Health Populi

JULY 24, 2025

As I tracked home-bound consumers’ behaviors from the start of COVID-19 in March 2020, I hunted-and-gathered data from Nielsen, Acosta, Circana, Gallup, Harris, and other sources of consumers @ retail. The DIY food-health concept, coined by Nielsen, was the build-up of our “pandemic pantries.” Overall, 3 in 4 U.S.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JULY 9, 2025

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 25, 2025

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 7, 2025

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 20, 2025

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

This year, we learn that outpatient care and pharmacy were the two line items most responsible for driving the PPO cost up to over $35K: pharmacy costs rose 9.7% making up 28% of spending, pharmacy (one in $5 of spending, inpatient (hospital) care constituting 17% of spending, and other line items at 2% of the remainder.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

The good news for health care costs for a family of four in America is that they fell, for the first time in like, ever, in 2020. The first chart shows how health care costs declined in our Year of COVID, 2020, by over $1,000 for that hypothetical U.S. up, compared with the largest cost increase across categories in 2020 of 7.2%.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. In 2020, that $12K+ represents over 18% of the median household income in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. 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. In the study, J.D.

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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. 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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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

In the report, published in April 2020, IQVIA mined the company’s many data bases that track real-time data, including medical claims, flu data, sales data, oncology medical and pharmacy claims, formularies, among other sources. Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S. health care. health care.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. 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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This role of patient-as-the-payor crosses consumers’ ages and demographics, and is heating up health care as the top political issue for the 2020 elections at both Federal and State levels. Four in ten consumers said their monthly health insurance premiums were increasing. health politics looking toward November 3, 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election.

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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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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%. The employer contribution is the subsidy a company pays to cover a worker’s health insurance premium.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Some people could not work from home due to the nature of their jobs requiring up-close-and-personal human touch; other workers lacked households with broadband or WiFi connectivity, limiting their ability to do work tasks that could have been remotely accomplished. As a result, more people in the U.S. Those of us in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In their study conducted in December 2020, U SA Today polled 1,020 adults age 18 and over in the USA TODAY/Public Agenda Hidden Common Ground Survey. The poll found that nearly all Americans point to the following goals are important: Making health are more affordable for ordinary Americans. Lowering the cost of prescription drugs.

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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

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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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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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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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In addition to financial penalties, covered entities are required to adopt a corrective action plan to bring policies and procedures up to the standards demanded by HIPAA. . It is the responsibility of each covered entity to ensure that HIPAA Rules are understood and followed. Tier 1: Minimum fine of $100 per violation up to $50,000.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

When a new technology or product starts to get used in a market, it follows a diffusion curve whose slope depends on the pace of adoption in that market. The first chart from the CDC illustrates that dramatic growth in the use of telehealth ratcheting up since the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the U.S.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

billion (or 60% of its total revenues) represent clinical and business services provided to United’s Health Insurance business. United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum. It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

health care consumers, followed by waiting for insurance pre-approvals (cited by 72%), using pre-determined treatments based on scientific evidence of similar cases (aka protocols or clinical guidelines (noted by 50% of consumers), and electronic health records (among 30% of people).

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Hims and Hers will invest in a Columbus, Ohio-based mail order pharmacy to be operational in 2020, featuring customer support and fulfillment centers. Up to now, the companies have been working with third-party pharmacies to pick-and-pack medicines for consumers looking to support their gender-specific wellness needs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

By party, nearly all Democrats agree with the negotiating power by the Feds, followed by 4 in 5 Independents and almost as many Republicans. The graphic shown here from Ginger Szala’s review calculates the cost increase since 2000 for prescription out-of-pocket costs (covering generic, brand, and specialty drugs), up 272%.

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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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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In November, 2023, Brynjolfsson teamed up with fellow West Coaster, Robert M. Minorities, women, infants, rural populations, the uninsured and under-insured, and the poor and disabled are all glaringly under-served. expect to offer in return for universal health insurance and reliable access to high quality basic health care services?

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Many healthcare providers may prescribe treatments that are not considered routine or may be expensive, an insurance company may need prior authorization (PA) to determine whether they will cover what the healthcare providers recommends 4. The healthcare provider must get approval from the insurance company.

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CareerStep

JUNE 7, 2024

Despite the demand for these essential workers, one out of five healthcare employees have completely left the industry since 2020 and some 47% of these workers have plans to quit within the next two years. Have clear values and follow them. Even more important, follow those values and live up to your organization’s mission.

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