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?

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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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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 21, 2025

CA Health Plan 12,224 Unauthorized Access/Disclosure Mailing incident involving mailing vendor (Billing Documents Specialists) Shipping labels contained Social Security numbers. Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in its PACS and gained access to sensitive patient data and medical images. PIH Health, Inc.,

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Medical Economics

JUNE 9, 2025

Analyzing Medicare claims from 2019 to 2023, researchers found that primary care physicians (PCPs) who adopted a full-risk, multipayer VBC model in 2022 — with operational support from agilon health — saw an average of eight more new Traditional Medicare patients in 2023 than similar peers who remained in fee-for-service models. Price, M.D.

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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

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).

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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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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.

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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). 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.

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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.”

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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.

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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!

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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. 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

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 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.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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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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MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

Medical marketing, and particularly pharma marketing, is a major business in America and big slice of the “Mad Men” advertising industry. Employers cited several main tactics to address coupon cards looking forward from 2019 to 2022. In contrast, employers have used rebate payments to defray premium costs).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One contributor to lackluster return-to-healthcare volumes is patients’ forgoing care due to cost — which Trilliant Health points out has overtaken COVID-19 concerns as the key driver for avoiding medical care services. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019. Since then, OCR has been cracking down on entities that have failed to provide individuals with timely access to their medical records. Hackers had access to the system between April 2019 and January 2020.

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Physicians Practice

JULY 9, 2025

These videos are 5 to 10 minutes in length and will provide practical ideas and suggestions that have been tested in his practice or used by other physicians that significantly improve the efficiency and productivity of their medical practices. Dr. Baum is Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Together, the two reports from J.D.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Since last week I wrote about medical debt in the U.S. The NBA finished its 2019-2020 season in a bubble, with players, staff, and media quarantined, playing in empty arenas. It’s not surprising that we end up with all that medical debt. publication ( The New York Times ) reported on it. In a nutshell, a Paris football (a.k.a.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2023

Health plans would also boost consumers’ satisfaction by channeling patients’ access to the kinds of medical providers that align with consumers’ preferences and personal values, and by personalizing information to steer people toward lower-cost care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Publix announced that it would launch its 13th in-hospital pharmacy in August 2020, at the Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, FL. The company invested $67 million in affordable housing in 2019, which built 2,200 homes in 24 cities in six states. Supermarket News offered more details on the program.

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MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Featured Programs: Sponsored School(s) Purdue Global Featured Program: Medical Billing and Coding Certificate Request Info Liberty University Featured Program: Associate of Applied Science – Medical Office Assistant Request Info Rasmussen University Featured Program: Medical Assisting Diploma program Request Info Who Is A Medical Assistant?

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