Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

98% of Americans rank paying their medical bills is an important pain point in their patient journey, according to Embracing consumerism: Driving customer engagement in the healthcare financial journey , from Experian Health. Experian surveyed 1,000 consumers in September 2017 for this study.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S. politics both at the Federal and State levels. Indeed, it seems that in the eyes of health consumers, “It’s the deductible, stupid.”.

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ACA Times

MARCH 22, 2017

The study comparatively breaks down 2015-2017 with the opinions of Americans being somewhat consistently on the decline. In 2017, 58% of Americans find it easy to pay for monthly health insurance, and the percentage who find it difficult has jumped to 37%. That number in 2017 is at 31%. Other numbers keep jumping up as well.

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Medical Billing 40

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

And it is fair to say that the applications of it are making its way into the world of older adults, this AARP article describes its uses for older adults in generating a letter to contest a medical bill. Data returned was from 2017, with an apology that nothing more recent was available.

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Medical Billing 69

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This coverage line item is fast-growing, from the 27% low mark in 2015 of large companies covering telemedicine to 63% in 2017 and 74% in 2018. Three in four large firms covers telemedicine in 2018, KFF found.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

As of November 15, 2017, ASCs are being surveyed on the new requirements of a September 2016 final rule. ASC billing teams are informed and compliant. About Isaac Smith Isaac is a highly accomplished healthcare professional with over 13 years of experience in healthcare administration, medical billing and coding, and compliance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

What does my doctor bill mean?” addresses medical bill literacy – the explanation of benefits wonkiness, the coinsurance and copayment concerns, and, simply put, what did the health insurance company cover? The consumer research was part of Accenture’s 2017 Customer Experience Payer Benchmark Survey of 10,000 U.S.

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Medical Billing Patient Experience 54

Insulin Nation

APRIL 11, 2017

Holly Murphy slipped into a coma from hypoglycemia while she was alone in her Tuscon home on February 10th, 2017. As with so many many crises involving Type 1 diabetes, her medical emergency came about because of a mixture of circumstances and bad luck, according to her husband, Jim. It’s been very hectic, very nightmarish,” he said.

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Medical Billing 61

Insulin Nation

APRIL 11, 2017

Holly Murphy slipped into a coma from hypoglycemia while she was alone in her Tuscon home on February 10th, 2017. As with so many many crises involving Type 1 diabetes, her medical emergency came about because of a mixture of circumstances and bad luck, according to her husband, Jim. It’s been very hectic, very nightmarish,” he said.

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Medical Billing 40

ACA Times

MARCH 24, 2015

A 10-state study found that the Medicaid expansion was financially advantageous in each of the states, while states that chose not to expand their programs will forego $88 billion in federal funding from 2014-2016, and will reduce their economic output by approximately $66 billion through 2017.

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Medical Billing 40

Insulin Nation

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In February of 2017, an Arizona woman was found unresponsive in her bathroom, where she had inhaled her own vomit after falling unconscious. It’s no surprise that the Murphy family is severely struggling to make ends meet, as medical bills pile up with only one person earning income.

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 13, 2015

Southerland does say that the team has to spend less than the average team on rider salaries, but more for medical bills and development. Luckily, it appears that the team will continue to get support from Novo Nordisk – the drug maker announced it has renewed its contract with the team until the end of 2017.

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Medical Billing 108

Insulin Nation

MARCH 30, 2018

I am able to divert enough money from my paycheck to our health savings account to cover our medical bills, and that amount doesn’t leave us struggling with our other expenses. A 2017 report from the CDC showed the number to be closer to 40% of workers. But many families don’t have the resources we have.

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Medical Billing 48

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 29, 2019

In mid-2017, it was reported that the online retail giant had set up a secretive lab to explore tech-driven healthcare disruption called Amazon 1492, presumably named after the year Columbus first arrived in the Americas as a signal of its paradigm-shifting ambitions. Amazon consistently refuses to discuss its healthcare plans.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The topline of this study is that average annual growth in employer premiums rose faster between 2016 and 2017, by about 5% for both single and family plans. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% Health care stress is a mainstream featured in Americans’ collective psyche approaching the 2020 election.

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ACA Times

AUGUST 27, 2018

It meant that some employees skipped preventive medical care, resulting in a less healthy, productive workforce. million Americans went bankrupt in 2013 because of medical bills they were unable to pay. As of November 2017, employers started being penalized by the IRS for failing to comply with the ACA’s Employer Mandate.

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Medical Billing 40

GlobalMed

OCTOBER 7, 2019

at least, we now expect that extensive medical treatment – whether that’s chemotherapy, ongoing dialysis visits or surgery to repair a broken femur – may involve significant medical bills. Hospital stays, outpatient visits, tests and medications can all add up, even when patients have health insurance. In the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S. also say that income inequality and inadequate social services significantly contribute to high medical spending for every health citizen in the nation. This year’s poll was conducted in September 2019 and included input from 2,001 U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award. As a 73-bed acute care hospital, Bailey Medical Center was recognized with Ardent Healthcare’s Ardent Cup as an outstanding facility in four times from 2012 to 2017, and it earned a five-star CMS rating in 2017.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 20, 2018

As of December 2017, there are 5,042 designated mental health shortage areas across the United States, leaving over 120 million people without access to proper mental health services. Understanding Telehealth Billing. Telehealth billing and reimbursement, much like all medical billing, is a confusing topic.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 20, 2018

As of December 2017, there are 5,042 designated mental health shortage areas across the United States, leaving over 120 million people without access to proper mental health services. Understanding Telehealth Billing. Telehealth billing and reimbursement, much like all medical billing, is a confusing topic.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Peoples’ highest ratings of industry in American occurred in 2017 when nearly 50% of people gave business a very or somewhat positive grade. And, as long as patients are medical bill payers, ensure that value-based care is designed and delivered based on peoples’ personal sets of values and sense of value.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

families could not afford to pay $1,000 for an emergency medical bill in one study; in another, that inability to pay is as low as a $400 emergency to cover. in March 2018 — roughly the rate of growth of healthcare spending for a family of four between 2017 and 2018, as the Milliman Medical Index noted.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

APRIL 24, 2018

These decreases in enrollment are driven by both the elimination of the individual mandate penalty as part of the December 2017 tax cut legislation and the recently proposed rules by the U.S. Thus, Wakely estimates enrollment levels for 2019 to be between 396,000 and 791,000 fewer enrollees.

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Medical Billing 53

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

“Healthcare providers must follow suit to meet value expectations and deliver more consumer-friendly services or may risk losing market share to innovative new healthcare arrangements, such as direct primary care, which offer convenient and quality care with simplified medical billing,” Dexter says.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

The Commonwealth Fund’s Issue Brief published October 2017 asks, “How Well Does Insurance Coverage Protect Consumers from Health Care Costs?” Half of under-insured adults had problems with medical bills or debt, and 2 in 5 said they did not get needed healthcare due to cost. ” The answer: not well.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Springsteen’s lyrics preach it like a patient facing healthcare sticker shock, an out-of-control medical bill caused by out-of-network or costs-without-insurance: The times are tough now, just getting tougher. This whole world is rough, it’s just getting rougher. Cover me, come on baby, cover me.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Most say, “no,” a proportion falling from the high of 47% “yes” in 2017 to 40% this year. Note that over one-half of people who were ill had serious problems paying at least one type of medical bill, from hospitals and prescription drugs to the doctor’s office and ambulance services.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

by the fourth quarter of 2017, up 1.3 2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. I’m just the messenger – this was the Gallup poll’s finding from December 2017.

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