Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Only 1 in 5 health systems plans to offer a tool to help patients-consumers “get estimates for costs of care.”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Tim Calahan at Michigan Medicine joined John to discuss why migrating Epic to the cloud should be a key priority for hospitals. Read more… How Simplifying Medical Bills Improves Health Equity. Fewer than half of Americans understand how health insurance works , and are likely to skip care as a result.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. Nearly all Americans (86% net responsible) first blame health insurance companies, followed by hospitals (82%). Who’s responsible? I included this image from Tom’s Shell petrol station in that first post.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those with medical debt in the U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Having health insurance in the U.S. is no guarantee of being safe from medical debt exposure. ” Here we see that among people who have health insurance in the U.S.,

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 3, 2024

One of the most common ways for providers and healthcare organizations to run afoul is to incorrectly or illegally bill and code for services or supplies. No matter the intent, noncompliance in medical billing can have severe consequences. This mistake resulted in millions of dollars in lost revenue for hospitals.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

consumers are facing historically high levels of inflation for household spending on food, petrol, and home goods, health consumers will be dealing with greater out-of-pocket spending based on health insurance forecasts such as this latest one from Segal. For more on health care costs facing U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Charlie Byrge, Senior Vice President of Tendo Surprise medical bills can be a major headache for anyone, but they can be annoyingly common for those with high-deductible health insurance plans (HDHPs). However, these plans can leave patients on the hook for unexpected medical costs that they may not be able to afford.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2018

The concept of “ financial toxicity” for cancer patients was raised by concerned clinicians at Sloane-Kettering Medical Center, who discussed the topic on 60 Minutes in 2014 and have published papers on the issue. Beyond strong medicines, a new financial toxicity has emerged for patients due to hospital inpatient admissions.

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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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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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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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Physician Credentialing Company

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Health insurance companies also allow credentialed providers to submit claims for healthcare services. However, the question arises whether there is any condition in which a non-credentialed provider can be billed independently or under a supervising provider in medical billing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. 50% want clearer, easier-to-understand medical bills.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99 in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s. ” A: “Nope — insurance isn’t needed or accepted.”

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. That includes oral health and dental bills: 2 in 5 U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 had embedded within the law a Patient’s Bill of Rights.

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Physician Credentialing Company

MARCH 19, 2025

It is crucial to distinguish between CPT code 99283 and 99284 when coming to medical billing processes. Thus, it is utilized in cases of preliminary assessment and examination, initial investigations, and possible initial therapy without hospitalization. What are Level 5 billing criteria?

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

health consumers is with the health care system industry segments like hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — as patients differentiate between the “system” and the “people” working in it. Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S.

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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. Mason, now 17, was hospitalized for more than 100 days in Central Regional over two separate stays that year, documents show.

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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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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity. The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. POTTSTOWN, Pa. —

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 25, 2023

Under the terms of the settlement, Logan Health has agreed to create a fund of $4.3 Logan Health, formerly Kalispell Regional Medical Center, is a 622-bed health system based in Kalispell, MT, which operates six hospitals and more than 68 provider clinics in the state. A lawsuit – Tafelski, et al.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2020

economy, impacting jobs, wages, and health insurance rolls. With most Americans living paycheck to paycheck, lacking sufficient savings or liquidity to cover emergency expenses (beyond the emergency room in a hospital), fewer people can now pay a $500 medical bill, KFF found. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the challenges has been price transparency, which is the central premise of this weekend’s New York Times research-rich article by reporters Sarah Kliff and Josh Katz: Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Patients have been much more forthcoming than hospitals, the journalists have found.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tracking, overseeing, and managing the entire revenue cycle of a hospital is known as revenue cycle management. A hospital’s income cycle is universal. Mismanagement of your revenue cycle will have devastating effects for a hospital if it is ignored for an extended period of time. Here’s a mind tickler for you!

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Under the law, though, it is the insurer’s responsibility to make preventive care available at zero-cost to patients. Providers may exploit this loophole, said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor and co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University. Tell us about it !

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 8, 2023

The group claims to have exfiltrated 194 gigabytes of data, including personal information and medical records and has threatened to publish the data if the ransom is not paid. Those files contained names, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical billing information, and financial account information.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 26, 2025

In the earliest part of his career path, Tom was a young health executive at a 500-bed hospital that was part of a faith-based, Catholic health care system. Over 12 years, Tom ran hospitals in Catholic health groups and was inspired by his early mentors who were Catholic nuns in control of running these hospitals.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 30, 2025

consumers’ financial stress, an impact that will have knock-on toxic or otherwise negative side-effects on patients and families dealing with chronic conditions and facing medical bills, reinforcing the unhealthy vicious cycle of fiscal/physical health risks. Tariffs will further exacerbate U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In fact, medical bill angst in America isn’t just a December holidays thing: they’re a year-round source of anxiety, Aflac found. And those families impacted by COVID-19 were twice as likely to have someone borrow money from a friend or family member or postpone taking a family member to see a medical professional.

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. Monthly health insurance deductibles, among 44% of people.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 14, 2025

To the far right we see the longer-term cycle where consumers take over for the intermediaries who were the middle-actors between patients-as-consumers and health care industry stakeholders– whether pharmas and PBMs, physicians and hospital systems, health plans, and other sources of care, supplies, and financing.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Paul Ketchel, CEO of MDsave Over two years have passed since the hospital price transparency rule was enacted. A recent study found only 16 percent of hospitals nationwide comply with price transparency guidelines. To date, only two hospitals in the United States, out of thousands, have been fined for non-compliance.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

Some key estimates are that: The range of health insurance costs due to COVID-19 would run from $30 billion in the moderate scenario to $50 billion in the “serious coronavirus” pandemic. The moderate scenario would pressure profits but not lead to a loss for major health plans.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

While hospitals and healthcare centers have always been known for creating sterile and safe environments for patients, many consumers are still concerned about potential illnesses coming from touching payment devices. Digital Payments Are Safer for All Parties.

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