One-half of physicians in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

Consider: fighting health insurance appeals, crafting countless medical necessity letters, justifying being discharged against medical orders, and other battles fought hand-in-hand with her husband on behalf of Emmett and his well-being. Parexel discovered Stacy who was delivering a keynote speech at DPHARM 2021.

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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 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

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.

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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

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

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. “Countries should continue to spend generously on their health systems, perform widespread testing, and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies. will decline by -6.1%.

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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

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

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

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

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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

could have a behavioral health need in 2021. McKinsey concludes that the behavioral health impact of the pandemic will undoubtedly last beyond 2020, with certain conditions like PTSD not appearing until 2021 and lasting years beyond the onset. Overall, 1 in 3 people in the U.S. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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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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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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Emergency Response Insurance Medication 138

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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