Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. There have been many versions of so-called “patient’s bills of rights” over the years.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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Amber Pharmacy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

14, 2023) – In honor of Amber Specialty Pharmacy’s 25th anniversary, the specialty pharmacy provider has launched Vitality, a new six-month transplant recovery program to help support patients and caregivers during the post-transplant period, which is considered the most critical time for those patients.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

This report compiled quantitative data from payments processed on the InstaMed network amounting to some $656 billion in healthcare payments in addition to results from three qualitative surveys that Qualtrics conducted polling consumers, providers and payors in 2023. This is the modus operandi for bill payment among U.S.

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Health Prime

JUNE 20, 2024

According to the 2023 ACHE’s Top Issues Confronting Hospitals survey , workforce challenges emerged as the foremost concern for hospital CEOs, ranking number one on their list of priorities. Attempting to balance administrative tasks and providing the best patient care can add to physician burnout and reduce patient visits.

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Health Prime

MAY 2, 2024

According to The State of Mental Health in America 2023 , 28% of all adults with a mental illness reported that they were not able to receive the treatment they needed. there is only one mental health provider for every 350 individuals , reducing the possibility of patients getting the care they need. At Health Prime, we can help!

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The bottom-line, literally: four in ten consumers would not pay a medical bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience. adults ages 26 and over via an online study conducted in April and May 2023. Note the 58% of patients told Cedar that paying for a healthcare bill was stressful.

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CollaborateMD

MAY 15, 2023

Our interconnected and customizable solutions such as Updox, Charge Capture , DrChrono, CollaborateMD , and HealthWatch provide healthcare providers with the tools they need to take patient experience and efficiency to new heights! The post HIMSS Global Conference 2023: Top Trends and Takeaways appeared first on CollaborateMD.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

consumers, found in the latest Beryl Institute-Ipsos Px Pulse survey published for July 2023. GNC is channeling to the current concerns of health consumers… value in the eye of the beholder and medical bill payer. Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Keep that relationship in mind in the context of a new forecast from Kaiser Family Foundation estimate the 2023 cost for employer-sponsored insurance for a family to reach nearly $24,000 in 2023. Health Populi’s Hot Points: According to the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar, 58% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. This year, I opted for a 2025 Subaru Forester and a year’s tuition for a New Mexico resident living off-campus for 2023-24 attending University of New Mexico. Health care costs for an “average” person covered by an employer-sponsored PPO in the U.S.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Overcoming these obstacles is crucial for maintaining operational effectiveness, preserving financial stability, and improving the patient experience. Labor shortage in healthcare billing Labor shortages are not exclusive to 2025; however, they seem likely to continue this year. million healthcare workers by 2026.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Maintaining operational effectiveness, preserving financial stability, and improving the patient experience rely on overcoming these obstacles. Labor shortage in healthcare billing Labor shortages are not exclusive to 2025; however, they seem likely to continue this year. million healthcare workers by 2026.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Overcoming these obstacles is crucial for maintaining operational effectiveness, preserving financial stability, and improving the patient experience. Labor shortage in healthcare billing Labor shortages are not exclusive to 2025; however, they seem likely to continue this year. million healthcare workers by 2026.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

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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Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

On April 11, 2023, three of the largest U.S. consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. ” The Commonwealth Fund data in the bar chart tells us that many patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB). adults 18 and over in February and March 2023 who had health insurance across different plan types.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024. The most prevalent use of automation across over one-half of the health care leaders’ organizations is with billing processes, appointment scheduling, patient check-in, staff scheduling, and clinical data entry.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. Most striking in the Edelman 2023 research was the finding that more consumers trusted peer voices – friends and family – on par with medical experts, and well above the advice of national health authorities and global health authorities.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue. And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins.

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ACMA Blog

MAY 21, 2024

However, navigating the complexities of RCM can be challenging, with billing errors, claim denials, and inefficiencies leading to financial losses and administrative burden. Detecting and Correcting Billing Errors Billing errors are a prevalent issue in healthcare, often resulting in delayed or denied reimbursements.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

between 2023 and 2032. Specifically, medical providers must invest in robust telehealth solutions to facilitate virtual consultations, remote patient monitoring, and seamless patient communication. Patient engagement encompasses a spectrum of interactions between patients, their families, and healthcare providers.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

AUGUST 2, 2024

For example, instead of hiring a billing specialist and also a scheduler, they might hire an AI biller and scheduler for a fraction of the price,” he said. “It’s ” Questions of Patient Privacy While the benefits may be transformative, the risks of Gen-AI for health care stakeholders are considerable as well.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023. Life expectancy in the U.S. These will now be in place until the end of 2024. Life-Years?

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. Some recent signposts in research update our understanding of the patient-as-payer, such as the latest Aflac WorkForces Report 2023-24 on benefits and financial wellness in this 13th annual research study.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2024

“Only the very richest households in society have food bills close to the cost of obesity treatment. In 2023 and 2924, obesity met its match quoting from the Science magazine cover lauding weight loss drugs as breakthrough of the year.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

This digital transformation speaks to the importance of paying for health care regardless of whether services happen between patient and provider face-to-face in real-time, via video calls on-screens, or during an audio-only telehealth visit (a clinical phone call). Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2024

times greater than drugs pulled for men’s health risks between 1980 and 2023. Another aspect of the female/male health gender gap related to research and pipelines is the finding that global drug withdrawals due to women’s health risks were 3.5

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Entering 2023, U.S. Our unifying human field theory starting off 2023 is being sick of being sick. Financial health beats physical health priorities entering 2023. We enter 2023 with home economics setting our tables as a context for our overall health and well-being. 2023’s journey toward value in health care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2025

For example, Companies spent more than $1 billion on ads for weight loss and diabetes medicines in 2023, up 51% from the prior year, according to new data from advertising analytics firm MediaRadar. There is also a relationship between the top-revenue generators among prescription drugs in the U.S. That’s nearly 15% of drugmakers’ $7.6

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