Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 30, 2025

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Medical Coding

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 2, 2025

Home Warranty Cost Best Home Appliance Insurance Best Solar Companies Best Solar Panels Cost Of Solar Panels Solar Tax Credit By State Are Solar Panels Worth It? Cohen Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare To Preempt Government Action, Insurers Say They’re Fixing Prior Authorization By Joshua P.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2025

Home Warranty Cost Best Home Appliance Insurance Best Solar Companies Best Solar Panels Cost Of Solar Panels Solar Tax Credit By State Are Solar Panels Worth It? At first people were intimidated by robotics’ advancement,” Dr. Joseph Nathan, ForSight’s cofounder, president and chief medical officer, told Forbes.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 11, 2025

Home Warranty Cost Best Home Appliance Insurance Best Solar Companies Best Solar Panels Cost Of Solar Panels Solar Tax Credit By State Are Solar Panels Worth It? Preeclampsia-related medical costs in the U.S. Best Home Warranty Companies Cheapest Home Warranty Companies Are Home Warranties Worth It? alone total an estimated $2.18

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2025

Follow Author Aug 10, 2025, 08:58am EDT Share Save Comment LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 16: A photo illustration of 'Ultra Processed' foods on February 16, 2018 in London, England. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Nearly one-half of Americans are quite concerned they won’t have enough money to pay for medical care, according to the latest Gallup poll. Health insurance in-security is mainstream as of November 2018, when Gallup polled U.S. adults about views on healthcare costs. Gallup conducted this survey among 1,037 U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

This is what rationing health care looks like in America: one in two people in families dealing with a chronic health condition have difficulty affording paying medial bills before meeting a deductible, unexpected medical bills, co-payments for prescription drugs, co-payments for physician visits, and/or their monthly health insurance premium.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies.

Insurance

Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S.

Medication

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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. Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S. health care system.

Insurance

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

Discharges

Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

Have I been neglecting the medical literature? “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should make establishing payment codes for products involving women’s heart disease a priority to prompt private insurers to cover new service lines.” Insurers will be forced to raise rates to cover this new charge.

Tests

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

De-Escalation

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

but one issue is on the mind of most American voters where there is evidence of some agreements: health care, as evidenced in the June 2018 Health Tracking Poll from Kaiser Family Foundation. Top-line, health care is one of the most important issues that voters want addressed in the 2018 mid-term elections, tied with the economy.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2019

The average 65-year old couple retiring in 2019 will need to have a cash nest-egg of $285,000 to cover health care and medical expenses through retirement years, Fidelity Investments calculated. Fidelity estimates the average retiree will allocate 15% of their annual spending in retirement on medical costs.

Long Term Care

Scrubs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Just this year alone, we’ve seen some of the largest and most alarming healthcare data breaches in history, including those related to the American Medical Collection Agency, insurer Dominion National, and Inmediata Health Group, just to name a few. The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There’s no mistaking that more Supercenters are located in areas with greater levels of people without insurance based on data from 2019 (Walmart store location count) and 2018 (uninsured rates). This week, too, The Wall Street Journal analyzed the impact of insurer-owned retail clinics’ potential threat to hospitals.

Hospital

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

Health care features prominently in the nearly-300 slides curated by Mary Meeker in her always- informative report on Internet Trends 2018. Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins, released the report as usual at the Code Conference, held this year on 30 May 2018 in Silicon Valley. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. Since starting GreatCall Rides with Lyft in 2018, three-fourths of the pilot riders have continued to patronize the service as repeat riders.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

2023, OCR reported a 239% increase in hacking-related data breaches between January 1, 2018, and September 30, 2023, and a 278% increase in ransomware attacks over the same period. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc.

Business Associate

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

consumers rank supermarkets, fast food chains, retailers, and banks as their top performing industries for experience according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings. The post What Would Healthcare Feel Like If It Acted Like Supermarkets – the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Postal Service.

Patient Experience

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Among stresses facing people at least 50 years of age, health care costs rank top of mind compared with other issues like long-term care, health insurance, Social Security, taxes, and being read to retire. Note that projected health care costs in retirement grew 23% in the four years prior to 2018, according to EBRI.

Long Term Care

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. That is a 4.1% increase from the 2019 estimate, about twice the rate of U.S. That is a 4.1%

Medication

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. medical trend growth projected for 2019 that will impact healthcare providers, insurers, and suppliers to the industry. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0% economy by 2026.

Medication

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But consider the statistic that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of 65,500 physicians expected in 2020, and 90,400 in 2025. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. This is sobering through just the N=1 physician lens.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. consumers’ frustrations — above managing the costs of care not covered by insurance. 39% of consumers would consider receiving treatment for minor medical events in a retail clinic.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). The key points of the report are that: Health care costs are growing at a slower pace, although up-ticked from last year’s trend: in 2018-19 costs grew 3.8%, and last year 2017-18 the growth rate was 2.9%. will cost $28,386, a 3.6%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And note how Americans’ trust in hospitals — historically the top-trusted health care segment in the nation — eroded from 2018, tying with consumer health companies, and just north of biotech and life science organizations. .” Yet it’s health care costs that rank top in U.S.

Billing

Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%

Documentation

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Health insurers in the state are now allowed to offer plans with limited benefits, escaping the rules for plans in the Affordable Care Act that provided for a list of covered benefits. David Cameron, the state’s Director of Insurance, called this strategy, “pushing the envelope” in an interview with NPR last month.

Admissions

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to this year’s 2022 Milliman Medical Index , which annually calculates the health care costs for a median family of 4 in the U.S. I perennially select two alternative purchases for you to consider aligning with the MMI medical index. MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166.

Medication

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Here’s the latest arithmetic on American workers’ financial trade-off of wages for health care insurance coverage: in the ten years since 2009, family premiums have risen 54% and workers’ contribution to health care spending grew 71%. Larger companies are more likely to offer health insurance to workers than smaller companies.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. The government currently covers nearly 50% of all healthcare payments (Federal combined with State for Medicaid share), with commercial insurance covering the other half. voters’ minds these days.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs. National health spending in the U.S.

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