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

JANUARY 25, 2022

As physicians deal on the frontlines in Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re stressed, anxious, and angry concludes the Medscape 2022 Physician Burnout & Depression Report. The post Diagnosis: Stress, Anxiety and Anger – the 2022 Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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. in January 2022. in January 2022. There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 26, 2025

Rural hospitals often have low operating margins, high fixed costs relative to their urban counterparts, and have lower reimbursement rates from insurers. In 2022, 429 rural hospitals were at high financial risk. Due to limited budgets, rural hospitals often lack the resources to implement key cybersecurity improvements.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. The average monthly mortgage payment was $1,759 in mid-2022. The post Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Think value-based care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

A big uncertainty in this year’s forecast, pondering the 2022 picture, is what extent eliminate care will have on future adverse health outcomes… something that keeps my scenario planning humming across various modeling. Each year, I figure out what the average PPO cost could buy someone in exchange for that health insurance.

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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. While costs in the Index fell in 2021 (seen in the bar chart), in 2022 the MMI increased at a rate similar to pre-pandemic levels. or health care for a family of four.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2022

In this essay on health disparities and equity for older adults, I weave together new data from, The United Health Foundation’s study on seniors’ health status in America’s Health Rankings for 2022. RAND and CMS research into seniors health disparities among Medicare Advantage enrollees.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

The findings also point out that much of the costs result from the burden and time associated with dealing with specific practices that insurers have put in place around prior authorization and delays in payments. KPMG reveals that CMS predicts total hospital provider spending will increase by 50 percent between 2022 and 2030.

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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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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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

An investigation was launched, and it was confirmed that RIPTAs previous health insurance provider, UnitedHealthcare of New England, had provided RIPTA with files containing the data of non-RIPTA employees, and that data was compromised in the attack.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. One in two people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5 How to ensure insurers, employers, and others use IoHT and IoB data in the context of health and wellness with the opt-in of health citizens? million units with revenues of $4.5

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st. The post Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Creating An Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

One basic pillar of prescription drug access is health care insurance; CoverMyMeds points out that unemployment claims hit record (high) levels in 2020, with millions having lost health coverage. For this research, CoverMyMeds surveyed 1,000 patients, 400 providers, and 328 pharmacists in September and October 2020.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

The cohort enrolled patients from 2008 to 2022. This cohort was primarily made up of insured, educated, and non-Hispanic white patients. Design/Setting/Patients PASS is a North American multicenter, prospective cohort study that enrolled 2155 active surveillance patients with low-risk localized prostate cancer and no prior treatment.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

Data Breach Insights Healthcare accounted for 28% of data breach incidents, followed by finance and insurance (17%), business and professional services (15%), and education (13%). 27% of attacked companies paid a ransom in 2023, compared to 40% in 2022. The was a significant increase in data breaches at vendors. million in 2023.

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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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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Data breaches increased once again in 2022, with OCR receiving reports of 720 data breaches of 500 or more records. million records breached, and 2022 was worse with 51.9 Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. TX Business Associate 2,700,000 Hacking/IT Incident 44 2022 Connexin Software, Inc.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (2022) estimated over 100,000 registered nurses left the profession and predicted that another 800,000 nurses would follow them by 2027. According to the Joint Commission (2022), 1,441 sentinel events were reported in 2022, a 19% increase from 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

In that report, Guardian, an insurance and financial services company, asked people to rank the macro factors that shape their wellbeing. This consumer research was conducted in January 2022 — well before a gallon of gas cost an average of $4.98 in Hong Kong the week of 20 June 2022). in the U.S. in Belgium, $8.66

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Health Prime

APRIL 25, 2024

Clear and transparent communication about financial responsibilities, insurance coverage, and available payment options can reduce the likelihood of unpaid bills. According to the 2022 InstaMed Trends in Healthcare Payment Annual Report , 71% of consumers are confused by their medical bills.

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Mildred Elley

MARCH 19, 2025

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) 2) Which role stands out to you?

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

The privacy violation has been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as a breach of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“Two intersecting and interdependent systems comprise democracy in the United States,” Eileen Salinsky, Program Advisor with Grantmakers in Health, wrote in a compelling essay in April 2022. APA found in its October 2022 Stress in America study that many Americans are so stressed, they cannot function.

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ACMA Blog

JULY 9, 2024

Between 2013 and 2022, about 10% of rural independent retail pharmacies closed. Given the current state of PBM dominance, pharmacists, health insurers, and drug manufacturers often have little choice but to interact with the large, dominant PBMs when distributing certain drugs. OptumRx, Inc., Humana Pharmacy Solutions, Inc.,

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

I appreciated the opportunity to share my perspectives on “The Patient As the Payer: How the Pandemic, Inflation, and Anxiety are Reshaping Consumers” in a webinar hosted by CarePayment on 25 May 2022. It’s important to note that health care cost fiscal stress is not only a symptom for people lacking health insurance.

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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 7, 2022

Entering the fourth quarter of 2022, several studies were published in the past week which reinforce the reality that Americans are facing high health care costs, preventing many from seeking necessary medical services, and hitting under-served health citizens even harder in the economic downturn that so many U.S. adults in late June 2022.

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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

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. See here the level of cost-insecurity rose to 37% in 2023-24 from 32% in 2022. adults seen as cost-secure fell from 61% in 2022 to 55% in 2023-24. and 3.2%, respectively.

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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

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. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 19, 2023

for the most vulnerable childbearing populations, including Black mothers and those insured by Medicaid. These same nurse-to-patient ratios were included in the AWHONN nurse staffing standards published in 2022. Studies show that Medicaid pays hospitals less than half of what commercial insurers pay for a birth.

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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%. Collection rates for the bad debt fell from 76% in 2020 to 55% in just the one year from 2020 to 2021, a drop of nearly one-third.

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