Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

feel their well-being or healing was negatively impacted by difficulty paying for their medical care. Welcome to the convergence of patients’ health care life with financial and retail lives, we learn from the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar. One in two consumers in the U.S. Cedar polled 1,239 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

As we start the month of April 2024 in the U.S., That’s twice as many patients who would prefer to pay their health care bills on doctor’s or provider’s websites versus online through their health plan’s website (19%). ‘Tis the season for J.P. Mailing a paper check?

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., While the 118 th U.S.

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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.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: According to the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar, 58% of U.S. consumers said paying a health care bill was stressful. ’| the CFO of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, Vincent Tammaro, was quoted in the Cedar report.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Explaining Medical Bills. An AI-powered chatbot will be available in the future through Epic’s Hello World platform that will help explain complex medical bills to patients. Early response has been positive with some patients commenting how the generated responses are more empathetic than prior communications.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Partnerships California HHS designated nine Qualified Health Information Organizations to facilitate information exchange in the state starting in 2024. WebMD Ignite and Freshpaint are partnering to incorporate patient privacy into healthcare marketing services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

That’s the title of a new report that captures the results of a survey conducted in January 2024 among 1,516 employed Americans who received employer-sponsored health insurance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

Originally announced February 29th, 2024

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. In particular, 21% of consumers with medical debt say the primary source of that debt was due to the bills from doctor visits. For example, the chart tells us that Walmart welcomes 37 million U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

The deal only appears to involve the trade show – next slated for March 11-15, 2024 in Orlando – and makes no mention of smaller HIMSS events (in-person or online) or the Healthcare IT News or MobiHealthNews publications that HIMSS Media owns. News HIMSS is planning to sell its annual conference to Informa.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

According to Krisi Hutson, Senior Director of Solutions at Availity , AI can help administrative staff from the front desk to the billing office negotiate the maze.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2024

The reports cover research from the McKinsey Health Institute collaborating with the World Economic Forum on Closing the Women’s Health Gap ; and, from AARP in their paper titled, 2024 She’s the Difference – The Wildcard of the 2024 Election. Health Populi’s Hot Points: More tightly focusing on the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In fact, POLITICO is already helping inform us for our forecast for 2024, anticipating that Roe will help define the 2024 Presidential race. A New York Times column was written in the summer of 2022 noting that, “In a post-Roe world, personal privacy is even more in doubt.”.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Economy Inflation, a top-of-mind stress and concern for mainstream Americans in 2023, is easing as we enter 2024. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. entering 2024, many consumers will be self-rationing care due to costs. Consumer in the Big/Macro U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household budgets must make room for paying medical bills — with prescription drug costs also very important as a discussion topic for 2024 Presidential candidates, we learn from the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll published 1 December.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2024

The University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging engaged NORC at the University of Chicago to field the study in February and March 2024, conducted among 3,379 U.S. adults between 50 and 101 years of age. The study was conducted online and by phone.

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