Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

What do people want from digital transformation for their health care experiences? Health Populi’s Hot Points : As Experian puts the situation and experience-gap, “the cost conversation continues.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics].

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. No one should lose their livelihood, their home, their life because they can’t afford or understand the prices of their medical treatment. You can follow #PowerToThePatients on Instagram and @PowertoPatnts on Twitter.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

.” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. The first chart here shows that one in four U.S.

Mental health 175

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The relaxation of state and federal regulations during the public health emergency also played a role in allowing providers to adopt these virtual practices more easily. Fifty-nine percent of medical group practices said they shifted workers to permanent and/or hybrid work in 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Now that hygiene protocols are well-established in health care providers’ settings, at least two other major consumer barriers to seeking care must be addressed: cost and access. One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type.

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