Medical Economics

JULY 1, 2025

The new model follows an announcement by CMS leaders to work with health insurers on sweeping reforms to the PA process that has delayed care, consuming vast amounts of time of physicians and other clinicians pursuing approvals before delivering treatments. “Low-value Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Kennedy, Jr.,

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

If you missed it read Part 1 & Part 2 By JEFF GOLDSMITH Two major changes in health insurance ensued as the US health system entered the 21 st century- a strategic shift of health cost risk from providers to patients and the emergence of machine driven managed care. Some 60% of hospital bad debts are now from patients with insurance.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 16, 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? Chief Editor, Communications Strategist, and Executive Health Coach Follow Author Jun 16, 2025, 04:59pm EDT Share Save Comment San Ramon, California, November 22, 2019.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 30, 2025

Plaintiffs argued the executive order violated a federal “free choice of provider clause” that guarantees Medicaid beneficiaries the right to choose their doctor, so long as they are qualified and accept the insurance. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing the majority opinion, said the law provided no such explicit guarantee.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

The findings also point out that much of the costs result from the burden and time associated with dealing with specific practices that insurers have put in place around prior authorization and delays in payments. Higher prices for medical services, medications, and insurance premiums directly impact patients’ out-of-pocket expenses.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

.” In this Health Populi post, I’m weaving together three just-published studies that together fill in a profile of the current state of health consumers in America — in particular, working-insured health citizens. We’ll focus on people who are working and covered with health insurance through an employer.

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Medical Economics

JULY 18, 2025

And what we have seen in the United States, and that in 2019 report from the CDC, that 35,000 Americans die annually, again, die annually from an antimicrobial resistant infection, which are predominantly bacteria in origin. And in that evolution, they're like, look, something's trying to kill me.

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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? Between 2019 and 2024, investment in women’s health grew by 200%, but it still accounts for only about 2% of all healthcare investment.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In 2024 the average annual health insurance premium for family coverage is $25,572, split by 75% covered by the employer (just over $19,000) and 25% borne by the employee ($6,296), shown in the first chart from the report. companies’ spending on workers’ health care. will indeed keep on keepin’ on.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a bill passed initially in 1996, consists of a set of rules and regulations that protect the privacy and security of health information and provide individuals with certain rights to their health information. The article What is Considered a HIPAA Breach in 2019?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2019

who have health insurance must take on a deductible of some amount, which compels that insured individual to spend the first dollar on medical services up until they meet their financial commitment. Consider a 2016 Aflac survey asking consumers what their ideal health insurance shopping experience should feel like. ” Amen.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 16, 2019

With AI increasingly playing a role in healthcare, and the cost of insurance continuing to rise, it’s no surprise that people might be feeling a little bit disillusioned and confused as to what to expect this year. The article What To Look Out For In The Healthcare Industry During 2019 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

Now that the 2019 health insurance Open Enrollment period has concluded, healthcare industry stakeholders are watching closely for any shifts in consumer behavior regarding enrollment and the overall uninsured rate. After a record drop in the uninsured rate from 2008 to 2016 in response to […].

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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

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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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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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Sensible Medicine

JULY 29, 2024

In 2019, I wrote about the provocative book Elephant in the Brain --co-authored by George Mason economist Robin Hansen. He cites the Rand , Oregon and Indian health insurance studies, which all find little to no effect of giving health insurance to people.

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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

MARCH 29, 2019

Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S. LIMRA wrote up this analysis in honor of National Women’s History Month as it draws to a close this month of March 2019. But one issue that brings U.S. Health Care Costs , a poll conducted by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H.

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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. The post What $285,000 Can Buy You in America: Medical Costs for Retirees in 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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. As they will also be top-of-mind for U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 12, 2020

By the end of the first quarter in 2019, investment records had already broken new records, and went on to surpass $3 billion, coming second […]. The article How The Use of Insure Tech Can Help Businesses Preserve Their Employees’ Health appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. By 2015, it was $2.5

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Amazon down 8 points.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

adults in August 2019 regarding 25 issues concerning health care and digital technology. One-third of Americans would opt into using a personal monitoring system 24/7 by an insurance company or health care provider in exchange for lower-cost insurance. The Center analyzed the perspectives of 1,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In 2019, it appears that patients have backslid, according to the 2019 Healthcare Consumerism Index from Alegeus. adults in September 2019 on issues concerning health care costs, shopping, value, saving and spending. The first chart shows that the 2019 Index fell from 60.1 points in 2018 to 57.9 households.

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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. For this study, Nationwide polled 1,462 older adults age 50 and over with at least $50,000 of investable assets in March and April 2019.

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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. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

Laurie also pointed out that both men and women are Apple Watch consumers, with nearly one-half of purchases made by women in 2019. The older adult consumer segment for Apple Watch adoption has the greatest growth, increasing 15% in 2019. largely made by older men, by 2019, women liked them too – and nearly half of the watches are.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

All categories of health care costs were lower in 2020 versus 2019, with the exception of prescription drugs. Each year, I figure out what the average PPO cost could buy someone in exchange for that health insurance. The team also calculated annual health care costs per individual, which are expected to be $6,516 in 2021, about 7.6%

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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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2023

” HealthEdge’s latest research into health consumers’ perspectives finds peoples’ satisfaction with their health insurance plans lacking, with members seeking easier access their personal health information, high levels of service, and rewards for healthy behaviors.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2021

trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. health care administrative spend that could be freed up to, for example, cover more peoples’ health insurance or extend food benefits to bolster nutrition security and prevent physical wasting during cancer treatment for a person enrolled in Medicaid.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019. Overall, the telehealth segment achieved a higher consumer satisfaction score (860 points out of 1,000) than other sectors J.D.

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