Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

People are also the payor when dealing with paying greater co-payments for prescription drugs, especially as new therapeutic innovations come out of pipelines into commercial markets bearing six-digit prices for oncology and other categories. Few people want to pay in person or by phone.

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Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy 279

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

“Employer health spending has grown from 6 percent of total wages in 1988 to more than 12 percent in 2018,” driven by healthcare prices growing faster than the general economy, and the adoption of new technologies, procedures, and increasingly expensive new prescription drugs, PwC observes. economy by 2026.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

increase 241% from 2017 to 2021. In addition to providing doctors with relief from unnecessary administrative burden, patients are looking to DPC for higher quality healthcare with a transparent price tag. The broken system is accelerating the growth of DPC, which saw membership across the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

” All 50 state Medicaid agencies have adopted some coverage for telehealth, with 10 states not advancing coverage since 2017. There’s a move among state Medicaid programs to migrate from traditional hub-and-spoke models of care, with 29 states not specifying a specific patient setting for payment.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Primary Care 203

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Digital health has the potential to radically change the way people approach their wellness and, since launching in 2017, we’ve outpaced even our own expectations, delivering more than 1 million Hims & Hers products to our customers. ” That’s a verbatim paragraph from a blog on the Hims & Hers’ Medium channel.

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Primary Care Digital Health Telehealth Mental health 149

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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Life Science Pharmaceuticals Mental health Telehealth 207

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The lure: big hairy problems The tech giants see a system rife with administrative inefficiencies, opaque prices, and customer dissatisfaction. Health care is incredibly backward in its use of information and consumer technologies and there are ample opportunities to improve patient care while reducing cost.

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Life Science Primary Care Interoperability EHR 60

Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Expect insurers to accelerate programs and policies that cut costs and to push for value-based contracting as consumers demand more transparency in healthcare pricing. However, Abrams said the payer’s message was that medical necessity is the stronger consideration and that unit pricing needs to reflect broader market pricing.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had united, Voltron-style, to fight for lower healthcare costs and forge “a better patient experience” for their combined 1.2 For the most part, we’re still waiting.

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Nursing Leadership Life Science Patient Experience 40

Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

According to the 2020 CAQH index , PA is the single largest expense for the healthcare industry with a total price tag estimated at about $767 million annually. A 2017 Government Accountability Report estimated that PA saved CMS nearly $2 billion between 2012 and 2017 on a series of demonstration projects in just 7 states.

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Interoperability EHR Patient Experience 59

Exponential_e

MARCH 13, 2018

When N3 contracts expired in March 2017, NHS Digital was faced with the challenge of replacing it. Reduced costs: Cost-savings and flexible pricing from HSCN suppliers enables healthcare organisations to reduce capital expenditure and increase financial sustainability.

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Patient Experience 52

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. economy for some sectors — and inflation hitting household budgets for basic needs like food, energy costs, and petrol (with gas at the pump prices having fallen).

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

Hospitals can chose to sell the prescriptions to patients and their insurers for much more than the discounted price. Originally the legislation was designed for resource-challenged communities, but now some hospitals in these programs are profiting from wealthy folks paying normal prices and the hospitals keeping the difference. [8]

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

But the specialty drug pipeline is rich with new-new products like gene therapies and combination products whose prices may dampen efforts to reduce spending, Milliman points out. 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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. During the hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) challenged Azar, “As a pharmaceutical executive, you raised drug prices year after year. healthcare.

Medicare 147

Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 147

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes. Some ways to do this are to offer better patient portals, expanded hours, improved access, and clear procedure pricing.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience HIPAA 41

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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