Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. Figure A shows the family health insurance premium cost-sharing between employers and workers over ten years. Even with growing inflation in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years.

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NHA Now

JUNE 10, 2020

At NHA, we always strive to provide information to support frontline healthcare workers like billing & coding specialists on their path to success, which is why we recently surveyed hundreds of healthcare employers to discover insights to help lead us into 2020 and beyond. Below are a few highlights from the report.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

adults between 23 September and 5 October 2020 — giving consumers many months of living in the context of the coronavirus. For a positive experience, consumers used words such as caring, good, time, friendly, efficient, attentive, listened, compassionate, clear, comfortable, and communication. and covers a range of issues.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the heatmap chart illustrates, health insurance ranks relatively low in peoples’ simplicity lens, akin to general insurance, media, and automotive, and below booking travel (air, train, car rental), and social media. By 2020, the pandemic-disruption was the opportunity for 3 in 4 U.S. consumers specifically.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

He is wearing his BioIntelliSense “BioSticker” which communicates vital sign metrics, used along with Philips remote patient monitoring program. We meet George and Audrey in their open kitchen-dining room space, with George finishing up a conversation with his cardiologist via a tablet.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. In 2020, Premera Blue Cross settled potential violations of the HIPAA Rules and paid a $6,850,000 penalty to resolve its 2015 data breach of the PHI of almost 10.5

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

The American Psychological Association study I cited in that post from 2020 found that financial stress was indeed contributing to Americans’ sense of anxiety and depression. It’s important to note that health care cost fiscal stress is not only a symptom for people lacking health insurance.

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Billing Insurance Customer Service Patient Experience 105

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. Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication.

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Health Prime

JULY 27, 2023

It involves obtaining approval from insurance companies before a specific procedure, treatment, or medication is administered. The prior authorization process acts as a bridge between healthcare providers and insurance companies, safeguarding the financial interests of both parties.

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Documentation Insurance Follow-Up Communication 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2022

Another one-third were concerned about this clinical claim being on their insurance record, one-fourth worried about colleagues finding out about their burnout or depression, and 22% concerned the medical profession would “shun me.” 2020, Physicians in America – Too Many Burned Out, Depressed, and Not Getting Support.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2020

adults in January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in media reports. Technology platforms can help communicate and “meet” with patients where they live — via phones (whether smartphones or texting ones) and broadband networks, connecting people with local community resources and care.

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Relias

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Direct support professionals (DSPs) typically receive low wages and have limited access to health insurance and other benefits. In 2020, our partners from ANCOR reported that average yearly turnover rates for DSPs had reached 42.8% Use open and transparent communication strategies. But what exactly makes a good supervisor?

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations. Mobile push notifications are seen as the most creepy aspect of personalization.

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HIPAA Communication Insurance Hospital 81

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S., Access to care, covering both availability (e.g.,

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Follow-Up Appointments Collaboration Communication 83

Health Prime

JULY 27, 2023

It involves obtaining approval from insurance companies before a specific procedure, treatment, or medication is administered. The prior authorization process acts as a bridge between healthcare providers and insurance companies, safeguarding the financial interests of both parties.

Documentation 40

Documentation Insurance Follow-Up Communication 40

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

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. The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019. million penalty.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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NHA Now

AUGUST 18, 2020

In our recent survey of employers in the 2020 Industry Outlook , the soft skill that's most important for pharmacy technicians isn't communication or professionalism—which also scored highly—but critical thinking. Surprisingly, it's also the most lacking.

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Relias

MAY 1, 2023

Studies have shown that healthcare workers are more prone to burnout than other professions, especially since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020. How to create effective lines of communication with employees. And direct support professionals (DSPs) are no different.

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Communication Insurance 52

ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

It is the insurance or payers’ way of controlling costs by approving or denying certain medications, procedures, or devices that may not usually be covered or is on a higher tier on the formulary. Technicians also support the pharmacist in communicating between the provider’s office and the patient.

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Medical Assistant Documentation Insurance Certification 40

ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It is the insurance or payers’ way of controlling costs by approving or denying certain medications, procedures, or devices that may not usually be covered or is on a higher tier on the formulary. Technicians also support the pharmacist in communicating between the provider’s office and the patient.

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MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Applicants can also go through NHA CCMA exam questions 2020 to get equipped with the exam pattern. Take practice tests – The medical assistants can take CCMA practice tests to identify the weaker areas that need attention. For this, the candidates can take guidance from mentors and teachers.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

adults 18 and older online in February and March 2020. In 2020, nearly one-half of consumers got the health care information they needed online compared with 34% in 2018: and, 36% received a prescription virtually compared with one-half that number in 2018. ” For the general survey of U.S.

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Follow-Up Insurance Communication Hospital 105

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

’ ” An application Programing Interface is a set of protocols and definitions allowing digital services and products to communicate with each other over the Internet. Through the patient-as-consumer lens, most Americans say they were communicating and connecting online more in 2020 than ever before, an Ipsos survey found.

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HIPAA Tests Long Term Care Admissions 118

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. billion a day in March 2020 based on declining patient volumes. economic outlook for 2020 to 2030 on July 1, 2020.

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Hospital Collaboration Billing Communication 110

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

To meet the future, Scott Melville, CEO of CHPA, described the organization’s 2020 project which is determining the categories the Association should represent. Among Scott’s many insightful comments, one really resonated with me and my health-economics mindset: on the growing presence of value-based insurance design in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2020

The latter has translated into doctors’ medical practices seeing less traffic/visits , and thus, less patient revenue, significantly impacting some PCPs’ and specialists’ businesses in the first quarter of 2020 and will do so well into the second quarter and beyond. In the COVID-19 era in the U.S., professions.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies. 40% of consumers found insurers’ communications to be relevant to “me.” On the demand side of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics had good news for American consumers long-facing inflation for household spending over the past couple of years, announcing on July 11, 2024, that the general consumer price index (CPI) fell, lowering real prices for people buying airline tickets, used cars and trucks, communication, and petrol to fill auto tanks.

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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. The goal of developing patient portal software is to keep patients engaged, increase health literacy, and build communication between healthcare providers and patients.

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HIPAA Appointments Scheduling EHR / EMR 52

Relias

JULY 25, 2023

At the beginning of 2020, we never could have imagined that the development of a vaccine for a virus would be the highlight of our year. Through all the extraordinary challenges of 2020, we learned much that can serve us moving forward. Through all the extraordinary challenges of 2020, we learned much that can serve us moving forward.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The students’ clinical experiences took a hit in the springtime of 2020. Massachusetts passed a law five years before the Affordable Care Act that said everybody has to have insurance, and we hugely expanded Medicaid. So 98% of the population of Massachusetts is insured. 5:30] They are now.

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Northwest Career College

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 2020 to 2030, the median employment of medical assistant s is projected to increase by 16 percent, much faster than average for all occupations. Communication with patients, insurance companies, and medical staff. Updating electronic health records (EHR).

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Medical Assistant Vital Signs Medication Patient Records 40

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Health insurers promise – honest…this time – to make prior authorizations less burdensome (although not, of course, to eliminate them). I first wrote about microplastics in 2020, and subsequent findings caused me to write again about their dangers at least once a year since. ChatGPT and other LLMs may be making us worse at learning.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

since first launching this consumer market research in 2018 in the Health Ambitions Study conducted in concert with Aetna — the pharmacy chain’s newly-acquired health insurance company. Still, KFF found that only 15% of women sought mental health care services during the pandemic in 2020. Stress levels among U.S.

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