Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

hospitals and why I’ve titled this post, “outpatient is the new inpatient,” a future paradigm for U.S. This realization is informed by data in a new report from Deloitte, Where have the many hospital inpatient gone? Our ability to create that network outside the hospital is huge.”

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 14, 2024

Hospitals with larger market shares were among the worst offenders, the RAND Corporation found.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. One in two people in the U.S. One-half of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 13, 2024

That is the non-profit hospital/health system sector. Having said that, most hospitals are frequently late in filing them, and file them in a very confusing way. Carolina hospital systems and found out that Atrium’s CEO pay went up nearly five-fold over six years. When I asked ChatGPT it estimated about 1.2

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 13, 2024

The bureaucracy and opacity of hospital and insurance billing is impossible to navigate. But it doesn't have to be.

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 24, 2024

Medicare Advantage is accounting for “a rising share of inpatient hospital days,” according to a new KFF study shows.

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Scrubs

JUNE 16, 2023

They were just coming out of a weeks-long surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, fueled by the delta variant. a Friday, the hospital CEO’s phone rang with an urgent call. “My The hackers left a ransom note on every server, demanding the hospital pay $3 million in bitcoin within a few days. But on Oct. 1 at 3 a.m.,

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2020

health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. leading to growing un- and under-insured people).

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Coronis Health

MARCH 13, 2024

The agency has been in constant communication with Change Healthcare and its parent company, UnitedHealth Group, since the company revealed the details of the attack and its attendant disruptions in downline processes, including interruptions in the payment of medical claims by multiple insurance plans and programs.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 19, 2023

Hospitals serving more patients at risk for complications during childbirth are less likely to have enough nurses to care for patients during labor, delivery, and recovery, according to a new study in Nursing Outlook. for the most vulnerable childbearing populations, including Black mothers and those insured by Medicaid.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years.

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Scrubs

JULY 22, 2023

Pay for personal liability insurance. Protect your assets and your license by having personal liability insurance separate from anything offered to you through your employer. You need separate insurance because it is possible that your employer could sue you, and in that case, their liability insurance would probably not cover you.

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The HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The data involved varied from individual to individual and may have included names, dates of birth, passport numbers, financial account numbers, payment card numbers, online credentials, taxpayer identification numbers, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, health insurance information, and medical information.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP). FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters).

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

Health insurance plans make mainstream media news every week, whether coverage deals with the cost of a plan, the cost of out-of-network care, prior authorizations, or cybersecurity and ransomware attacks, among other front-page issues. Embracing workforce well-being — in and outside of health care.

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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

JUNE 5, 2020

Three physicians from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, part of Harvard Medical School, cite three pillars that underpin digital health inequity in America: Technology access barriers, Digital health literacy, and. Lack of inclusive design.

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Scrubs

JULY 23, 2023

They feel their anxiety is “terrible for working in a hospital where people try to die on me all the f**king time.” Switching Careers If you’re no longer in love with nursing, here’s what ex-nurses had to say: I used to work for one of the huge health insurance companies in my state. They’re not alone.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022.

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KevinMD.com

MAY 17, 2024

Since January 1, 2023, the Transparency in Coverage Rule required health insurance providers and health insurers to provide price information to participants in a publicly accessible place.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S. health care system.

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Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

Nurses in these settings play a pivotal role in providing medical care and guiding patients through the complexities of the healthcare system without insurance. Nurses can be crucial navigators by providing information on hospital financial assistance programs and flexible payment plans.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

AUGUST 21, 2024

healthcare, an industry that frequently relies on noncompetes to lock medical workers into employment agreements with hospitals, insurers and other employers. Obviating the ban has big implications for U.S.

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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). We must shift our True North mantra for improving health care in the U.S.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

AUGUST 7, 2024

Insurers cited workforce shortages, hospital consolidation and growing demand for pricey GLP-1 drugs as reasons driving the premium increases for 2025.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Compounding Americans personal finances is the COVID-19 era is the fact that the nation lacks universal health insurance coverage. Stephen Shortell, Professor of Health Policy and Dean Emeritus of the Berkeley School of Public Health concurs with Anderson about America’s insurance gaps as a risk factor for the spread of coronavirus.

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EvidenceCare

JANUARY 12, 2024

Social Admission vs. Medical Necessity In healthcare, the term “social admission” signifies instances where patients find themselves admitted to a hospital primarily for non-medical reasons. Hospitals should develop a plan for care beyond their walls, but few invest in skilled nursing facilities.

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. 10 – or 4 in 10 ranking as “poor.” health system. health system.

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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 percent and 36.1

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The HIPAA Journal

JULY 3, 2024

has confirmed that patient data has been compromised in a cyberattack, and the Monti ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Wayne Memorial Hospital. The hospital has yet to announce any cyberattack or data breach.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The purpose of universal prophylaxis is to reduce RSV-associated hospitalizations. For RSV-associated lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) hospitalizations, three studies found a significant effect and two found a null effect. The secondary endpoint of hospitalization for RSV-associated LRTI occurred in 0.6%

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

medical system with access to quality healthcare and insurance, yet Vivian went undiagnosed by doctors. Many organizations bulk at the idea of oversight, but at this point, given the sheer amount of harm that continues to happen at hospitals across this country, even at distinguished institutions. I am a doctor in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Addressing administrative flows both inside and outside health care organizations can save money; take the lack of interoperability between claims systems between payers and hospitals and other aspects of lack of standardization and fragmented data systems. This represents a $210 billion savings opportunity, shown in the McKinsey model.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Having health insurance in the U.S. See the third chart, where KFF/Peterson Center looked at the consumer’s insurance status, state of medical debt and health care service impact — in Health Populi lingo we use the phrase, “self-rationing behavior due to cost.”

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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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