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Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action

Health Populi

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. The average monthly mortgage payment was $1,759 in mid-2022. Back in that day, “1 family in 3 got a hospital bill” and “A doctor bill came with each hospital bill…most likely for surgery.”

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. is getting fuzzier by the day.

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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

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This research is part of a collaboration program called Diagnosis: Debt from Kaiser Health News (part of the Kaiser Family Foundation) and NPR. “Instead, they’ve faced thousands of dollars in bills as health insurers shifted costs onto patients through higher deductibles.”

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What the Walmart Exit from Primary Care Means

The Healthcare Blog

Or, as some suggested, Walmart’s clinics could have been a potential entry point into a yet-to-be-acquired Medicare Advantage plan (Humana or CIGNA were both in play), or a collaboration with MA giant, United Healthcare. Whatever the benefits expected, early losses far exceeded forecasts.

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Most Consumers Are Health and Wellness Consumers, Even in Hard Financial Times, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

To this point, a relevant Accenture report published earlier in 2022 was titled, The Human Paradox: From Customer Centricity to Life Centricity. As patients continue to morph into health consumers and medical bill payers, they will seek value-based care based on their own values, customers, preferences, and beliefs.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

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have not returned to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022. The chart here from the Unraveling Health trend discussion illustrates this point, showing a big jump from 2020 to 2022 in the share of consumers deferring care due to cost — from 17% to 31% of patients avoiding care. That’s the demand side.

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The Patient as Prescription Drug Payer – The GoodRx Playbook

Health Populi

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. Gallup and West Health have been studying Healthcare in America , finding in their June 2022 consumer survey that one in four people in the U.S.