Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The big gap in supply to patients vs. demand by health consumers is highlighted by what the arrow in the chart below points to: managing payments and paying bills. Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills.

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Billing Medication Follow-Up Patient Experience 96

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Across all providers, AmWell scored highest at 885, followed by Doctor on Demand with 879 points. Cigna, the highest-scoring payer-backed telehealth organization, racked up 874 points on the 1,000-point scale. Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019.

Physical Exams 147

Physical Exams Customer Service Follow-Up Insurance 147

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008.

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Billing Insurance Customer Service Patient Experience 105

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. With high health spending and lower life expectancy dollar for dollar, financial and health in-security will surely be voters’ priorities in 2020.

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Insurance Billing Medication Follow-Up 113

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

As an Index, the MMI combines several line items of healthcare spending to make up the overall number, and this methodology allows us to compare the rising costs of care for a family of 4 covered by a PPO year to year.

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Medication Follow-Up Billing Insurance 78

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The major rise in HIPAA violation penalties in 2020 was largely due to a new enforcement initiative by OCR targeting non-compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access – the right of patients to access and obtain a copy of their healthcare data. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc.

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Business Associate HIPAA Unit Organization and Environment Hospital 111

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. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO) appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Patient Satisfaction Follow-Up Patient Experience Communication 87

Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

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%. There was slower prescription drug cost growth this year of 2.1%, less than half the rate of last year’s 4.5%.

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Insurance Follow-Up Hospital Billing 83

Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).

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Communication Insurance Follow-Up Medication 79

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S. Digging into the health care cost concerns, the Foundation asked people about their health care affordability cost thresholds — that is, their ability to pay medical bills for an unexpected illness before they hit a personal financial crisis.

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Follow-Up Billing Insurance Medication 54

Health Prime

JULY 27, 2023

Prior authorizations (PAs) play a crucial role in medical billing, ensuring that healthcare providers receive efficient and proper reimbursement for the services and treatments they provide. Create a centralized database or use specialized software to track authorization requests, their status, and any necessary follow-ups.

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Insurance Documentation Follow-Up Communication 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

approaches the 2020 Presidential election. 84% of Americans told the Foundation that they were concerned about how much health care costs will affect them in the future, with 42% of patients saying they couldn’t afford to pay over $500 for an unexpected medical bill. The Physicians Foundation surveyed 2,001 U.S. Exacerbating U.S.

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Hospital Follow-Up Billing Medication 54

Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Bill payment and finances feature is integrated within the patient portal to not only eliminate duplicate entries and clogged workflows but also to maintain healthcare price transparency. Bill Pay and Finances Bill pay and finances are integrated with the patient portal for streamlined payment processes for the patients and providers.

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Appointments Scheduling Billing Communication 52

Healthcare Law Insights blog

MAY 17, 2023

One study of cosmetic surgery data found that body procedures like tummy tucks, buttock augmentation, and liposuction increased by 63 percent from 2020 to 2021. [1] 1] Facelifts were up 54 percent. [2] 2] And breast procedures were up 48 percent. [3] 3] According to that study, Americans spent over $14.6 at ¶¶ 55–62. [8]

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Billing Follow-Up Medication Hospital 52

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

You may have wanted to work in a particular specialty, had your sights set on the traveler lifestyle, or were focused on making sure you could pay the bills, give your kids a good life, and plan for your eventual retirement. For LPNs/LVNs , the decision to return to school can directly relate to wanting more career mobility.

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Acute Care Follow-Up Certification Billing 52

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

OCR stepped up enforcement of compliance with the HIPAA Rules in 2016, more than doubling the number of financial penalties imposed. The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR.

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HIPAA Business Associate Hospital Medication 85

Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Novel Treatments for Anxiety Disorders Among antipsychotics, as of 2020, the only FDA-approved anxiety treatment is an older medication called trifluoperazine, which has the same problem with tardive dyskinesia following prolonged use ( Garakani et al.,

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Medication Billing Communication Patient Education 52

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To study how FPA affects the racial and ethnic diversity within the NP workforce, the researchers used data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on practitioner enrollment in Medicare from 2014 to 2020. This is followed by Hispanic, which has gradually increased, growing from 22.7% in 2014 to 24.5%

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Admissions Follow-Up Billing Communication 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In my responses to these questions, I talked about the following, sharing some links with you that underpinned my remarks. I noted this Morning Consult survey , data shown here, finding that people of color who were lower-income as of June 2020 had a more difficult time paying for Internet and phone bills than white people with lower incomes.

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Huddles/Rounds Follow-Up Collaboration Patient Experience 62

Health Prime

JULY 27, 2023

Prior authorizations (PAs) play a crucial role in medical billing, ensuring that healthcare providers receive efficient and proper reimbursement for the services and treatments they provide. Create a centralized database or use specialized software to track authorization requests, their status, and any necessary follow-ups.

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Insurance Documentation Follow-Up Communication 40

The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In November, 2023, Brynjolfsson teamed up with fellow West Coaster, Robert M. Would you be willing to provide full and complete de-identified access to all of your vital signs, lab results, diagnoses, external and internal images, treatment schedules, follow-up exams, clinical notes, and genomics?

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Vital Signs Customer Service Follow-Up Medication 67

Medical Advantage

MARCH 8, 2024

Practice management: Provides a single real-time medical billing dashboard to track all claim and appointment-related tasks, helping to maintain schedule density and optimize practice operations. athenaCollector : Streamlines the process of billing, collections, and patient payments.

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Appointments Billing Scheduling Patient Care 52

ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Pharmacy Billing Specialist (PBS) : Typically, specialty pharmacies utilize a PBS to optimize the billing process through their knowledge of billing regulations and healthcare system codes. This is done following the health plan’s formulary or the criteria for a specific medication, device, or procedure being requested.

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Medical Assistant Documentation Certification Medical Coding 40

ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

Pharmacy Billing Specialist (PBS): Typically, specialty pharmacies utilize a PBS to optimize the billing process through their knowledge of billing regulations and healthcare system codes. This is done following the health plan’s formulary or the criteria for a specific medication, device, or procedure being requested.

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Medical Assistant Documentation Insurance Certification 40

MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Different categories of medical assistant certifications- Medical assistant certifications can be of the following type- a) Distance learning – In distance learning, the candidates learn their syllabus online over a period at the comfort of their home. They must maintain privacy by following the HIPAA compliance guidelines.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older. Middle-income, 23%.

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Insurance Billing Follow-Up Medication 79

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. I’ve provided links to the many sources so you can follow up as you wish, based on your own lens on this important convergence. Across income groups among likely U.S.

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Follow-Up Collaboration Billing Medication 112

Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In 2020, researchers from Ireland, the U.S., AHRQ defined each of the domains as follows: Safe — avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them. Quality frameworks will need to continue to evolve to keep up with these societal challenges. What’s missing from the Six Domains?

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Follow-Up Documentation Billing Acute Care 98

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The top challenges in patients seeking care noted in the first chart related to paying for treatment, following by mental and emotional well-being. On the demand side of U.S.

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Follow-Up Communication Appointments Insurance 66

Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. most recently in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bottom line, he said, was the need to prevent bad actors from, “seiz(ing) on medical debts as a major moneymaking enterprise.”

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Medication Billing Insurance Follow-Up 62

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

” Medscape underscores that in 2020, 31 million U.S. Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system.

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Insurance Follow-Up Hospital Medication 71

Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020. It also minimized human errors by ensuring an optimized medical billing process. Online payments allow patients to self-manage their bills and balances.

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HIPAA Appointments Scheduling EHR / EMR 52

The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

The second story is a particularly unpleasant tale of provider greed and bad behavior, which I was alerted to by the wonderful sleuthing of former New Jersey state assistant director of heath benefits Chris Deacon, who is one of the best follows there is on Linkedin. Plenty more stories like it in a Reddit group reacting to the article.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

with about 60 days leading up to the 2024 Elections, we might assume there are no “purple” areas of agreement between the Red (Republicans) and the Blue (Democrats) thinking in PANTONE color politics. He led the creation of the Northwell Health’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention in 2020.

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Follow-Up Hospital Medication Billing 62

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The CFPB will also continue to monitor medical debt, and for good reason: this Kaiser Health News research program has been highlighting providers’ lawsuits suing patients for unpaid bills, such as this column asking, “Will your hospital sue you?”. One in three consumers pointed to prescription drugs as the highest spending category in U.S.

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Insurance Medication Patient Experience HIPAA 62

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Clearly, digital transformation is top-of-mind for healthcare organizations pondering their workforce strategies for 2020. The second barrier to building out digital strategies is cost, followed by finding and retaining talent, that scarce human capital secret-in-the-digital-sauce. Their poll of consumers found that 7 in 10 U.S.

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Medication Follow-Up Hospital Billing 77

Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

looking to the November 2020 Presidential and Congressional elections. adults’ perspectives on health care, and this month’s January 2020 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll explores Americans’ views on broad healthcare reform plans and specific medical policy issues. Cummings Lower Drug Prices Now Act, House Bill #H.R.

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