Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

Standard & Poors analysts developed a pandemic-economic model to gauge the potential medical costs in the insured U.S. 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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices. Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

Consumers are concerned about their ability-to-pay for all kinds of bills, shown in the bar chart. Most concerning are credit cards, utilities, auto loans, insurance, and mobile phone bills, with mortgage and rent and medical bills (which are worrisome for 1 in 4 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The report’s insights are based on surveys FMI has conducted over the past two years, as the Foundation has observed that consumers broadening their definition of health to include emotional health, energy levels, and sleep quality. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction. A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers.

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Hall Render

APRIL 22, 2022

Bright Health’s financial, legal woes continue to mount. Colorado’s COVID public health order extended a month, but you probably won’t notice. Hospitals in Colorado Springs see an increase in health care workers. Nuvance Health promotes Bethel resident to human resources role for seven hospitals in CT, NY.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. CISA warns of ransomware threat targeting healthcare, medical organizations. Connecticut ditches $20M health information exchange software. Two Health Insurers Grilled for Proposing Rate Increases of 20 and 25 Percent.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

.” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. healthcare system. People may be sick of being sick nationally and globally.

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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.

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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

million for youth mental health care KENTUCKY Pike County nursing home officials release statement following loss of Medicare agreement Three Humana executives drop $11.2M million for youth mental health care KENTUCKY Pike County nursing home officials release statement following loss of Medicare agreement Three Humana executives drop $11.2M

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

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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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Margaret’s files Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Peru, Spring Valley hospitals Why an Illinois hospital CEO laid off 20% of its leadership Illinois Department of Public Health predicts the outlook for the COVID-19 virus Tough choices at Memorial Health HSHS says system outage caused by cyberattack Physician convicted in $9.5M

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Private payers spent $1.87B on social determinants of health over 5 years: 5 things to know. will keep Covid public health emergency in place at least until mid January. Beebe Health buys Mobile Health Clinic to reach underserved residents in Sussex County. Delaware extends Public Health Emergency another 30 days.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

million to benefit South Side and south suburban communities in fiscal 2022 INDIANA Beacon Health announces hiring freeze, pay cuts for employees Carmel-based NICO Corp.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency. Bill would use CMS’s Five-Star system to punish consistently 1-star nursing homes. Covenant Health in Hobbs to resume services after water, rodent concern. Low-income New Mexicans may not know about law protecting them from medical bill collections.

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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. million additional Americans signed up for coverage.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

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Hall Render

MARCH 8, 2024

city pays hospital system $450K to settle over $1M in EMS claims 18 Wisconsin hospitals named to Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals in the U.S.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

Here’s what’s going on CT hasn’t spent millions budgeted for health care, human services Opioid theft in nursing homes ‘concerning,’ data shows Connecticut health care spending outpaces economic growth Hartford HealthCare Named one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Innovative Companies DC D.C.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

NATIONAL Biden plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring in a major shift to federal response Biden administration will end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11 Can a drugstore be your only doctor? Danbury, New Milford hospitals to discuss CT nursing homes are requesting more money.

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

Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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.

Prescription Drug Pricing 67

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Two medical groups move to reopen it California bill would enable community colleges to offer BSNs California medical office building evacuated following equipment fire Cedars-Sinai’s Priselac Announces Retirement Eskaton downsizes amid $13.6

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Hall Render

JANUARY 20, 2023

for obesity rate, is getting heavier Medical Properties Trust Sponsors Children’s of Alabama Primary care group makes major local acquisition, doubling footprint in state ALASKA Juneau’s hospital is losing more than $1M a month Alaska’s flu season appears to have peaked. To Pay $1.5M

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One-half of people age 18 to 64 have received a surprise medical bill they thought would be covered by insurance, and one-third say that the ability to pay for care they need is the most pressing issue in American healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The vast majority of the most seriously ill patients in the U.S.

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

Cloud Hospital names Chief Quality Officer Tampa’s Lions Eye Institute adopts new name Troubled Cano Health records $60.6M Here’s what it means. Connecticut is weighing several changes to Medicaid.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say. This whole world is rough, it’s just getting rougher.

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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. But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

See the second chart, reported in a recent study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Being Seriously Ill in the U.S. . Note that over one-half of people who were ill had serious problems paying at least one type of medical bill, from hospitals and prescription drugs to the doctor’s office and ambulance services.

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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. Jeanne founded ClearHealthCosts nearly ten years ago, having worked as a journalist with the New York Times and other media.

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Hall Render

MARCH 15, 2024

assisted technology for colonoscopies Sanford Health found non-compliant in nine areas according to ND agency Sanford Ambulance reports high call volume, worries about workforce retention OHIO Christ Hospital Foundation taps a new president following Rick Kammerer’s retirement Cincinnati Children’s awarded $2.6

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. One of the basic questions in studies like these is whether a consumer could cover a $500 medical bill with their current savings. Underneath that general number, more white adults than non-white consumers could cover the $500 bill from traditional checking or savings.

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Hall Render

MARCH 1, 2024

in 2023 income Ransomware group leader told hackers to attack hospitals, FBI, HHS say The 23 health systems pushing Congress to act on virtual care Three examples of how AI is going to change medicine U.S. KXAN investigates Does UT Tyler Health Science Center’s deal with private equity shield doctors from malpractice suits?

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

How Nonprofit Hospitals, Health Systems Compensate Executives. Encompass Health’s home health unit attracts acquisition interest-sources. COVID-19 cases dwindle, but Alabama lawmakers continue push for public health reform. State health officer reflects on progress 2 years into pandemic.

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