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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Billing Hospital Insurance Collaboration 71

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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Insurance Follow-Up Tests Medication 174

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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Hospital Collaboration HIPAA Best Practices 77

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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Medication Outpatient Care Hospital Diagnostics 87

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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Insurance Appointments Billing Hospital 62

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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Insurance EHR / EMR Medication Patient Satisfaction 52

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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Insurance Transfers Hospital Medication 62

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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Medication Insurance 62

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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Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Best Practices Hospital 62

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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Insurance Appointments Billing Medication 147

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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Medication Hospital Insurance 174

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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HIPAA Follow-Up Certification Business Associate 116

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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Tests Medication Appointments Billing 103

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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Business Associate HIPAA Unit Organization and Environment Hospital 111

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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Patient Care Hospital Critical Thinking Patient Safety 111

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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HIPAA Insurance 51

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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Follow-Up Billing Insurance Hospital 115

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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Billing Medication Communication Follow-Up 105

Health Populi

MAY 6, 2022

The older peoples’ more positive views on health care value (relatively speaking) may have to do with their perceived value of Medicare coverage compared with younger people who would be more likely covered by commercial insurance (with high deductibles) or Medicaid (variable experiences by State). This baseline read is that 3 in 4 U.S.

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Insurance Medication Collaboration 108

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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Medical Assistant Medication Certification Vital Signs 52

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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HIPAA Hospital Insurance 120

Practice Index

APRIL 10, 2025

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: It is only because of the necessary decisions we took to increase employer National Insurance that we are able to recruit more GPs and deliver better services for patients. The Department of Health said the recruitment would help end the 8am scramble for appointments.

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Huddles/Rounds Triage Follow-Up Appointments 52

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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Insurance 83

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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Insurance Patient Centered Care Medication Certification 98

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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Billing Insurance Customer Service Patient Experience 105

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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Insurance Medication 71

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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Insurance Hospital Collaboration Billing 117

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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Follow-Up Insurance Hospital Medication 174

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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Hospital Insurance Patient Safety Medication 98

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. Monthly health insurance deductibles, among 44% of people. Monthly health insurance premium, among 36% of people. Overall, 55% of people in the U.S. This report compares U.S.

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Long Term Care Follow-Up Insurance Billing 77

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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Hospital Insurance Billing Huddles/Rounds 71

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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. voters’ top-of-mind issues for health care and overall election priorities for mid-terms 2022. Expect health care costs to remain on U.S.

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Discharges Insurance Hospital Huddles/Rounds 71

The HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The use of ransomware in cyberattacks decreased slightly in the first half of the year; however, the severity of ransomware attacks increased according to the 2024 Cyber Claims Report: Mid-Year Update from cyber insurance and security service provider Coalition.

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Follow-Up Insurance Transfers HIPAA 96

Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2022

cut back on healthcare due to costs in the first half of 2022, according to the latest poll on health care costs form Gallup and West Health , gauging Americans’ financial health in June 2022. had delayed care or prescription meds between January and June 2022. Nearly 100 million people in the U.S. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

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Insurance Medication 62

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.

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Insurance Care Plan Medication Patient Experience 127

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. ” One in 3 U.S.

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Insurance Billing Medication Patient Experience 77

Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Employers covering health insurance for workers’ families will face insurance premiums reaching, on average, $22,463. With that sticker-shock level of health plan costs, welcome to the 2022 Employer Health Benefits Survey from Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF’s annual study of employer-sponsored health care.

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Huddles/Rounds Insurance 62