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The Unbearable Heaviness of Inflation: Will Consumers’ Financial Stress Erode Their Health?

Health Populi

An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders. In my data wonkiness, inflation certainly played a starring role in setting the stage for Mind, Body and Wallet — the title of one of the sources of my plotline.

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The New Financial Toxicity in Health Care: The Cost of Hospitalization

Health Populi

The data points come from one-half million people who were hospitalized in California between 2002 and 2011 and tracked in credit reports which included information on whether and when the patients filed for bankruptcy. Uninsured working age people bear an even bigger burden of unpaid medical bills and bankruptcy risk.

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Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

Health Populi

in July 2021, the lowest read since December 2011. adults worry about unexpected medical bills, and another 2 in 3 are afraid they won’t be able to afford health care in 2021. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index fell to 70.2 Two-thirds of U.S.

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

Opioid-related deaths grew some 20% since 2011 in the U.S. Increasing rates of obesity and diabetes are countering the positive impacts countries have made in stemming heart disease and stroke across the OECD but particularly in the U.S. and are impacting mortality rates in Canada, Estonia and Sweden, too. Now to Dickens’ lens over U.S.

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Can Healthcare Optimize Its Human Resources and Redefine Care Delivery in the Process?

Healthcare IT Today

U se additional data from insurers’ medical bills to identify treatment gaps, manage costs, and meet quality performance targets. Ashish previously served as CTO at Medicity, the market leader for vendor-neutral Health Information Exchange solutions (acquired by Aetna in 2011).

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Weekender 5/18/18

HIStalk Weekender

His practices are in and near McAllen, Texas, the subject of a 2009 article by Atul Gawande in which Gawande noted that the tiny, poor town had the highest medical costs in the US other than Miami, which Texas locals attributed to everything from malpractice costs to overuse to fraud.

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