Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

pre-care cost estimates that are accurate (personalized based on their own health insurance plans), payment plans for paying medical bills over time, digital payment options (think: Venmo meets medical bills), a multi-purpose portal, and mobile access for both administrative tasks and care — that is, virtual care/telehealth.

Medical Billing 156

Medical Billing Telehealth Digital Health Medicare 156

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. You can download the paper at this link.

Life Science 170

Life Science Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals 170

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors. Nine in ten people told HealthPocket that prices for medical services should be as readily available as prices are on a menu at a restaurant. One of the unique aspects of U.S.

Digital Health 250

Digital Health Medical Billing Health Information Health Data 250

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

At the end of this day, something Muna Bhanji, an advisor to biopharmaceutical developers who spent over 30 years of her career with Merck, noted: no advances toward value-based care will happen without a sense of partnership, requiring aligned incentives across the health/care ecosystem.

Health Policy 245

Health Policy Medicare Pharmaceuticals Life Science 245

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The third chart tells us that patients-as-consumers would most likely sacrifice dining out, entertainment, and travel to be able to pay medical bills. Qualtrics’ data bolsters our understanding of health care costs baked into the patient financial experience and, more broadly, the overall patient experience.

Mental health 170

Mental health Patient Experience Medical Billing Leadership 170

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2023

.” For health care industry stakeholder organizations, this is now Job 1: attend to the patient-consumer-citizen’s sense of values as well as their sense of value as the medical bill payor… and support the patient-member-citizen through their health and well-being journey on their terms.

Medical Billing 156

Medical Billing Health Information Pharmaceuticals Digital Health 156

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. In my data wonkiness, inflation certainly played a starring role in setting the stage for Mind, Body and Wallet — the title of one of the sources of my plotline.

Medical Billing 288

Medical Billing Medicare Pharmaceuticals 288

Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

One-third of people was worried about what they would owe in the medical bill, and just over one-fourth of people were concerned about exposure to COVID-19. This insight comes from the Patientco annual survey report on the state of the patient financial experience.

Patient Experience 323

Patient Experience Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals 323

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

Having health insurance in America is no guarantee of actually receiving health care. It’s a case of having health insurance as “necessary but not sufficient,” as the cost of deductibles, out-of-pocket coinsurance sharing, and delaying care paint the picture of The Hidden Lives of Workplace-Insured Americans.

Medical Billing 182

Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Public Health 182

Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

To determine whether unpaid medical billing data should be included in credit reports. We come full circle with this third recommendation from CFPB with the Equifax-Experian-TransUnion plan to reduce most medical debt from patients’ credit reports. Work with Federal partners to reduce coercive credit reporting, and.

Medical Billing 170

Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 170

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

A report published in May this year by the Commonwealth Fund learned that one-half of working-age Americans would not have the money to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

Medical Billing 217

Medical Billing Primary Care Pharmaceuticals 217

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.

Mental health 157

Mental health Medical Billing Medical Technology Pharmaceuticals 157

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2023, patients-as-health citizens remain concerned about the privacy and security of their personal information across many fronts: in women’s health data in the post-Roe v Wade era, for medical bill redlining , or for advertisers who fall well out of “healthcare” contexts and HIPAA oversight.

Health Technology 156

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2024

There’s a gender-health gap that hits women particularly hard when she is of working age — negatively impacting her own physical and financial health, along with that of the community and nation in which she lives.

Life Science 182

Life Science Mental health Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals 182

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In this this third chart, I’ve focused in on grocery, retail, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors which have become core touchpoints in consumers’ health ecosystems. The Gallup data can help us understand the changing nature of consumers’ trust, business, and health/care as organizations strike up these relationships.

Pharmaceuticals 156

Pharmaceuticals Medical Billing Primary Care Medicare 156

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Gallup notes that Americans are over two times more likely to rank the pharmaceutical industry negatively (58%) as positively (27%). “The pharmaceutical industry’s U.S. This was a 31 percentage point drop in reputation in one year. This is one negativity point above peoples’ low regard for the Federal government.

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Pharmaceuticals Medical Billing Nursing 160

HIStalk Weekender

OCTOBER 5, 2018

But if we are going to point out the greed and highly questionable ethics amongst doctors and pharmaceutical companies, lets do the same for health IT as well. The other term for it is capitalism. For better or worse, that is the system we choose to live in. Cash-strapped hospitals aren’t the reason that Orion Health went over the cliff.

HIE 31

HIE Nursing Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals 31

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

National Medical Billing Services (St. National Medical Billing Services provides revenue cycle outsourcing services for ASCs and affiliated surgeons. La Jolla Pharmaceutical (San Diego). In 2017, the company participated in five employee engagement surveys and found the average tenure rate of 3.6

Leadership 32

Leadership Nursing Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 32

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In 2020, one certainty in our own forecast is that more patients will take on the role as medical bill payors, as enrollment in high-deductible health plans continues to grow, out-of-pocket costs increase for health care services and goods (esp.

Life Science 194

Life Science Medical Billing Health Data Primary Care 194

Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

families could not afford to pay $1,000 for an emergency medical bill in one study; in another, that inability to pay is as low as a $400 emergency to cover. We know that, ironically, one-half of U.S. This year, Milliman notes, “employers pay more; employers pay a lot more” for healthcare spending.

Accountable Care 227

Accountable Care Medicare Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals 227

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. Further refining the point that patients’ medical bills and expenses are now part of their household and retail financial budgets, the Federal Reserve published this report on households’ well-being, asserting that 23% of U.S.

Mental health 203

Mental health Medical Billing Public Health Medicare 203

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One of the basic questions in studies like these is whether a consumer could cover a $500 medical bill with their current savings. In July 2020, 54% of Americans could fund a $500 medical expense through a checking or savings account (separate from a health savings vehicle like an HSA or MSA), shown in the first table.

Medical Billing 245

Medical Billing Health science Pharmaceuticals Public Health 245

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The objectives would be to stabilize the insurance premiums in individual health insurance marketplaces, to provide relief and flexibility to employers, to reduce system-wide health care costs across payers (including ending surprise medical bills and eliminating barriers to prescription drug competition), to improve Medicare (eg.,

Health Policy 191

Health Policy Medicare Primary Care Medical Billing 191

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2018

.” In the sample, two-thirds of respondents had seen a health care provider for an illness or medical condition in the past 12 months, so two-thirds of the survey sample have faced a medical encounter yielding some kind of medical bill in the past year. The second chart shows the roughly 50/50 split of U.S.

BioTech 120

BioTech Medical Billing Life Science Pharmaceuticals 120

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

health citizens are highly concerned about their personal out-of-pocket costs for medical services and insurance, as well as prescription drug coverage. This links to protecting coverage with pre-existing conditions and surprise medical bill concerns, as well.

Medical Billing 191

Medical Billing Leadership Mental health Patient Experience 191

Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Third and fourth on voters’ minds are protecting patients from surprise medical bills and better addressing drug addiction. Overall, Americans point to prescription drug costs and the preservation of the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions, the first chart tells us.

Health Policy 215

Health Policy Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Medicare 215

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.

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Life Science BioTech Medicare Medical Billing 149