Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

As Weight Watchers prepares to initiate bankruptcy proceedings, I file the news event under “thinking the unthinkable.” ” “Thinking about the unthinkable” is what Herman Kahn, a father of scenario planning, asked us to do when he pioneered the process.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

They write, Patients are more engaged in their health than ever beforewith a growing awareness of the impact of lifestyle choices on overall well-being, individuals are taking proactive steps to manage their health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

Specific to consumers home health care economics, we learn from Gallup and West Health that Americans borrowed about $74 billion to pay medical bills in 2024. consumers who borrowed money to pay for health care in the past year. That’s about 30 million U.S. FICO scores). FICO scores).

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2025

I’ve frequently discussed the phenomenon of health consumers self-rationing care due to dollar-cost and medical bill management in the context of household budgets, In this research, we see the “time cost” constraint as another factor contributing to peoples’ self-rationing health care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Prioritizing the digital health experience, with financial health baked into the front-end and not just the back-end bill payment and ex post facto EOB from the health plan will help reverse this era of eroding trust between patient and hospital.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. 50% want clearer, easier-to-understand medical bills.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

health care system. As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

This is particularly true for health care in America, where workers have traded off wages for health care coverage for over a decade. Concerns about coverage for pre-existing conditions, the cost of medicines, and avoiding surprise medical bills are top-of-mind for Americans in this politically-charged year in the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A plurality of other nations’ health citizens would be keen to access these tools — especially, to evaluating quality and satisfaction rankings. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This is key for serving patients’ — now health care payors’ — need for primary care, mental health bundled into that on-ramp visit, and prevention to stay the heck out of the more expensive inpatient setting that has been the core business of The Hospital.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Another way to reduce costs of administration in health care operations is to move from paper to electronic formats — long overdue in the eyes of patients who are increasingly dealing with medical bill paying as payers for out-of-pocket expenses. AI can help here, too.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

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%). Mailing a paper check? That garners only 5% of patients’ preferences.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Krush explained the importance of any digital front door in health care covering the entire patient journey, from initial awareness of symptoms and appointment scheduling to filling prescriptions, obtaining referrals, dealing with medical bills and asking general questions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments).

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

On the medical spending front, Bankrate’s survey noted that 1 in 3 Americans did not seek healthcare in the past year due to costs. Without assurance that these medical bills would be paid, there are people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

.” In his introductory remarks, Frans called out that health care is unaffordable. Eventually, he said, the medical bill needs to be contained. This is a global challenge for health systems around the world, although a particularly unsustainable challenge for volume-driven fee-for-service payment in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2019

Data illustrating that “paradox” is shown in the second chart: while 78% percent of patients told Maestro Health their health care experience is positive, 69% feel they lack control over their patient journey. Quality health care in America is too expensive, 79% of consumers said. Furthermore, one in two U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As health-covered workers continue to face growing healthcare costs for premiums and deductibles, along with increased demands for sharing personal information as part of wellness programs, the worker is also the voter.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here. Individuals and their families are overwhelmed with the information, tasks, steep medical bills and the ‘unknown’ that cancer brings and are trying to manage everything with limited to no support.

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eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Medical Billing & Coding Blog. This blog is all about medical billing and coding. The perfect resources for doctors, managers, and medical billers and coders, blog posts are written exclusively by Manny Oliverez, CEO of capture billing. Kevinmd.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

Julie discussed the Cleveland Clinic’s project on designing a better medical bill, detailing the organization’s design thinking on the inpatient journey and commitment to patient-centered care. [I regularly cover Fidelity’s annual study on retirement healthcare cost sticker shock; here is my latest take on this important report].

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I was very fortunate to have attended the Society for Participatory Medicine’s (SPM) Second Annual Conference , in partnership with the Connected Health Alliance Conference, at Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center on October 17, 2018. Members can submit guest posts to our blog ( guidelines ). Join SPM here.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As nearly 1 in 10 adults carries significant medical debt in light of rising healthcare costs, this expansion enables the company to directly improve the financial well-being of millions of U.S. healthcare consumers in a significant way. Healthcare equity and affordability is a foundational problem in the U.S. About 7wireVentures.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This only accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic, and this time around, bolstered by digital health tools and access to broadband unavailable 14 years ago. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

A privately held company, InterSystems has earned recognition as the Frost & Sullivan European Company of the Year in Integrated Connected Health Technologies and was recognized for innovation and leadership in database technologies by SD Times. National Medical Billing Services (St. Lenovo (Morrisville, N.C.).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Partnering, too, will be important on the road to digitization in health care across the three industry segments. specialty medicines), and people expect greater levels of retail-enhanced service from health care providers, plans, and pharma companies.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2025

Yu In a sign of our health communications times, GLP-1s are a much more frequently health topic Americans hear about than autism and ADHD, cosmetic treatments like Botox, Bird flu, sleep issues, or menopause. The Pew Research Center polled 5,123 U.S.

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