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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Health Populi

in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category.

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FTC Issues First Financial Penalty for a Health Breach Notification Rule Violation

HIPAA Journal

GoodRx is a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of a telemedicine platform that includes a free-to-use website and mobile app that consumers can use to track prescription drug prices and obtain coupons that provide discounts on medications. The platform can also be used to arrange telehealth visits and access other health services.

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Magnolia Regional used price transparency IT to get more CHF patients to fill their prescriptions

Healthcare It News

"Next, we used MedHx to gather complete patient medication history so we could track whether patients in the study had filled their prescriptions," he added. From July 2020 to September 2021, Magnolia Regional studied medication adherence and prescription fill rates for 417 patients with CHF. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

The second largest waste component was pricing failure, associated with medication pricing failure (the largest piece of three components), payer-based health services pricing failure, and lab and ambulatory pricing. Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen. This Health Affairs research published in 2015 made it clear that State spending on social health services builds citizens’ health beyond medical services.

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Challenges and Considerations – Transparent Healthcare Pricing

Medval Compliance Blog

Recognizing the mounting attention given to hidden fees and surprise billing, on June 24, 2019, former President Trump signed an executive order (EO) directing the Department of Health and Human Services (and additional agencies) to take steps to improve price and quality transparency in healthcare. Medicare Set-Aside Considerations.