Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
People dealing with chronic conditions are keener to share personally-generated data than people that don’t have a chronic disease, Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of U.S> Specifically, 50% of health consumers search to see their providers are in-network, to avoid surprise medical bills. 39% check reputations.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins.
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Health Populi
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.
Health Populi
JANUARY 18, 2019
in fact devotes fewer hospital beds, physicians and nurses to health care delivery compared with other countries. Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine in December 2018 found that as out-of-pocket costs for insulin have increased over the past few years, many patients use less insulin than needed. On the supply side, the U.S.
Lloyd Price
JUNE 8, 2019
Private equity and venture capital firms are in love with a legion of companies and startups touting the benefits of virtual doctors’ visits and telemedicine to revolutionize health care, investing almost $10 billion in 2018, a record for the sector. It was for a five-minute phone call answering a question about a possible infection.
HIStalk Weekender
MAY 18, 2018
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. Monday Morning Update 5/14/18. Get Involved.
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