Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2018

” However, the poll, conducted by the University of Chicago and the West Health Institute, found Americans fear large medical bills more than they do serious illness. And 53 percent received a bill that was higher than they expected.

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction. A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers.

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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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

So the challenge for mainstream working householders, shopping for value-priced groceries and managing utility costs and the price of filling a gas tank to get to that job — how to pay for health care? This will make healthcare a voting issue for some women in the 2018 mid-term elections.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). ” The post How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S.

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