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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

This digital transformation speaks to the importance of paying for health care regardless of whether services happen between patient and provider face-to-face in real-time, via video calls on-screens, or during an audio-only telehealth visit (a clinical phone call). Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.”

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

Entering 2023, U.S. health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops.

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The Financial Toxicity of Health Care Costs: From Cancer to FICO Scores

Health Populi

The agencies will also extend the time period before unpaid medical collection debt appears on credit reports from six months to one year, allowing consumers in medical debt to work with health care providers and plans to deal with debt before it is reported. Work with Federal partners to reduce coercive credit reporting, and.

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Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Health Populi

voters’ minds among many issues Americans are feeling and following in late 2023. voters’ top issues and perspectives on the health system and care approaching the new year of 2024. adults between October 31 and November 7, 2023, via online and phone. The cost of living ranks top in U.S.