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The Patient as Prescription Drug Payer – The GoodRx Playbook

Health Populi

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. Gallup and West Health have been studying Healthcare in America , finding in their June 2022 consumer survey that one in four people in the U.S.

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Patients Growing Health Consumer Muscles Expect Digital Services

Health Populi

Survata conducted the study for Cedar among 1,607 online U.S. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S.

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

Health Populi

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]. Mark Fendrick, and has an active and innovative advisory board. Some of the most important areas of the Center’s impact include initiatives addressing low-value care, waste in U.S.

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

Health Populi

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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Deep Human Interactions: The Antidote To More AI In Health Care – Learning From Philips’ CEO At HIMSS19

Health Populi

Eventually, he said, the medical bill needs to be contained. Combine that demand side on the consumer/patient side with the fact that pressures in health care delivery organizations are creating dissatisfaction among health care workers, a Bain study recently observed looking at the “front line of health care.”

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Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Studies have shown that the rate of hospital consolidation – which has more than doubled since 2009 – is driving healthcare costs up, creating worse health outcomes, and reducing services available to patients. Justin Butler, Partner at Eclipse Ventures.

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The Women’s Health Gap Is Especially Wide During Her Working Years – Learning from McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, and AARP in Women’s History Month

Health Populi

It takes a village to address gender health equity: the report concludes that the issue does not stand-alone — and requires the community of education, government, life science innovators, philanthropists, activists and business to recognize and address this challenge.