Health Policy, Medical Billing and Public Health

Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Younger people are more likely to demand and be comfortable with virtual care platforms.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP’s ten-article “Bill” incorporates a broad range of rights the speak to today’s health care environment — with States’ rights eroding health care access for certain populations, cybersecurity threats reducing patient trust in health systems and technology ubiquity, and health disparities compromising health (..)

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. No one should lose their livelihood, their home, their life because they can’t afford or understand the prices of their medical treatment.

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Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

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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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

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.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices. Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

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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Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

We’re facing first-dollar health care costs in high-deductible health plans, some of us worried about paying for medical bills related to getting tested and treated for the coronavirus. Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. healthcare system. People may be sick of being sick nationally and globally.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

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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In the US COVID-19 Pandemic, A Tension Between the Fiscal and the Physical

Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

” The U.S. is the only country in the world facing the COVID-19 pandemic where the patient is that payor.

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This Is One Anxiety We Should Eliminate for the Coronavirus Outbreak

Henry Kotula

MARCH 17, 2020

A patient can do everything right and still face substantial surprise medical bills. In his recent Oval Office speech, President Trump pledged that Americans won’t receive surprise bills for their coronavirus testing. Unless swift action is taken, surprise bills are coming. But it was an empty promise.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

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%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

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Healthcare Costs Stress Out U.S. Voters One Week Ahead of 2018 Mid-Term Elections

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One-half of people age 18 to 64 have received a surprise medical bill they thought would be covered by insurance, and one-third say that the ability to pay for care they need is the most pressing issue in American healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The vast majority of the most seriously ill patients in the U.S.

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Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

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. Jeanne founded ClearHealthCosts nearly ten years ago, having worked as a journalist with the New York Times and other media.

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Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

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.

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Pre-Existing Conditions: A Bipartisan, National Health Priority

Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Springsteen’s lyrics preach it like a patient facing healthcare sticker shock, an out-of-control medical bill caused by out-of-network or costs-without-insurance: The times are tough now, just getting tougher.

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Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Ensure Healthcare for All

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

See the second chart, reported in a recent study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Being Seriously Ill in the U.S. . Note that over one-half of people who were ill had serious problems paying at least one type of medical bill, from hospitals and prescription drugs to the doctor’s office and ambulance services.

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The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

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. mm over five years).

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Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Health care pocketbook issues rank first and second place for Americans in these months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, according to research from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health published on 19th February 2020. There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

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. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship.

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Will Health Consumers Morph Into Health Citizens? HealthConsuming Explains, Part 5

Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

A Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll published April 24, 2019 found that most Americans health care policy priorities were to lower health care and prescription drug costs, ensure the ACA’s coverage of pre-existing conditions, and protect people from surprise medical bills.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

In the US COVID-19 Pandemic, A Tension Between the Fiscal and the Physical

This Is One Anxiety We Should Eliminate for the Coronavirus Outbreak

How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Healthcare Costs Stress Out U.S. Voters One Week Ahead of 2018 Mid-Term Elections

Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Pre-Existing Conditions: A Bipartisan, National Health Priority

Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Ensure Healthcare for All

The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Will Health Consumers Morph Into Health Citizens? HealthConsuming Explains, Part 5

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