Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But consider the statistic that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of 65,500 physicians expected in 2020, and 90,400 in 2025. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. This is sobering through just the N=1 physician lens.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The response was led by Dr Claire Fuller, Primary Care Medical Director of NHS England, who said: So if you think about Practice Managers, every day [they] will get a phone call from a patient that says, If I die today, itll be your fault. The IGPM worked with Practice Index to survey 500 practices about the financial impact of the changes.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Running a successful medical practice requires more than providing excellent patient care. Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. Five essential reports every medical practice should run 1. At Health Prime, we can help!

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Being so close to the New Year, it is of high importance that your medical practice finishes its medical billing in good time. This will go a long way toward your medical practice’s financial health and operational efficiency. Here are three essential tasks to help you wrap up your medical billing for the New Year: 1.

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Practice Index

JANUARY 2, 2025

pay rise for GPs in 2025/26. The next GP contract: promises and uncertainty When it comes to funding, the Government sneaked in, just before the festive period, early details of the next GP contract for 2025/26. Before Christmas, the Government announced its proposal for a 2.8%

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Running a successful medical practice requires more than providing excellent patient care. Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. Five essential reports every medical practice should run 1. At Health Prime, we can help!

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The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A friend of mine who wants to stay anonymous (for now at any rate) had a crazy waste of time proving that he was eligibile for a medication on his plan. I thought his story might trigger a few of you!

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Amber Pharmacy

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It’s important to know about big changes coming to Medicare Part D in 2025 that can help you manage your prescription costs more easily. Here’s what will be different: $2,000 Out-of-Pocket Limit: In 2025, you won’t have to pay more than $2,000 for your medications in a year. This means more predictable costs throughout the year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Another way to reduce costs of administration in health care operations is to move from paper to electronic formats — long overdue in the eyes of patients who are increasingly dealing with medical bill paying as payers for out-of-pocket expenses. Banks experience. The chart here illustrates U.S. AI can help here, too.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

.” The second chart, pictured here from the report, tells us that most health consumers are aware that pharmacists can provide immunizations (79%), give tips for saving prescription drug costs (72%), counsel on therapeutic alternatives (69%), and educate on medical conditions (65%).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

health consumers is with the health care system industry segments like hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — as patients differentiate between the “system” and the “people” working in it. Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S.

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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. 1] Substance Abuse Mental Health Servs. 2020), [link]. [2]

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This has happened across many stakeholders in the evolving health/care ecosystem of suppliers, including hospital systems, health plans, grocery chains, retail pharmacy, consumer technology, digital health and tech-enabled providers, pharma and medical supply companies. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.”

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 22, 2024

While there are many available NP career choices, the family nurse practitioner (FNP) is a trendy option among nurses seeking to become primary care providers with the authority to diagnose illnesses, order diagnostic tests, prescribe medications, and manage the care of patients across the lifespan.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Key Takeaways A need to control substance usage and reduce medication errors is driving the e-prescribing market growth during the 2023-2030 timeframe. Online medication orders, refills, and reminders help such patients to keep a track of their health care. Around 75 percent of medication errors have occurred due to distraction.

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Relias

JUNE 28, 2023

Integrated care is a best practice model that combines evidence-based medical and behavioral healthcare services at one point of entry. The main purpose is to effectively address and treat co-occurring and chronic mental health, substance use, and medical disorders. This model of care takes place in a variety of settings and locations.

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Valant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Biden administration announced a finalized Mental Health Parity Rule on September 9, 2024, bringing significant changes to how insurers cover mental health care. Most provisions of the rule will take effect on January 1, 2025, with some to be phased in by 2026.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners. Drive population health.

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 14, 2024

There is no such thing as a profitable public digital health company in the mainstream of care delivery or even insurance–unless of course you count Optum. It says it’ll be profitable in 2025, and has Elevance as its biggest client. Which means there’s almost certainly no profitable VC-backed private company either.

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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

A McKinsey & Company survey shows that up to $265 billion worth of care services could shift from traditional healthcare facilities to the home by 2025. According to a study conducted by Coverys, a Boston-based insurance company, less than 20% of Medicare spending is value-based. Home-based care is growing.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can turn now to the Global Wellness Institute’s latest forecast on the world market for wellness, which GWI expects will hit a $7 trillion market in 2025. These sources are more likely to be search engines than insurance sites, hospital sites, or pharma sites.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

.” In this Health Populi post, I’m weaving together three just-published studies that together fill in a profile of the current state of health consumers in America — in particular, working-insured health citizens. We’ll focus on people who are working and covered with health insurance through an employer.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Nvidia could be a $5 trillion company in 2025, as could Amazon. The fastest-growth spending by payer was for private health insurance, increasing by 11.5% In addition, CMS also noted an increase in private health insurance spending as well as Medicare due to the rough flu season in 2023. trillion in 2023. the previous year.

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Practice Index

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

James Gransby, Vice Chairman of the Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants , analyses the financial impact of last month’s Budget on general practice and says an update from the government on how these additional costs might be reimbursed can’t come soon enough. Big changes in payroll costs are on their way.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2025

CES 2025: as you read the acronym and year, your brain registered an image like consumer technology and the start of a new year, or some variation of those thoughts. Quite separate from the Digital Health track of CES 2025, there’s a food-tech content track sponsored by The Spoon.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

I’ll review these studies in this post, and discuss several potential impacts we should keep in mind for peoples’ health and care in 2025 and beyond. Start with the Ipsos Consumer Tracker for February 2025, which identified a rise in U.S. consumers feel most costs of living are up in the first quarter of 2025.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

I generated four scenarios on health care consumers in 2030; the four alternative futures looked like this: As we enter 2025, my view for the next 1-3 years is that people in America feel like they live in the lower left matrix: where fragmentation meets bureaucracy, as health care castaways. Why The Rough Guide reference?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

How will we know if the life sciences sector is advancing in 2025? This is the question asked at the start of the report, a Research Brief: 2025 Indicators of Progress for the Life Sciences Sector, from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science (IQVIA). at the concluding minutes of the HELP meeting on 30th January.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2025

By MICHAEL MILLENSON January In a blistering commentary, the American Medical Associations flagship journal, JAMA , condemns the corrosive effect on patient care of the profit-seeking practices of health insurers. The editor of JAMA resigns after ChatGPT writes an editorial extolling the merits of MA plans run by for-profit companies.

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The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

Trump is committed to reauthorizing the individual tax cuts from his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which are scheduled to expire in 2025, which would add $3.3 Medicare plus Medicaid) population), as well as cost sharing and an voucher option to purchase private insurance (!?) trillion to the deficit over the next ten years. That was it!

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Kaiser Family Foundation has hit the 2025 health policy ground running in publishing the January 2025 Health Tracking Poll last week and a poll on health care trust and mis-information yesterday. As of the second week of January 2025, the top priorities for health care among U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

elections, on probably policy and market impacts that we can expect in 2025 and beyond. insured consumers’ perspectives on prescription drug pricing and the role of PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers). 9 in 10 insured Americans felt that prescriptions are more expensive in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.

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