Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

There’s a new data continuum with a shift in the relationship between the deliverers of services and their buyers. That data powers new relationships and programs, Marc explained. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

HIPAA 246

HIPAA Medical Billing Leadership Public Health 246

Henry Kotula

APRIL 14, 2023

[link] More than two years after Congress acted to shield patients from surprise medical bills , lawmakers are turning to another source of unexpected medical costs: the fees that hospitals tack on for services provided in clinics they own.

Health Policy 41

Health Policy Nursing Medical Billing Medicare 41

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

Pharmaceuticals 136

Pharmaceuticals Medical Billing Medicare Mental health 136

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.

Primary Care 225

Primary Care Mental health Medical Billing Health Data 225

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

98% of Americans rank paying their medical bills is an important pain point in their patient journey, according to Embracing consumerism: Driving customer engagement in the healthcare financial journey , from Experian Health. Beyond the physical and emotional pain that people experience when they become a patient, in the U.S.

Patient Experience 159

Patient Experience Medical Billing Health Policy 159

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The top line data points are shown in the first chart. asked him about health care costs’ impact on the national U.S. Some of that credit card debt no doubt has medical bills associated with it. After his prepared remarks, Chairman Powell responded to questions from members of the Senate Banking Committee.

Medical Billing 182

Medical Billing Health Policy 182

Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

To determine whether unpaid medical billing data should be included in credit reports. We come full circle with this third recommendation from CFPB with the Equifax-Experian-TransUnion plan to reduce most medical debt from patients’ credit reports.

Medical Billing 170

Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 170

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.

Mental health 157

Mental health Medical Billing Medical Technology Pharmaceuticals 157

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Collecting and analyzing data regarding quality and clinical outcomes as the result of changes in delivery of care from inpatient to outpatient is also key. These strategies should focus on optimizing economies of scale to reduce costs and finding the best partners to achieve improved quality of care and effectively manage population health.

Primary Care 41

Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience HIPAA 41

Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

As prices climb ever-higher, at least half of Americans can’t afford to pay their out-of-pocket medical bills, which remain the leading cause of U.S. Alongside environmental and social factors are a number of medical causes for the nation’s dip in longevity. The newest data show that suicides across the U.S. bankruptcy.

Mental health 41

Mental health Medicare Medical Billing Telemedicine 41

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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. Entering 2023, U.S.

Health Technology 156

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2019

are confused, cost-challenged and lacking control, according to The Consumer Healthcare Paradox from Maestro Health, an employee health and benefits company. Quality health care in America is too expensive, 79% of consumers said. patients had received a medical bill that was higher than they anticipated it would be.

Telehealth 223

Telehealth Medical Billing Health Policy Digital Health 223

Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumers to Health Citizens , I conclude with a call-to-action and my own question: “What if…people in America were Health Citizens, where the government ensured health care as a social and civil right, health informed public policy, and people owned and controlled their heatlh data?

Medical Billing 182

Medical Billing Public Health Medicare Health Information 182

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

Medical Billing 130

Medical Billing Medicare Mental health Public Health 130

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care.

Digital Health 256

Digital Health Health Policy Medical Billing Interoperability 256

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.

Life Science 194

Life Science Medical Billing Health Data Primary Care 194

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The intention of this mandate is to enable patients-as-consumers to more readily shop for health care services that are “shoppable.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The last chart organizes ACSI’s customer satisfaction benchmarks by industry in 2019.

Primary Care 170

Primary Care Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy 170

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

More women know a family member who has avoided care due to cost, and more faced paying a medical bill that was higher than expected. Needless to say, as the third row of data demonstrates, most of both women and men are worried they might not have affordable health plans in the future, Bankrate found.

Medical Billing 168

Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy 168

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The objectives would be to stabilize the insurance premiums in individual health insurance marketplaces, to provide relief and flexibility to employers, to reduce system-wide health care costs across payers (including ending surprise medical bills and eliminating barriers to prescription drug competition), to improve Medicare (eg.,

Health Policy 191

Health Policy Medicare Primary Care Medical Billing 191

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. We’ll be brainstorming Health and Wealth in the coronavirus pandemic, covering a broad array of facts, health consumer challenges and hacks in our conversation.

Medical Billing 267

Medical Billing Mental health Public Health Health Policy 267

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.

Mental health 203

Mental health Medicare Medical Billing Public Health 203

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 1971, Céline published his book, Death on the Installment Plan ; one wonders what Louis-Ferdinand would have thought about this medical billing model. Health Politics, Policy and the President. level, and then the tighter lens on health politics and health policy.

Public Health 232

Public Health Health Policy Medicare Medical Billing 232

Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Third and fourth on voters’ minds are protecting patients from surprise medical bills and better addressing drug addiction. Lowering Rx prices is the top health policy issue for Republicans tied with addressing the drug epidemic.

Health Policy 215

Health Policy Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Medicare 215

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2018

.” In the sample, two-thirds of respondents had seen a health care provider for an illness or medical condition in the past 12 months, so two-thirds of the survey sample have faced a medical encounter yielding some kind of medical bill in the past year. The second chart shows the roughly 50/50 split of U.S.

BioTech 120

BioTech Medical Billing Life Science Pharmaceuticals 120

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This links to protecting coverage with pre-existing conditions and surprise medical bill concerns, as well. There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table. Look across the data for total, Dems and Reps and you’ll see 37%, 40% and 37%, respectively.

Medical Billing 191

Medical Billing Leadership Mental health Patient Experience 191

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

adults believes lowering health care costs is more important than ensuring universal access to health care — another indication that medical bills continue to be a front-of-brain kitchen table issue for mainstream Americans for whom healthcare is a very personal family priority.

Medicare 130

Medicare Medical Billing Nursing Public Health 130

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

This poll from RealClear Politics , conducted in late April/early May 2019, makes my point that the patient is the consumer and, facing deductibles and more financial exposure to footing the medical bill, the payor. Only 4% of people say American health care is “working well.”

Life Science 149

Life Science BioTech Medicare Medical Billing 149