Health Populi
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years. visits per 100 member-years. ” The U.S.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health. The answer: embrace value-based care. Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Some of those obstacles are shown in the chart here, noting a shortage of the mental health workforce, affordability for accessing services along with limited insurance coverage, and a disconnect between primary care and the mental/behavioral health system. Sadly consistent with other aspects of the U.S.
Health Populi
APRIL 16, 2018
A decade later, can Walmart re-imagine primary care the way the company did low-cost medicines? Here’s a New York Times article from 2014 discussing the company’s vision for expanding primary care. Today, that low-cost generic Rx is ubiquitous in the retail pharmacy.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. In addition to sexual health, contraception and hair loss, the pandemic led you to forge into mental health and primary care. Both mental health and primary care services were always on our business road map.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 1, 2019
Addressing the access and affordability pillars, Sam’s Club launched a collaboration with Humana called Care Accelerator. This isn’t meant to be a fully-loaded insurance plan, but a product that “curates” selected medical services consumers want to access at relatively low-cost to care for basic health care needs.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 19, 2018
in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. That percentage of people who delay medical cost based on the expense has remained stable since 2006: between 29 and 31 percent of Americans have self-rationed care due to cost for over a decade.
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