Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

The theme of this year’s Epic User Group Meeting (UGM) was Castaway which was inspired by both the Tom Hank’s movie as well as earlier fare like Gilligan’s Island. Explaining Medical Bills. Early response has been positive with some patients commenting how the generated responses are more empathetic than prior communications.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

The article discusses the promises and problems with a growing supply of new companies targeting the patient billing, payment, and revenue-cycle management space, most of which are painted with the brush of improving “patient experience.”

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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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Home care’s morphing is shown on the bottom of this exhibit, morphing from more mom-and-pop local and regional providers toward more corporate, super-regional and national groups. A Debt.com survey out this weeks concludes that i nflation is making us sick, physically and financially — with 67% of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) partnered with Humana on a study to assess the pandemic’s impact on physician practices as patients avoided seeking medical care in the wake of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The report’s insights are based on surveys FMI has conducted over the past two years, as the Foundation has observed that consumers broadening their definition of health to include emotional health, energy levels, and sleep quality. One-third of stores in FMI’s survey have in-store retail health clinics.

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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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ACA Times

MAY 21, 2015

Most people who purchased their own health insurance plans through an Affordable Care Act marketplace say they are satisfied with their plan’s coverage and features, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. A large majority (74%) rate their coverage as excellent or good.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

Nearly half of all Americans say they or someone they live with has delayed care since the onslaught of coronavirus , according to a survey last month from the Kaiser Family Foundation. While the survey didn’t ask people why they were putting off care, there is ample evidence that medical bills can be a powerful deterrent.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 15, 2023

According to the National Health Interview Survey , approximately 30 million Americans were without health insurance in the first half of 2020, and around 43% of adults aged 19 to 64 had inadequate coverage as of mid-2022. To be eligible for Medicaid , individuals must meet certain income and asset criteria, which vary by state.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 30, 2018

I am able to divert enough money from my paycheck to our health savings account to cover our medical bills, and that amount doesn’t leave us struggling with our other expenses. But a 2016 Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 29% of workers were enrolled in such plans, up 9% from 2014.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Klepper of Worksite Health Advisors , longtime consigliere to self-insured employers, unions, and value-oriented providers of medical services, explained the growth in value-based care he expects to see in the coming months: “Today’s descendants of the disruptor Managed Care companies of the 1980’s are value-focused and high performing….that

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2024

AARP conducted the organization’s annual survey of the 2024 electorate for the November Presidential and down ballot elections. adults, which included a group of $1,041 women ages 50 and over. Health Populi’s Hot Points: More tightly focusing on the U.S. AARP polled 3,380 U.S.

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Mend

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A recent survey by KFF/Washington Post shows that 76% of frontline healthcare workers say they feel “hopeful” when going to work these days. The survey shows that younger healthcare workers are more likely to report negative feelings than their older counterparts. The number of years in practice is also a significant factor.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Wave HDC offers several insurance “curators” including Coordination of Benefits, Eligibility, and Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers, and serves hospitals, laboratories, billing companies, and physician groups. For more information about Experian Health, visit experian.com/healthcare.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Hospitals, Health Systems and Medical Groups. Chamber of Commerce, Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte, and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Black Chamber of Commerce, and in 2016 Business Resource Groups and Diversity Council honored the health system along with 24 other organizations for diversity and inclusion.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The research found that peoples’ exposure to clinician quality information doubled between 2010 and 2015, and more consumers sought quality metrics — albeit, with differences across sub-groups of people (e.g., In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

That real-people financial reality is discussed in a “Fact Tank” essay from the Pew Research Group, For most US workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. Here’s evidence from a new Bankrate survey which had a question regarding women’s concerns about healthcare, shown in the table.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2019

As patients have taken on more financial responsibility for first-dollar costs in high-deductible health plans and medical bills, hospitals and health care providers face growing fiscal pressures for late payments and bad debt. Over one-half of people told APA that medical bills and the cost of medications were sources of stress.

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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. adults also say they wouldn’t have sufficient money saved to cover costs to cover COVID-19 medical care, from a Healthinsurance.com survey. One-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The most important factor that underpins peoples’ engaging with their health and health care organizations is trust…and distrust in America is up, the Pew Research Group told us earlier this year in their report on Trust and Distrust in America. We’ll start with some knowns, first with Trust, Mis-Trust, and Big Tech Animus.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Third and fourth on voters’ minds are protecting patients from surprise medical bills and better addressing drug addiction. Overall, Americans point to prescription drug costs and the preservation of the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions, the first chart tells us.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Here’s The Hill ‘s coverage on the survey, which was conducted with the Peter G. The second poll we’ll consider is the survey from The Harvard Chan School of Public Health published in October 2019 (conducted in July-August 2019) teamed with the Commonwealth Fund and the New York Times. Peterson Foundation.

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