Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2025

And the proviso that this analysis cannot do sensitivity tests on, say, how the Big Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid provisions, or current wrestling for prescription drug spending, could play out in the coming months and years. For now, we can be certain that health care spending will represent at least $1 in every $5 in 2033. For the U.S.

Billing

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For an extensive review of the literature on how healthcare consumers struggle to manage their financial risk, read Peter Ubels 2019 Sick to Debt: How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care. These firms used AI driven machine learning to analyze and process the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars in medical claims.

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Medical Economics

JUNE 26, 2025

Physician burnout is improving, inching down slowly, but still not back to a 2019 level that was deemed dangerously high even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Related Videos Related Content Advertisement June 25th 2025 Physician groups reaffirm support for vaccination against flu, COVID-19, RSV June 23rd 2025 Ep. has ‘critically weakened’ U.S.

Health Care Burnout

Medical Economics

JULY 14, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the proposed 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule with new rules and a deliberate nod to independent medical practices. For the last four years, powerful interests have targeted independent medical practices,” said U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Scheduling

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This relationship is moving from master-servant to teammates NASA Langley Research Center/2019 DeepSeeks Breakthrough Sparks National Pride in China, screamed the Wall Street Journal headline last week. We might see fewer doctors, fewer drug ads, and fewer bills. Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB.

Follow-Up

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 30, 2025

A district court first sided with Planned Parenthood on the matter, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed the court’s decision in 2019, 2022 and 2024, finding Medicaid law did create an individual right that can be enforced under federal civil rights law, according to a press release from the plaintiffs.

Medical Coding

CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

Moody reports spending by providers on security management will also continue to rise, with cyber spending as a percentage of total technology budgets climbing to an estimated 7% in 2023 from 5% in 2019. Higher prices for medical services, medications, and insurance premiums directly impact patients’ out-of-pocket expenses.

Billing

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

consumers who had difficulty in making ends meet in home budgets, paying medical expenses were a challenge for 41% of people. Paying for utility bills, food, housing (mortgage or rent), and car repairs were financially challenging for over 50% of people who had trouble paying for any expenses.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 11, 2025

Preeclampsia-related medical costs in the U.S. It’s nearly impossible to pinpoint who will develop preeclampsia,” said Dr. Dallas Reed, a medical geneticist at Tufts Medicine and a member of Mirvie’s clinical advisory board. alone total an estimated $2.18 billion in the first year after birth—$1.03 billion for maternal care and $1.15

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Medical Economics

JULY 8, 2025

Reynolds Key Takeaways GLP-1 drug prescriptions for obesity have surged 587% since 2019, with a concurrent 42% decrease in bariatric surgeries, indicating a shift in treatment preferences. Check out more from Medical Economics’ sister site, Patient Care Online. SHOW MORE The top news stories in medicine today.

Hospice

Medical Economics

JUNE 17, 2025

Morning Medical Update © Dz Lab - stock.adobe.com BioNTech CEO tops Fierce Pharma’s list of Big Pharma’s 10 highest-paid CEOs BioNTech’s Uğur Şahin took the No. 1 spot on Fierce Pharma’s list of the highest-paid pharma CEOs in 2024, raking in an industry-leading $287 million — mostly from exercising stock options granted in 2019.

Medication

Health Prime

APRIL 25, 2024

In the complex world of medical billing, dealing with bad debt is an inevitable challenge that healthcare providers often face. Unpaid bills, denied claims, and delayed payments can significantly impact the financial health of a medical practice. Strategies to improve bad debt management in medical billing 1.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). The Milliman MMI team has updated the methodology for the Index; the chart shown here is my own, recognizing that the calculations and assumptions beneath the 2019 data point differ from previous years. Milliman has changed the methodology for the 2019 MMI.

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Coronis Health

MARCH 26, 2024

While you focus on delivering exceptional patient care, the intricate complexities of billing and coding can become a source of frustration. Compounding these challenges is a nationwide shortage of medical coders, reaching a staggering 30% according to the American Medical Association.

Billing

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

They rose 26%, and general price inflation by 20%, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey on employer-sponsored benefits for 2019 released yesterday. In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S.

Insurance

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.

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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. In the latest OECD report Society at a Glance 2019 , published last week, the U.S. Given a $60K median U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

The “disconnect” between health care and patient-payers is that in peoples’ everyday consumers lives, they pay bills primarily online (when the amount is due) as well as via automated payments for recurring bills. This is the modus operandi for bill payment among U.S. Mailing a paper check?

Billing

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

consumers age 18 and over in August and September 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.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Thus, even with health insurance coverage through jobs, workers are dealing with affordability issues of paying for health care as medical costs take a position crowding out other household spending like housing, utilities, and education. Those states are shown in the dark blue shade and were located largely in the southern region of the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors.

Tests

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches. CA Healthcare Provider 2,364,359 Hacking/IT Incident 57 2024 Medical Management Resource Group, L.L.C. In 2023, 79.7% of data breaches were due to hacking incidents. It is not just the number of data breaches that are increasing as the breaches are becoming more severe.

Business Associate

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Two-thirds of people want to receive medication reminders, too. In addition to wanting a higher communication standard for clinical information and self-care, three-quarters of patients also want an easy way to understand and paying their medical bills. Take Control,” a phrase which Cigna has service-marked.

Patient Experience

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

While connected fitness was gauged in 2019, the other three categories were new to the 2021 study. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.

HIPAA

NHA Now

APRIL 29, 2021

Valued Team Members Certified Billing and Coding Specialists (CBCS) are valued team members within a healthcare business ecosystem. A CBCS may have direct interaction with patients and family members, as seen in many Billing roles. Exam Preparation Becoming a Certified Billing and Coding Specialist requires dedication and focus.

Billing

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.

Insurance

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments).

Follow-Up

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

Across the various types of personal health care spending, more Hispanic people and people earning less than $50,000 a year are concerned about medical costs. Health care costs now feel like this to folks like those feeling the acute pinch of medical costs in 2020. Called Rethink, Rewire, Retire , the research polled 2,001 U.S.

Long Term Care

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). The map illustrates the density of Walmart’s Supercenters vis-à-vis the yellow dots that represent relatively higher uninsured rates.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2019

in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019. It is a broad concept encompassing hygiene, nutrition, lifestyle, environmental factors, social habits, socio-economic factors, and self-medication.” A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results. Self-care@retail is everywhere.

Billing

Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer measured the biggest gap in trust for the healthcare industry between the U.S. My hypothesis would include the growing high-deductible world where patients facing high-cost hospital bills, sometimes surprise bills due to lack of transparency of costs and/or out-of-network “gotchas.”

Hospital

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2019

Health care costs rank ahead of Americans’ money-worries about low wages and availability of cash, paying for college, house payments, taxes, and debt, according to the latest Gallup poll on peoples’ most important family financial problems in 2019.

Billing

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2019

There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. There’s more!

HIPAA

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. Healthcare costs are part of a family’s budget in 2018, and that is a sure thing for 2019 as well. That’s the top lighter green line in the first chart.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

” This question is asked and answered in a JAMA viewpoint published January 1/8 2019 titled, Humanizing Artificial Intelligence. Now, consider the root problems that the Quadruple Aim addresses: drive health outcomes, enhance the health experience for both patient and provider to prevent burnout, and lower per capita medical costs.

Discharges

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. Nearly one-half of Americans are spending more than or up to their income, and over one-third are unable to pay bills on-time. adults about views on healthcare costs.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Remember, health consumers define well-being beyond medical issues, to include emotional, social and fiscal fitness). Health care delivery in the U.S.

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