Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 3, 2024

In today’s digital age, medical billing software plays a vital role in streamlining the billing process and improving patient care. The industry experienced 1,410 cyberattacks a week in 2022, an increase of 86%. The industry experienced 1,410 cyberattacks a week in 2022, an increase of 86%.

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WSMDA

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Why You Should Consider Medical Billing and Coding Training in NY Are you looking to change careers? If any of these things are true, you should be looking into medical billing and coding training in NY ! If any of these things are true, you should be looking into medical billing and coding training in NY !

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 10, 2024

From 2020 to 2022, CityMD falsely documented insured patients as uninsured before fraudulently billing the federal government for their COVID-19 care, according to regulators. CityMD denies the allegations.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 31, 2024

Average Salary ( ZipRecruiter, NJ ): $43,978 Job Outlook ( BLS, 2022-2032 ): 14% (Much faster than average) Learn More: Medical Assistant Certification Program Phlebotomy Technician What Do They Do? Where Do They Work? Medical Assistants work in healthcare settings such as clinics, hospitals, and doctor’s offices. Where Do They Work?

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. The bottom line, he said, was the need to prevent bad actors from, “seiz(ing) on medical debts as a major moneymaking enterprise.” Looking forward even further out a decade to 2034, the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Keep that relationship in mind in the context of a new forecast from Kaiser Family Foundation estimate the 2023 cost for employer-sponsored insurance for a family to reach nearly $24,000 in 2023. The APA found in the 2022 study that stress related to money reached the highest level Americans felt since 2015.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

Milliman found that in 2024, the health-insured employee for an average person/family member is paying 26% of health care costs and 16% out-of-pocket, and employers cover 58% of healthcare costs in general.

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Health Prime

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Establish a robust system that verifies insurance information before the appointment. According to a Mad*Pow research report , 61% of patients are confused by their medical bills. The report also stated that most of them identified providers or their billing department as the root cause of their frustration and errors.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins. Only 17% of that amount was collected falling between $7,501 and $10,000, Crowe calculated.

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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

MAY 18, 2023

consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. And, over one-half of patients have also sought information about medical bills. On April 11, 2023, three of the largest U.S. million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

These include self-rationing prescription drug fills or refills due to cost, putting off a doctor’s visit, relying more on credit cards than cash, and postponing paying bills, among many other choices between paying for meds or daily living expenses.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In fact, medical bill angst in America isn’t just a December holidays thing: they’re a year-round source of anxiety, Aflac found. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Aflac also looked at Americans’ state of financial health comparing people who had health insurance versus those who were uninsured in 2021.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. Gallup and West Health have been studying Healthcare in America , finding in their June 2022 consumer survey that one in four people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. have not returned to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. That’s the demand side.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders. In that report, Guardian, an insurance and financial services company, asked people to rank the macro factors that shape their wellbeing. in the U.S. in Belgium, $8.66

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2023

consumers feel in worse financial shape now than in 2022, with inflation a top concern, discovered in the 2024 New Year’s Financial Resolutions Study from Fidelity Investments. One-third of U.S. In fact, 45% pf people said they had to take money out from their emergency savings for current spending needs.

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ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

It is the insurance or payers’ way of controlling costs by approving or denying certain medications, procedures, or devices that may not usually be covered or is on a higher tier on the formulary. They ensure that patients are appropriately utilizing the healthcare services available by their insurance. Dixson, Kiana. link] ASHP.

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Mildred Elley

APRIL 8, 2024

Do you see yourself in the exam room or would you rather be managing the files, phone calls, and insurance claims? As people continue to seek out preventive healthcare services, employment of medical assistants is projected to grow 14% from 2022-2032. 2 Which role stands out to you?

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Milliman 2023 MMI publication coincides with that of a new survey from AHIP, the health insurance advocacy organization, exploring the value of employer-provided coverage in 2023. consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance, conducted in April 2023.

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ACMA Blog

JULY 19, 2023

When the pharmacy receives the prescription for the patient, they’ll verify that the drug is on formulary, covered by the patient’s health insurance and submit a claim. The insurance company would review the claim and verify the patient’s coverage to check deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

First, several health insurers who sold their reputation to Wall Street as being wizards at understanding how doctors and patients behave had the curtain pulled back to reveal the man pulling the levers was missing a dashboard or dial or three. Yes, all these patients are being billed or misbilled for individual procedures and visits.

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It is the insurance or payers’ way of controlling costs by approving or denying certain medications, procedures, or devices that may not usually be covered or is on a higher tier on the formulary. They ensure that patients are appropriately utilizing the healthcare services available by their insurance. Dixson, Kiana. link] ASHP.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

MARCH 11, 2024

Health Insurance Companies: Handle administrative tasks and claims processing. Medical billing and coding. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of Medical Assistants is expected to grow by 14% from 2022 to 2032 , much faster than the average for all occupations. Medical Laboratories: Aid in specimen collection and basic tests.

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CareerStep

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Offered through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), the Certified Professional Coder (CPC) credential is a gold-standard in the industry, allowing you to stand out when you’re applying for medical billing and coding jobs. The CPC-P is for those who are employed by insurance providers, Medicare, or Medicaid.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

. “Medical debt is the most common collection tradeline reported on consumer credit records,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called out in a report published March 1, 2022. To determine whether unpaid medical billing data should be included in credit reports.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In April of 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that nurse practitioners with more than 3600 hours of clinical experience have full practice authority and are no longer mandated to have any contract with physicians to practice. On the Senate side, there is just one Senate co-sponsor.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

The report reviews medicines spending in 2017 looking forward to 2022. billion OOP for prescription drugs: OOP costs include copayments, coinsurance, payments during the deductible phases of health insurance, or retail payments for drugs due to the lack of prescription drug insurance coverage. There were over 5.8

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Relias

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“It will be imperative for medical practices and organizations to focus on their billing and denial management to maximize revenue in 2023,” noted Cristy Good, MPH, MA, senior industry advisory and coding expert at MGMA. Some insurance companies have a list of “preferred” infusion drugs and won’t pay for other drugs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Thus, the sage advice as we approach gatherings for Christmastime 2022: “Close your mouth and step away from the human,” by Katherine Wu of The Atlantic. consumers’ financial wellbeing in November 2022. Which virus is it?” Entering 2023, U.S.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 27, 2024

OneMedical started as a concierge provider of “direct primary care”, and on discovering how limited the market was, morphed into billing and collecting from insurance for each visit, then into shaking down local hospitals for the referrals. Many are watching how long Amazon tolerates those losses.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

patients viewed their laboratory test results online in 2022. As of 2022, three in four consumers were offered online access to their medical records by a health care provider or health insurance plan, and well over one-half accessed their medical record or portal — growing by 50% over the two years, 2020 to 2022 (from 38% to 57%).

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

For example, a new Hospital Price Transparency Rule came into effect in 2022. The cost of healthcare in America is high, and the price for services can vary widely by region, a patient’s access to insurance, and even by insurance provider. Additional rules took effect in July 2022. What is the Price Transparency Rule?

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

physicians are worried about big social issues, according to a Medscape survey report, Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues 2022. residents had no health insurance coverage, and another 38 million people were enrolled in “inadequate” health plans — deemed to be “under-insured.”

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Health Populi

JULY 19, 2022

” Calling out the social determinant of health risk that transportation represents, Honey told KY3, “ Your health insurance doesn’t pay for your gas, and we know fuel prices are just getting more and more expensive,” Honey said. “So In that June 2022 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 100 million people in the U.S.

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