Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2025

imported over $200 billion worth of pharmaceutical products in 2023, three-fourths of which come from Europe (think: Ireland, Germany, Switzerland). A study released this week conducted by Ernst & Young on behalf of PhRMA, the prescription drug industry group), calculated that U.S. pharma tariffs would raise U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

As the line chart here illustrates, health care spending spiked in 2021 following a dramatic fall during the height of the COVID-19 “pandemic disruption” from 2020 to 2022, then fell and rose again by 2023. It’s wages that U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

health system in the latest Gallup poll — earning a grade of “excellent” or “good” by American adults surveyed in November 2023. The pharmaceutical industry and health insurance companies garnered 3 in 10 people rating them as excellent/good, with nursing homes at the bottom a 2.5/10 health system.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We see the patient facing various health care touchpoints — including the hospital, wellness and medical centres, insurers, pharmacies, providers, retail health sites (both virtual and brick-and-mortar), and the home. Remember that Telehealth Is Health this Telehealth Awareness Week for 2023… and ongoing.

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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. The Report synthesizes a database covering |300M American lives and 2.7M

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. 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).

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2023

Starting 2nd June, there have been dozens of positive announcements updating research and therapies bringing hope to the 2 million new patients who will be diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. in 2023, and millions of more people worldwide. including patients living in the U.S.) mortality rate. mortality rates.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP). health economy includes employers, unions, public sector plans and other groups as well as the Patient as Payor — thus prompting NABIP’s Bill of Rights.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. We first note overall that fewer patients, year on year 2021-2023, seem willing to share data with ANY entity.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

In the program’s FAQs, one question clearly addresses this, transparently and in layperson’s terms: Q: “Do I need health insurance to use GNC Health?” ” A: “Nope — insurance isn’t needed or accepted.” Here’s the list of those top-of-mind healthcare worries for U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

More enterprise applications will be underpinned by 5G communications by 2023, none more important than those for health care. As IoT morphs into the Intelligence of Things in a world of 5G communications, it splits between “Critical IoT” and “Massive IoT” shown in the chart from CTA’s presentation.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. In 2023, it’s much harder to take care of my health, consumers say. In the U.S., that delta is 11 points worse, the second chart graphs, with the U.S.

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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. “I think that is really contributing to a lot of the angst from a patient/consumer standpoint.”

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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. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary , the first use of the phrase “health insurance” occurred in 1901. Like speaking “American,” health insurance in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2024

The bar and line chart here shows the trajectory of 3 GLP-1s from January 2021 to the end of 2023: Ozempic, by far the most-prescribed of the three medicines represented over 70% of the fills in the period; Wegovy and Rybelsus were adopted at a much lower rate by late 2023. By December 2023, there were nearly 2.6

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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 Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This appraisal was last updated September 4, 2023, and recommended that the GLP-1 medicines should be used as, “part of a package of care provided in a specialist weight management service,” adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity. Cutler compares the current unfettered U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment. health care providers could have lost as much as $1 billion a day in daily revenue during the outage (compared with 2023).

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2024

For more about the Opill’s launch and history to get to market, see my post from July 2023 here on Health Populi. ” He added, “Giving more individuals valuable information about their health, regardless of their access to a doctor or health insurance, is an important step forward in advancing health equity for U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%. Only 17% of that amount was collected falling between $7,501 and $10,000, Crowe calculated.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Nearly 30 years later, disrupting health care continues to be a theme which, in 2023, seems open for those slow-moving tectonic driving forces to finally re-form and re-imagine health care delivery. The American Hospital Association is taking disruption seriously right here, right now, as the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2024

“As more consumers become aware of digital pharmacies, understand how they work and determine that many accept their insurance, brick-and-mortar stores risk losing market share,” Christopher Lis, managing director of global healthcare intelligence at J.D. Power, explained in the report’s press release.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2023

adults ages 18 and over in September and October 2023. This isn’t just a recommendation for health care providers, insurance plans, and pharmaceutical and med-tech companies. [Spoiler alert: in the Hot Points, below, I add a fifth consideration: health equity + dignity].

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2024

Just above Senators and Congress-folk are car salespeople, advertising practitioners, stockbrokers and insurance salespeople. The only profession gaining in ethics/honesty equity between 2019 and 2023 was among labor union leaders — up 1 percentage point over the 4 years. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As of today in the U.S.,

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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.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Having a health plan and being health-insured does not mean you and your family members have access to sufficient and/or nutritious food. Connectivity is a determinant of health , we knew pre-pandemic; this SDoH factor just accelerated to a mainstream fact which is much more embraced by health care stakeholder players.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

“Elevance Health, a health insurance company? One such company I’ll check in on, which I encountered at CES 2023, is Nuvilab. New research published in JAMA on 26th December 2023 showed that pet ownership among people living along slowed rates of cognitive decline and memory among adults 50 years of age and older.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

Today and tomorrow are Amazon Prime Days, 2023 style, when you can fetch bargains on lots of electronics (esp. For other services, such as appointments and labs, One Medical accepts health plans from most insurance carriers as well as Medicare,” the pre-reveal explained, a snippet of that site shown here.

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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. million people in the U.S. according to CFPB’s recently-published Data Point report. .”

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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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ACMA Blog

MAY 21, 2024

AI’s Impact on Patient Experience and Healthcare Delivery Beyond revenue optimization, AI also plays a crucial role in enhancing the overall patient experience and healthcare delivery. Published April 3, 2023. www.revelemd.com. Accessed April 9, 2024. link] Jongsma KR, Sand M, Milota M. npj Digital Medicine.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

AUGUST 2, 2024

This prospect gives fresh urgency to questions such as what uses of patient data should be permissible, who should own the data, and how secure the data are against violations of privacy, including those covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). 12 Each effort to secure data brings new challenges.

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Arkenea

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The report also states that 31 percent of the people think that an engaging user experience is a top priority for the website design. User experience in healthcare web design plays a critical role in SEO ranking, accessibility and inclusivity, and improving patient experience.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2023

“Brick-and-mortar pharmacies forge meaningful connections with customers” through conversations between pharmacists and patients, “on a first-name basis.” Power who released the company’s annual 2023 U.S. Power’s 2023 Rankings appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Each year, J.D.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2024

While so-called recreational GLP-1 consumers may experience these benefits, this population would be less likely to be covered by medical insurance under current obesity criteria which are in use to ration access to the medicines in Germany and the United Kingdom.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Privacy laws have evolved on a national basis that have used the Washington State Privacy Law, the My Health My Data Act of 2023. Fewer employers feel compelled to provide health insurance in this environment. Health citizens value this national approach, with health baked in all public policies.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He pointed to a visit to an emergency room, where “the debt is taken on unexpectedly and in a time of crisis,” as well as consumers dealing with “complexities with insurance” (consider: out of network providers, lack of up-front cost estimates, and trauma which prevents one from “shopping” for care).

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