Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Even before inflation began to heat up in late 2021, accelerating by spring 2022, consumer sentiment was falling, in fact, for eight straight months since last August 2021, CivicScience’s ongoing consumer research shows. emerged from the Great Recession of 2008. Yes, that Mark Cuban).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support. Additionally, rural patients often receive coverage from Medicare and Medicaid, limiting the providers they can access from an affordability standpoint.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

A just-breaking report from the CDC explores the demographics of patients between 18 and 64 years of age (that is, not children and not folks of Medicare-age) who avoid prescription drugs due to cost, in Characteristics of Adults Age 18-64 Who Did Not Take Medication as Prescribed to Reduce Costs: United States, 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board. billion raised in the first half of 2021 across 372 deals. “To Trevor Fetter, MBA, senior lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School and former longtime Tenet Healthcare chairman and CEO, named to Board. billion—down from $14.7

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 13, 2023

year drop in life expectancy in 2021 and the 1.8-year The more visits to a physician or hospital parallels greater demand for pharmaceuticals and devices/implants. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants, under the supervision of a physician, can bill Medicare at 85% of a physician’s fee with modest restrictions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

One-third of employers were already doing this in 2019, with another 20% adding in 2020 and 16% considering for 2021-22. Some 15% of companies will consider this tactic in 2021-22. 18% of large eployers offered rebates at POS in 2019, and 40% are considering incorporating this patient-Rx payment tactic in 2021-22.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

As we noted, this was due to such factors as higher-than-normal expenses for staff, supplies, and pharmaceuticals and lower revenues. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to focus federal resources and attention on reducing health disparities.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The year-on-year decline from 2021 find oil and gas at the lowest level of positivity, advertising/PR, legal, the Federal government, and pharma at the bottom of the ratings. Which sectors enhanced consumers’ favorable views between 2021 and 2022?

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

Between 2021 and 2025, the annual growth global growth rate for prescription drugs spending is expected to range from 3% to 6%, a $1.6 Going forward 2021 to 2025, shown here, we can expect oncology to grow by between 9% and 12% globally. trillion bill for the worlds’s total Rx medicines market.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). KFF’s 2021 Employee Health Benefits report , published in November, calculated that the cost for a health plan for a U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2021

Nearly one-half of the 3,600 new stores that will open in 2021 will be dollar stores, according to Coresight Research. At the same time, nearly 3,400 retail stores will close in 2021.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

The entire healthcare industry, including health systems, physicians, non-physician caregivers, device manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms, and medical insurers, is stressed because most are experiencing serious profit margin squeeze. RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK Preemptive reinvention is much wiser than responding to an attack.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

as well as purchasing pharmaceuticals. The exploding elderly population, in combination with a shrinking workforce to fund Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, will force our health system to ration care in new ways. Aging baby boomers with chronic medical conditions will continue to dominate healthcare demand as a cohort group.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 28, 2020

Despite several years of activism, debate, and protesting, the biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers of insulin — Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi — have still not lowered the list price of insulin. In March, the Trump Administration announced it was working to lower insulin prices for senior citizens on Medicare.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

At the very bottom of the list is the pharmaceutical industry, with net 60% of people feeling negative about pharma (28% somewhat negative + 32% feeling very negative). voters supporting Medicare negotiation with drug companies to lower prices of prescription medicines, this is one of a handful of national issues facing U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

in this moment, here’s a huge consensus for Americans on a single issue in 2021. The survey was fielded in June 2021 among 1,071 U.S. There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. voters across political party: that is the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs. Given our political chasms in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2021

cannot afford to pay for quality health care — an especially acute challenge for Black and Hispanic Americans, according to a West Health-Gallup poll conducted in March 2021, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Lowering Medicare age to 60 also garners most Democrats’ and Independents’ support, and 42% of Republicans.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2021

But across all priorities, it turns out that prescription drug costs rank higher in Americans’ minds than any other issue in the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll for June 2021. Two-thirds of U.S. residents were able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine was a “top priority.” On the cost-front, 90% of U.S.

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