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). I wrote my first post on Health Populi nearly eleven years ago Labor Day week 2007.
Medisys Compliance
JULY 29, 2022
As per CMS-Ruling 1536-R, effective for services on and after January 22, 2007, Medicare will allow beneficiaries to pay additional charges (which are non-covered by Medicare as these additional charges are not part of a Medicare benefit category) for insertion of an astigmatism correcting intraocular lens (AC-IOL). Reference: [link].
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Jane Sarashon
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here in Health Populi since launching in 2007, we’ve tracked the growth of patients-as-consumers’ financial wellness as part of overall health. That’s due to one-third of people expecting to have significantly less money due to feeling the pinch of higher costs-of-living.
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.
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2018
Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007.
Jane Sarashon
JULY 19, 2022
The chart on the High Financial Toll of Cancer demonstrates that people dealing with cancer face a greater financial risk of using up most of their savings, skipping or delaying care due to cost, withdrawing money early from college or retirement savings accounts for medical bills, and declaring bankruptcy or losing homes.
Jane Sarashon
DECEMBER 20, 2023
There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession.
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