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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

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Note that nearly 1 in 2 of high-income Americans, earning at least $100,000 a year, had had health care debt in the past five years, shown in the first chart from the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Care Debt Survey. health citizens. ” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt? .

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

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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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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

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Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. One in three Americans overall are concerned they won’t be able to pay for health care services or prescription drugs: that includes 35% of people who are insured, and 63% of those who do not have insurance. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

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The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

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Power found in their Study which was conducted among 4,306 health care consumers who had used a telehealth service in the 12 months preceding June and July 2022 when the survey was fielded. Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S.

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The Financial Toxicity of Health Care Costs: From Cancer to FICO Scores

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In this survey conducted among patients and survivors dealing with cancer in February 2022, most people said they were unprepared for what the costs of their care would be. The last bar chart shown here comes from the Survivor Views survey from the American Cancer Society, done in February 2022.

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

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The pharmacy is all these things, and increasingly digital-first, we learn in The Rx Report: A new day in retail pharmacy , a consumer survey from CVS Health. CVS Health, one of the two largest pharmacies operating in the U.S. in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S.