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.

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Medical Billing Mental health Patient Experience 227

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

As we start the month of April 2024 in the U.S., This is also the time my research clock alarm goes off for an important annual report that describes the latest profile of the patient-as-payer in the U.S. That garners only 5% of patients’ preferences. ‘Tis the season for J.P. Mailing a paper check?

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., 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.

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Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medical Billing 193

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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Mental health Medical Billing Patient Experience 182

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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