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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The key findings in the survey of 136 health care executives were that: Digital health tools are a priority for half of the health system leaders. Even trust with pharmaceutical companies increased that year. Only 1 in 3 felt their consumer digital experience was considered “the best possible”.

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Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). Who’s responsible? Plus ça change.

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

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

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. ” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt? . health citizens.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

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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Consumers Are Feeling Their Healthcare Cost of Living – Research from Qualtrics

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2022

health consumers are avoiding or delaying health care, replacing concerns about COVID-19, based on survey research from Qualtrics. The company’s Healthcare Cost of Living survey research learned that 48% of U.S. Qualtrics conducted the survey in August-September 2022 among 1,000 U.S. Rising costs are the #1 reason U.S.

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Bonus Features – October 29, 2023 – 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care, and 28 more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Studies and Surveys Nearly 80% of patients say the billing experience is important when choosing a provider , according to a report from Salucro Healthcare Solutions. Additionally, two-thirds of patients said they prefer text or email reminders about their bills, while demand for contactless payments has doubled in two years.

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Patients Growing Health Consumer Muscles Expect Digital Services

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year.

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The Patient as Prescription Drug Payer – The GoodRx Playbook

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. 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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The Pharma Industry Hits Bottom of Consumers’ Industry Rankings, and Healthcare Is Only Marginally Higher on the List

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

from Gallup’s 2019 survey into Americans’ Views of U.S. 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. Business Industry Sectors.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

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.

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Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

This results of the consumer and provider surveys combines those corporate interests, discussed in this report. You may know the name Experian as one of the largest credit rating agencies for consumer finance in the U.S. You may not know that the company has a significant footprint in health care and financial technology.

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors.

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Americans Worry About Medical Bankruptcy, With Prescription Drug Costs Also Playing Into Voters’ Concerns

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a poll conducted with West Health, Gallup found that more younger people are concerned about medical debt risks, along with more non-white adults, published in their study report, 50% in U.S. The survey was fielded in July 2020 among 1,007 U.S. Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. adults 18 and older. One-fourth of U.S.

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Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

That’s the title of a new report that captures the results of a survey conducted in January 2024 among 1,516 employed Americans who received employer-sponsored health insurance.

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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

This insight comes from the Patientco annual survey report on the state of the patient financial experience. 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.

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A Uniting Issue in the United States is Lowering Prescription Drug Costs

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.

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Consumers Consider Cost When They Think About Medical Innovation

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. adults in April-May 2018 for this survey.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

Next, consider the specific role of cancer costs and financial toxicity, quantified in Survivor Views: Cancer & Medical Debt from the Cancer Action Network. 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.

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

AARP conducted the organization’s annual survey of the 2024 electorate for the November Presidential and down ballot elections. Health Populi’s Hot Points: More tightly focusing on the U.S. AARP polled 3,380 U.S. adults, which included a group of $1,041 women ages 50 and over.

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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

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.

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Klepper of Worksite Health Advisors , longtime consigliere to self-insured employers, unions, and value-oriented providers of medical services, explained the growth in value-based care he expects to see in the coming months: “Today’s descendants of the disruptor Managed Care companies of the 1980’s are value-focused and high performing….that

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

According to the hospital’s most recent employee engagement survey, the hospital’s overall employee engagement score was 89 percent and its employee retention rate is 92.6 Beaumont surveys its employees consistently and has several channels for employees to share their opinions on the workplace.

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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill

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

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

Consumers Are Feeling Their Healthcare Cost of Living – Research from Qualtrics

Bonus Features – October 29, 2023 – 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care, and 28 more

Patients Growing Health Consumer Muscles Expect Digital Services

The Patient as Prescription Drug Payer – The GoodRx Playbook

The Pharma Industry Hits Bottom of Consumers’ Industry Rankings, and Healthcare Is Only Marginally Higher on the List

The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Americans Worry About Medical Bankruptcy, With Prescription Drug Costs Also Playing Into Voters’ Concerns

Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

A Uniting Issue in the United States is Lowering Prescription Drug Costs

Consumers Consider Cost When They Think About Medical Innovation

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

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

Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

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

150 top places to work in healthcare

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