Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%. Collection rates for the bad debt fell from 76% in 2020 to 55% in just the one year from 2020 to 2021, a drop of nearly one-third.

Hospitals 56

Hospitals Health Insurance Nurses COVID-19 56

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health Insurance 98

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 4, 2022

But even as demand grows, insurance coverage remains limited. About 27% of companies with 500 or more employees covered IVF in 2020, up from about 24% in 2015, according to Mercer , a consulting firm. The first in-network specialists they tried, in spring 2020, had an office nearby, in Viera, Florida. Tell us about it !

Doctors 68

Doctors Medical Billing Patient Advocacy Health Insurance 68

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. The post In the U.S.,

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Medical Billing Doctors Governance Hospitals 111

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S. Overall, 57% of employers offer health benefits — equal to offer levels in 2018 and similar to the 2009 level of 59%.

Federal Policy 76

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

Today, 7th May 2020, the U.S. TransUnion has been tracking consumer-level effects on a weekly basis, and today in Health Populi with 3 mm+ claims filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, I wanted to share TU’s latest analysis of U.S. consumers’ financial health in the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 68

COVID-19 Medical Billing Health Insurance Health Outcomes 68

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

BlackRock partners in the ESI with the Financial Health Network, CommonWealth, the Center for Advanced Hindsight Common Cents Lab, along with UPS, Mastercard, Etsy (whose sellers were the subject of an ESI white paper on the pandemic and gig workers’ financial health), Brightside, Acorns, and Arizona State University.

COVID-19 73

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.

Doctors 90

Doctors Medical Billing Health Insurance Public Health 90

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

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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As of 2022, three in four consumers were offered online access to their medical records by a health care provider or health insurance plan, and well over one-half accessed their medical record or portal — growing by 50% over the two years, 2020 to 2022 (from 38% to 57%).

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Medical Billing Health Insurance Electronic Medical Records 100

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.

Nursing Homes 40

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. Hospital care spending, the largest single component in national health spending, is estimated at $1.3

COVID-19 73

COVID-19 Health Insurance Public Health Medical Billing 73

Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Connecticut ditches $20M health information exchange software. Two Health Insurers Grilled for Proposing Rate Increases of 20 and 25 Percent. Henry Ford Health reports negative operating margin. Michigan health insurance companies ordered to lower costs. Trinity Health provides Stroke Support Group.

COVID-19 40

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

Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

More health citizens access therapy via virtual platforms at the start of the COVID-19 era in early 2020, with tele-mental health sustaining use ahead of other conditions for which people seek virtual medical services.

COVID-19 52

COVID-19 Health Insurance Public Health Hospitals 52

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

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. The Narsh family had Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance at the time of Mason’s hospitalizations.

Hospitals 55

Hospitals Medical Billing Health Care Reform Health Insurance 55

Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 20, 2022

A wildfire displaced thousands of Coloradans just as the omicron surge began sweeping through the state, so health insurance was likely not on many people’s minds when the regular enrollment period for the state’s health insurance marketplace ended Jan. That changed during the pandemic.

Health Insurance 71

Health Insurance COVID-19 Medical Billing Hospitals 71

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

The latest (March 2021) Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll learned that at least one in three Americans were recently “struggling” to pay living expenses since December 2020, with six in ten families affected by COVID-19 having lost a job or income. adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

COVID-19 112

COVID-19 Health Insurance ACA Medicaid 112

Hall Render

OCTOBER 20, 2023

1 start as federal regulators give final OK Pfizer to cut costs by $3.5B.

COVID-19 Vaccine 40

COVID-19 Vaccine Nursing Homes COVID-19 Nurses 40

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

State officials are noncommittal Nursing home in CT accused of neglect, staffing shortages Lawsuit: Routine procedure would have saved Oxford mom who died after 2020 childbirth DC D.C.’s

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

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

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. Called Rethink, Rewire, Retire , the research polled 2,001 U.S.

Health Insurance 110

Health Insurance Medical Billing Medicare Medicare 110

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.

Hospitals 66

Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medical Billing 66

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. Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. The survey was fielded in July 2020 among 1,007 U.S. adults 18 and older.

COVID-19 Vaccine 98

COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Medical Billing Health Insurance 98

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.

Governance 71

Governance Medical Billing Medicaid Medicaid 71

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. Job losses as of 22nd April 2020 tallied to 26.5 Jeanne founded ClearHealthCosts nearly ten years ago, having worked as a journalist with the New York Times and other media.

COVID-19 106

COVID-19 Medical Billing Public Health Health Insurance 106

Hall Render

MARCH 1, 2024

KXAN investigates Does UT Tyler Health Science Center’s deal with private equity shield doctors from malpractice suits?

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Hospitals 40

Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

to resolve False Claims allegations Q&A with Ken DeFurio, CEO of the new Independence Health System St.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals 40

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

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. For this group, it’s more local control and influence that’s valued versus a national assurance of health care. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform.

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ACA Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Health care continues to be the top-ranked voting issue in the U.S. looking to the November 2020 Presidential and Congressional elections. Third and fourth on voters’ minds are protecting patients from surprise medical bills and better addressing drug addiction.

ACA 86

ACA Medical Billing Health Insurance Medicare 86

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

This poll from RealClear Politics , conducted in late April/early May 2019, makes my point that the patient is the consumer and, facing deductibles and more financial exposure to footing the medical bill, the payor. is on the right track, and are least likely to vote for President Trump in 2020.

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Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare Health Insurance 59