Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

health care system. As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens.

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Telemedicine Medical Billing Health Insurance Hospitals 172

HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 25, 2023

Logan Health Medical Center – was filed against Logan Health in the Montana Eighth Judicial District Court shortly after notification letters were mailed. Affected individuals were offered complimentary credit monitoring services. A lawsuit – Tafelski, et al.

Medical Billing 84

Medical Billing Fraud HIPAA Health Insurance 84

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There’s no mistaking that more Supercenters are located in areas with greater levels of people without insurance based on data from 2019 (Walmart store location count) and 2018 (uninsured rates). This week, too, The Wall Street Journal analyzed the impact of insurer-owned retail clinics’ potential threat to hospitals.

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Hospitals Health Insurance Medical Billing 127

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments).

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ACA Health Insurance Medical Billing Telemedicine 97

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. adults 18 and over assessing peoples’ financial behaviors in the context of health care. Given a $60K median U.S.

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Medical Billing Doctors Governance Hospitals 111

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Prescription Drug Pricing Health Insurance Doctors Medicare 64

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When PatientsLikeMe was acquired by UnitedHealthcare earlier this year, my friends-in-health-tech Susannah Fox, Lisa Suennen and I wrote a response to the acquisition and situation on each of our blogs, and on Medium. Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019.

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Hospitals Doctors Medical Billing Health Insurance 64

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.

Health Care Reform 62

Health Care Reform Medical Billing Hospitals Health Insurance 62

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction. A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers. What causes eye pain?

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HIPAA Health Insurance Doctors Medical Billing 98

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.

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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.

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Health Insurance Medical Billing 109

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

has skipped or stopped paying a bill, and over half of Americans have used emergency savings, according to a survey from the BlackRock Emergency Savings Initiative (ESI). BlackRock, the investment firm, allocated $50 million in February 2019 to form the ESI, focused on helping people with lower incomes to bolster savings and financial health.

COVID-19 73

COVID-19 Medical Billing Health Insurance 73

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Hackers gained access to a single file server housing files that contained patients’ protected health information such as names, contact information, insurance claim information, date(s) of service, medical bill account number, and health insurance informa­tion.

HIPAA 112

HIPAA Health Insurance Medical Billing Fraud 112

Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

Mark Palumbo SOUTH CAROLINA Fire damages portion of Cross Creek Medical Park building in Greenville McLeod Health to build $45 million replacement hospital MUSC could spend up to $705 million on new hospitals in fast-growing SC counties Oconee Memorial Foundation launches $4.2M names new executive director National Healthcare Corp.

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Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals Doctors 40

Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

health care spending will grow to 20% of the national economy by 2028, forecasted in projections pre-published in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs, National Health Expenditure (NHE) Projections. 2019-28: Expected Rebound in Prices Drives Rising Spending Growth. NHE will grow 5.4% in the decade, the model expects.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Public Health Medical Billing 73

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.

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Single Payer Health Care Medical Billing Health Care Reform Governance 52

Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Anchorage’s Mobile Crisis Team hopes funding to operate 24/7 will expand ability to address mental health crises. Health Affairs report shows Alaskans spent more out-of-pocket dollars on health care than residents in any other state in 2019. Connecticut ditches $20M health information exchange software.

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COVID-19 Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses 40

Health Populi

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Three in four people with children at home are worried about paying at least one monthly bill, including from the top utilities (34%), rent/mortgage (33%), credit cards (33%), food (32%), health insurance or medical bills (23%), transportation expenses (20%), and loans (including student loans, 20%).

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Health Insurance Medical Billing Doctors 72

Kaiser Health News

JUNE 16, 2022

Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health insurance, couldn’t make an appointment with his doctor for a dangerous intestinal infection because the office said he had outstanding bills. The flood of unpaid bills has made medical debt the most common form of debt on consumer credit records. .

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US Department of Health and Human Services Medical Billing Hospitals Medicare 145

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? Finally, to the fourth paper, looking at the roles of assisters and automated decision support tools in consumers’ health insurance marketplace choices.

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ACA Health Insurance Bioethics Prescription Drug Pricing 102

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Doctors Health Care Reform 68

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

from Gallup’s 2019 survey into Americans’ Views of U.S. This segment in the Gallup poll would include hospitals and health insurance. professions, explained here in Health Populi ). Business Industry Sectors. This was a 31 percentage point drop in reputation in one year.

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Pharmaceutical Industry Governance Health Insurance Medical Billing 64

Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

Be prepared to drive to deliver Mount Sinai launches regenerative medicine outpost to translate research into medicines Northwell marketing chief joins Ad Council board Ribbon cut at Watertown’s new mental health urgent care Surgical communication platform raises $4.2

Nurses 40

Nurses Nursing Homes COVID-19 Hospitals 40

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2019

As patients have taken on more financial responsibility for first-dollar costs in high-deductible health plans and medical bills, hospitals and health care providers face growing fiscal pressures for late payments and bad debt. over-the-counter drugs and personal care), biotech, pharma, and health insurance.

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Hospitals Medical Billing Health Insurance 71

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

despite the much-higher spend on health care in America depicted in the first graph. falling since 2019 – a relative high mark just pre-pandemic. health care and other high-income countries is that America is the only one of its nation peers that does not guarantee health coverage for all. it was 77 years.

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COVID-19 Medical Billing Health Outcomes Hospitals 68

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

But while there’s majority support for universal health care, we should think broadly about this concept at this moment. Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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Governance Medical Billing Medicaid Medicaid 71

Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The growing interest in how tax-exempt hospitals operate — from lawmakers, the public, and the media — has coincided with a stubborn increase in consumers’ medical debt. ” Hospitals have long argued they need to charge private insurance plans higher rates to make up for the Medicaid shortfall.

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Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medical Billing 66

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

Health care costs continue to be a top issue on American voters’ minds in this 2020 Presidential election year, this survey confirms. The first chart illustrates that lowering health care costs is a priority that crosses political parties.

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Health Insurance Medical Billing Medicare Medicare 110

Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M Here’s what it means. Connecticut is weighing several changes to Medicaid.

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COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Hospitals 40

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The second bar chart illustrates the tri-partisan concurrence supporting surprise medical bill legislation: overall, 8 in 10 U.S. adults support a law to ensure against surprise bills, including 84% of Democrats, 78% of Independents, and 71% of Republicans. The line chart tracks the uninsured rate in the U.S.,

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ACA Medicare Medicare Medical Billing 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

.'” I note that note all national health plan designs would need to be tied to Medicare. There are many ways to deliver universal health care to citizens beyond this concept. Paying more in taxes and eliminating private insurance companies would be opposed by most people. from a low of 10.9 I notice that U.S.

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ACA Medicare Medicare Health Insurance 62

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Today is 4th November 2019, exactly one year to the day that Americans can express their political will and cast their vote for President of the United States. Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S.

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ACA Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare 52

Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

.” I note that, by the time Americans voted in the 2018 mid-term elections, it was no surprise that lower-income Americans were highly concerned about paying higher premiums, most people earning over $75,000 a year were also very worried about covering the costs of health insurance. health care system , Gallup learned.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

Health care and the economy are, in fact, intimately tied in every American’s personal household economy I assert in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Technology, biotech, hospitals, and life science companies would be the health care improvers, most Americans told RealClear pollsters.

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Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare Health Insurance 59