Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). In 2017, healthcare made up 18.2% Who’s responsible?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Beyond the physical and emotional pain that people experience when they become a patient, in the U.S. 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.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. Most Americans want government to do more to help them, the OECD survey found. Given a $60K median U.S. VisitPay conducted a poll among 1,734 U.S.

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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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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. This third chart comes out of the book, built from data from the S tress in America survey annually conducted by the American Psychological Association. This new year is a U.S.

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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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