Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

.” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. The first chart here shows that one in four U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

On a widespread basis, doctors and nurses are being gagged and muzzled by administrators for expressing their concerns, and penalized or even fired when they do speak out… The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will go down as the worst public health disaster in the history of the country.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. No one should lose their livelihood, their home, their life because they can’t afford or understand the prices of their medical treatment.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The report’s insights are based on surveys FMI has conducted over the past two years, as the Foundation has observed that consumers broadening their definition of health to include emotional health, energy levels, and sleep quality. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

Consumers are concerned about their ability-to-pay for all kinds of bills, shown in the bar chart. Most concerning are credit cards, utilities, auto loans, insurance, and mobile phone bills, with mortgage and rent and medical bills (which are worrisome for 1 in 4 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

Having health insurance in America is no guarantee of actually receiving health care. It’s a case of having health insurance as “necessary but not sufficient,” as the cost of deductibles, out-of-pocket coinsurance sharing, and delaying care paint the picture of The Hidden Lives of Workplace-Insured Americans.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 15, 2023

Medicaid also covers certain groups of people automatically, such as those receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and some individuals who have high medical bills. This coverage includes access to specialists, medical equipment, and therapies like speech and physical therapy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

On the medical spending front, Bankrate’s survey noted that 1 in 3 Americans did not seek healthcare in the past year due to costs. Without assurance that these medical bills would be paid, there are people in the U.S.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 21, 2019

The poll — which covers rural Americans’ personal experiences with health, social, civic and economic issues where they live — is based on a survey conducted for NPR , the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The survey was conducted Jan. Eight findings: 1.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2020

The reasons people would make early withdrawals from their retirement funds include dealing with an unexpected expense (for at least one-half of workers across all generations); and, paying medical bills, for roughly one-in-five workers cross age, among other financial obligations.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices. Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction. A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

Deborah Brown, who is Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer for Health in the New York City Office of the Deputy Mayor, discussed her challenging role in helping drive design thinking in public health for all New Yorkers – especially the most vulnerable citizens.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

We’re facing first-dollar health care costs in high-deductible health plans, some of us worried about paying for medical bills related to getting tested and treated for the coronavirus. Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 29, 2019

Why Amazon is moving into health Few doubt new digital technologies have roles to play in the huge challenges healthcare systems are facing. The incentives of companies like Amazon are to increase market share, share prices and profits, which puts them at odds with the underlying goals of a public health system like the NHS.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. healthcare system. People may be sick of being sick nationally and globally.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2024

There’s a gender-health gap that hits women particularly hard when she is of working age — negatively impacting her own physical and financial health, along with that of the community and nation in which she lives.

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The relaxation of state and federal regulations during the public health emergency also played a role in allowing providers to adopt these virtual practices more easily. Mend starts by integrating with your organization’s medical billing software. As a result, the adoption of telehealth skyrocketed.

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Mend

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A recent report on healthcare workplace shortages by the Minnesota Department of Public Health offers a physician’s perspective. Mend integrates with your organization’s medical billing software in order to automate patient payments. A Provider’s Perspective. Here’s how we do it at Mend: Schedule a Demo.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We are also grateful that Congress included Medicare coverage for telemental health services, just one of the many clinical specialties that benefitted from telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency," said Johnson. ON THE RECORD.

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eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Another quality HIMSS publication that focuses on the financial implications of healthcare like reimbursement, revenue-cycle management, strategic planning and more. Medical Billing & Coding Blog. This blog is all about medical billing and coding. Public Health Matters Blog.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 17, 2020

A patient can do everything right and still face substantial surprise medical bills. In his recent Oval Office speech, President Trump pledged that Americans won’t receive surprise bills for their coronavirus testing. Unless swift action is taken, surprise bills are coming. But it was an empty promise.

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Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

” The U.S. is the only country in the world facing the COVID-19 pandemic where the patient is that payor.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). The Indiana Public Health Association recognized Eskenazi Health for its workplace culture in the Public Health is Good Business category, which complements the American Heart Association’s platinum-level fit-friendly worksite honor also bestowed on the health system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

health care micro-economy and how health costs will crowd out other household spending in 2024 Consumers’ financial health blurs (or sometimes bleeds) into their personae as patients: CivicScience has tracked a direct relationship between peoples’ perceptions of financial health and one’s overall well-being.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One-half of people age 18 to 64 have received a surprise medical bill they thought would be covered by insurance, and one-third say that the ability to pay for care they need is the most pressing issue in American healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The vast majority of the most seriously ill patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. Jeanne founded ClearHealthCosts nearly ten years ago, having worked as a journalist with the New York Times and other media.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. 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.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

See the second chart, reported in a recent study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Being Seriously Ill in the U.S. . 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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household budgets must make room for paying medical bills — with prescription drug costs also very important as a discussion topic for 2024 Presidential candidates, we learn from the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll published 1 December.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. One of the basic questions in studies like these is whether a consumer could cover a $500 medical bill with their current savings. Underneath that general number, more white adults than non-white consumers could cover the $500 bill from traditional checking or savings.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 1971, Céline published his book, Death on the Installment Plan ; one wonders what Louis-Ferdinand would have thought about this medical billing model. I wish you all a joyous and blessed holiday season, and healthy, peaceful and inspired 2020…with clear vision, loving hearts, and plenty of laughter-for-health.

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