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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

As the Harvard Chan-POLITICO study points out, prescription drug costs are top-of-mind for health consumers in America. As patients continue to morph into consumers who pay for health care services, they are seeking price transparency — but not finding it so easy.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov. s health, hospital chief says Raising Ky.’s

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Gallup Reveals Americans’ Views on Industry Are the Lowest Since 2008 – Implications for Healthcare and Pharma

Health Populi

in the second half of 2022, families and households faced financial stress that strained peoples’ ability to make ends meet… and that included health care, as 5.7 million more Americans lost health insurance during the Great Recession era.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Jane Sarashon

health care micro-economy and how health costs will crowd out other household spending in 2024 Consumers’ financial health blurs (or sometimes bleeds) into their personae as patients: CivicScience has tracked a direct relationship between peoples’ perceptions of financial health and one’s overall well-being.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

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