Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

84% of Americans told the Foundation that they were concerned about how much health care costs will affect them in the future, with 42% of patients saying they couldn’t afford to pay over $500 for an unexpected medical bill. Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers. Exacerbating U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. There have been many versions of so-called “patient’s bills of rights” over the years.

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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.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In 2006, Medicare Part D launched, which may have boosted consumers’ faith in Federal healthcare programs. Gallup points out in its analysis that the government is already a major health care channeler and funder through Medicare and Medicaid. Most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S. householder’s worries of household budget items among 71% of U.S. voters across political party.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

However, ASC billing practices must be followed to ensure proper reimbursement and regulatory compliance. Medicare Certification ASCs must sign a contract with Medicare and meet its Conditions for Coverage (CFC) to be paid. ASCs must also meet Medicare’s Conditions for Coverage.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S. also say that income inequality and inadequate social services significantly contribute to high medical spending for every health citizen in the nation. This year’s poll was conducted in September 2019 and included input from 2,001 U.S.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2018

Some 86 percent of those surveyed said they’re covered either through their employer, have insurance they purchased directly, or through government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. And 53 percent received a bill that was higher than they expected. How technology can help.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders. billion savings that Medicare Part D could accrue if the program bought generic drugs at the prices offered through the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.

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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. They may be threatened by a call for “Medicare for All” given their affection for the program.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. The Report synthesizes a database covering |300M American lives and 2.7M

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Americans are roughly split — and/or equally confused — about the differences between three major health reform approaches: Medicare -for-All, improving the existing Affordable Care Act, or replacing the ACA with state-run health plans. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Industry experts expect significant changes to shake up the healthcare landscape in the next few years, which will affect both health insurers and providers. Consolidation will continue industry wide. Another factor is that momentum for consolidations across the industry has continued to build and no player wants to be left behind.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

This was equally true for people whether enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, or covered by private insurance. By late 2018, seven in ten Americans had a negative view of the U.S. health care system , Gallup learned. Two-thirds of people also prioritized expanding financial help to include more people who buy insurance on the ACA marketplace.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Here are the key factors we’re incorporating into health ecosystem plans, filtering their import and impact by industry segment. In 1971, Céline published his book, Death on the Installment Plan ; one wonders what Louis-Ferdinand would have thought about this medical billing model. mm over five years).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The updated ACO Reach payment model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth a value-based model of capitated payments to physicians who meet quality and spending targets – combined with a plan to deal with health equity. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In general, the end individual (patient) would have access and restriction processes, but such that they are practical and administered in the same way across the industry. As an industry, we need to work together across traditional boundaries (e.g.,

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 7, 2019

at least, we now expect that extensive medical treatment – whether that’s chemotherapy, ongoing dialysis visits or surgery to repair a broken femur – may involve significant medical bills. Hospital stays, outpatient visits, tests and medications can all add up, even when patients have health insurance. In the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

For decades, America’s $150 billion a year diet industry has failed to curb the nation’s continued weight gain. Americans today pay twice as much for the same medications as people in Europe largely because of Congressional legislation passed in 2003. bankruptcy.

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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. Others could see the added cost reflected later in higher premiums and copays.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 2, 2019

CMS announces a pilot project to display a patient’s claims data to Medicare fee-for-service providers. It appears that it only gives them data for Medicare FFS patients. Only about 60% of Medicare patients are still in FFS, and think about how any one provider’s patients come from a variety of commercial and public payers.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

As a cash-strapped buyer who just wants to know what I will be billed when my PCP orders a dermatology test for a sun spot that I’ve had for 10 years, what am to do? My first inclination is to at least publish the Medicare price. I absolutely hate when non-clinical people compare healthcare with any other industry.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. National Medical Billing Services (St. National Medical Billing Services provides revenue cycle outsourcing services for ASCs and affiliated surgeons. Medline Industries (Northfield, Ill.). AORN (Denver).

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