Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. Part 2 will cover the impact of COVID-19 on physician well-being, and Part 3, on the impact of the coronavirus on the health care system.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

COVID-19 is re-shaping health care in America across many dimensions. In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. health care. health care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2020

The fear and risk-management of contracting the COVID-19 virus, for ourselves and our families. The economic shock or either losing our jobs, seeing our savings eroding from 401(k) plans, losing our health insurance, or all of the above. Here’s a link to the post. Thanks for clicking and reading.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 12, 2024

of US physicians are employed by hospitals, health systems, or corporate entities. Over 19,100 physicians left independent practices to join hospitals, health systems, or corporations in 2022 and 2023 alone. This includes ownership by health insurers, private equity firms, and large pharmacy chains.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2020

Beyond the physical and clinical aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are financial hits that people are taking in the shutdown of large parts of the U.S. economy, impacting jobs, wages, and health insurance rolls. health consumers in and beyond 2020. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).

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Health Populi

APRIL 22, 2020

Stress is up, smoking increasing, drinking more alcohol… Americans are tapping into a variety of coping mechanisms in the coronavirus outbreak, with health on their collective minds. Toluna and Harris Interactive are collaborating on the COVID-19 Barometer , publishing biweekly data on consumers’ views on the coronavirus pandemic.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

In other words, both convicted individuals and those still presumed innocent are stripped of their access to the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Estelle v.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. hospitals were losing $1.4 hospitals were losing $1.4 In other words, the U.S. ” This $1.4

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. A couple of intriguing examples: Ali Health, part of Alibaba (the e-commerce giant), launched a free online clinic in locked-down Hubei (whose capital is Wuhan) where in five days, 100,000 patients received remote consultations.

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Health Law Gurus

MARCH 11, 2020

As Pennsylvania experiences its first cases of COVID-19 (a novel form of Coronavirus), with fourteen presumptive cases at the time of this writing, the Commonwealth is taking all necessary actions to combat the spread of the disease and keep Pennsylvanians informed as to how to best protect themselves.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For the latest installment of our monthly research roundup, we reviewed studies on consumer awareness of Medicaid renewals resuming when the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) expires, integrating health equity into value-based payment models, and trends in hospital consolidation across health care markets.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

Acosta, the retail market research pro’s, updated our understanding consumers evolving as COVID-19 Has Elevated the Health and Wellness Trends of the Recent Years , results of a survey conducted among in May 2021. In the context of growing consumer-directed health in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. Patients in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2023

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. million) were home treatments for COVID-19 cases while about 1.36 million people from February 2020 to January 2023. of all recorded treatments).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

The surge in teleconsultations came after it partnered with the Philippines Department of Health and the National Privacy Commission to deliver free telemedicine services, which helped in easing hospital occupancy and preventing the spread of COVID-19. THE LARGER TREND. million patients over the past year. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2021

"Amazon Care gives instant access to a range of urgent and primary care services, including COVID-19 and flu testing, vaccinations, treatment of illnesses and injuries, preventive care, sexual health, prescription requests, refills, and delivery, and much more," the release says. In-home visits incur a fee.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The ministry collaborated with the Health Development Policy Agency and the Data and Information Center to put up the said portal, which provides access to information including those related to COVID-19 and national surveys like the Indonesian Nutrition Status Survey, Basic Health Research and Health Facilities Research.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

" Rural residents are in poorer physical condition, have more health risks and are more likely to lack health insurance, she added. "This service is integrated into our electronic health record for scheduling and billing purposes." The wage gap between urban and rural Pennsylvanians is getting wider.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. population health burden. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

This assumes that healthcare spending recovers by October 2020 as patients return to hospitals and doctors’ offices for regular care patterns. In 2021, spending would return to pre-COVID projections. medical cost trend, assuming one wave of COVID-19 resolving as regular healthcare spending resolves by January 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 pandemic will dramatically impact the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

– The Kaufman Hall Healthcare Consumerism Index provides a lens to industry performance related to consumerism, based on survey responses from hospitals and health systems nationwide. – Hospitals’ strategic priorities for consumer-centric care are not always translating to improved capabilities.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The economic and healthcare system impacts of this were explored in the Post-Covid Healthcare Landscape , delivered by Fitch Solutions’ Jamie Davies and Beau Noafshar, leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Medical Devices groups. The forecast is that these backlogs could persist “for years” in the NHS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to states about how to increase access to telehealth under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Lawrence Moss, president and CEO of Nemours Children’s Health System, in a statement. healthcare system." ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

remain home for the immediate term, our home economics blur into their personal health economics in the #COVID19 era in several respects: physically, to be sure; fiscally; and emotionally. The physical impact of COVID-19 is the first-line requiring quarantine in the #StayHomeSaveLives mode. As people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On February 4 th , 2020, in a hospital in northern California, the first known inpatient diagnosed with COVID-19 died. On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

I’ll set the context for our discussion with a few key data points describing consumers-patients-caregivers being re-shaped through the COVID-19 pandemic. These elements all impact our perceptions of safety, trust, access, equity, and empowerment for health care. and indeed, in countries already impacted by the crisis).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute. By the autumn of 2020, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While policies allow data transfer between and beyond hospitals, these protections are also "not well-established" and challenges persist in enforcing them. "In comparison to other regions, APAC markets are generally still in the early stages of developing remote care management-specific cybersecurity frameworks.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The elimination of health care inequities will require effective integration of health care systems with communities and the social safety net. than on white people.

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