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The New Financial Toxicity in Health Care: The Cost of Hospitalization

Health Populi

The data points come from one-half million people who were hospitalized in California between 2002 and 2011 and tracked in credit reports which included information on whether and when the patients filed for bankruptcy. health citizens of the economic hardship of high-cost health problems.

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Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

Health Populi

When we think about health care pricing variations, then, it’s not just between hospitals in a particular geography or ZIP code, but it happens within institutions based on contract negotiations with health plans. in July 2021, the lowest read since December 2011. health citizens. Two-thirds of U.S.

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

Opioid-related deaths grew some 20% since 2011 in the U.S. health care versus the OECD peer nations. fall below the OECD average, and the proportion of people who self-report that they are in “good health” is the third highest in the OECD. and are impacting mortality rates in Canada, Estonia and Sweden, too. For the U.S.

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