Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). These two trends combine for a 212% increase in workers’ deductibles in the past decade. in the same period.

Telemedicine 62

Telemedicine Health Insurance Medical Billing 62

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

Doctors 87

Doctors Medical Billing Hospitals Health Insurance 87

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Accenture developed a healthcare system literacy index to quantify the relationship between peoples’ understanding of how health insurance works and what a lack of understanding can cost the system. What does my doctor bill mean?” consumers, conducted online in October and November 2017. and “which doctor can I see?”

Health Insurance 21

Health Insurance Doctors Medical Billing 21

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The report’s insights are based on surveys FMI has conducted over the past two years, as the Foundation has observed that consumers broadening their definition of health to include emotional health, energy levels, and sleep quality.

Nurses 123

Nurses Doctors Public Health Medical Billing 123

Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families.

Health Insurance 109

Health Insurance Medical Billing 109

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

Single Payer Health Care 52

Single Payer Health Care Medical Billing Health Care Reform Governance 52

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Peoples’ highest ratings of industry in American occurred in 2017 when nearly 50% of people gave business a very or somewhat positive grade. in the second half of 2022, families and households faced financial stress that strained peoples’ ability to make ends meet… and that included health care, as 5.7

Prescription Drug Pricing 62

Prescription Drug Pricing Health Insurance Medical Billing Doctors 62

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. What working people know is that their wage increases stagnated for over a decade, as they traded off paycheck growth for health care coverage.

Hospitals 91

Hospitals Health Insurance Medicare Medicare 91

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Financial stress is a social determinant of health, and as U.S. patients continue to evolve as health consumers, bearing more financial risks whether in employer-sponsored or individual health insurance plans, more Americans feel more health financed-stress. Thus, my mantra of “the patient is the payor.”

Health Insurance 54

Health Insurance Public Health Medical Billing Medicaid 54

Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say. On a party-identification basis, this sentiment is shared across a majority of Democrats, Independents and Republicans, the third chart illustrates. Cover me, come on baby, cover me.

ACA 48

ACA Health Insurance Medical Billing Public Health 48

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system. Most say, “no,” a proportion falling from the high of 47% “yes” in 2017 to 40% this year. Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line.

Governance 71

Governance Medical Billing Medicaid Medicaid 71

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

by the fourth quarter of 2017, up 1.3 2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. ” That’s because being health-insured is a social determinant of health.

Health Insurance 72

Health Insurance Prescription Drug Pricing Medical Billing Governance 72