Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The 2025 convening of CES (once known as the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas officially kicks off on 7 January 2025. More granularly, Ill be looking into Sleep-tech: The square footage of CES convention floor space devoted to sleep has been significant and visible, with 2025 growing new products and sleep-tech flavors.

Scheduling

Physicians Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

of Roetzel & Andress June 9, 2025 By Austin Littrell Fact checked by Keith A. Insurance Denials and Prior Authorizations (00:11:26)** Challenges with insurance coverage, prior authorizations, and evolving insurer policies for GLP-1 prescriptions. Austin Littrell June 2nd 2025 Podcast Tom Price, M.D.,

Billing

Medical Economics

JULY 8, 2025

Industry data showed that insurers on HealthCare.gov denied about 19% of in-network claims in 2023 ; that’s $73 million out of $319 million in claims filed. For example, if you see a spike in denials from a particular insurer due to eligibility, you know exactly where to focus your front-end efforts.

Huddles/Rounds

Arkenea

JULY 23, 2025

These sophisticated platforms must navigate an increasingly complex landscape of insurance policies, regulatory requirements, and technological demands while maintaining the highest standards of data security and patient privacy.

Billing

Medical Economics

JUNE 27, 2025

Establishing medical necessity: The downstream importance of diagnosis codes Establishing a patient’s medical necessity is critical because it ensures that diagnostic tests, treatments and referrals are both clinically justified and reimbursable by insurance. were hospitalized.

Tests

Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2025

Shades of the year 2020; it’s déjà vu all over again when it comes to consumers’ most trusted brands in 2025 featured in Morning Consult’s Most Reputable Brands report. consumers’ leaning into the health and sustainability from the latest dunnhumby Consumer Trends Tracker , with data from April 2025.

Insurance

Medical Economics

JUNE 30, 2025

Most of the insurance company data that is provided to a lot of the practices is oftentimes six months or older. When you're looking at where you need to invest for infrastructure, analytics and the administrative portion of that is absolutely something that must be considered. So those concerns are absolutely valid.

Medication

Medical Economics

AUGUST 5, 2025

Innovations like virtual visits and AI technologies enhance patient engagement, communication, and proactive care, strengthening trust. Addressing patient safety concerns and engaging in candid conversations about treatment options are crucial for building trust and improving patient experiences.

Patient Safety

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

Arraying these two uncertainties on the X-Y, high-low axes, I generated four futures asking what the person – as consumer, patient, plan member, caregiver, and health citizen — would be facing in American health care toward 2030. It feels like 2030 is more like “now” than health care life was for people in the U.S.

Insurance

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners. Drive population health.

Insurance

Physicians Practice

JULY 15, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Health care practices enhance revenue by collaborating with payers for digital out-of-pocket payments, improving cash flow and patient engagement. The best models eliminate the need for a username or password by recognizing the patient simply through the QR code used or the text from which the account was accessed.

Billing

Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2025

Wealth, and Happiness – Helping to overcome roadblocks to women’s well-being , a report from the Guardian Life Insurance Company. This downward trend is especially acute for single mothers and caregivers: 42% of single moms and 38% of caregivers are living paycheck to paycheck, Guardian found in the 2025 research.

Insurance

The HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 1, 2025

In May 2025, DermCare Management, a Florida-based company that provides support services for dermatologists and dermatology specialists, notified the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) about a network server hacking/IT incident, using a placeholder estimate of 501 affected individuals as the number of affected individuals had yet to be established.

HIPAA

Physicians Practice

JUNE 27, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article The small details, like restroom cleanliness, shape patient perceptions and impact healthcare experiences in practices. That sends patients a message that the practice might be neglecting other details. Dickens of SVMIC Austin Littrell April 14th 2025 Podcast Stephen A.

Communication

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2025

With consumers the world over feeling greater financial stress in 2025, people are trusting brands more than institutions to help them both feel good and expecting them to “do” good, we learn in Brand Trust, From We to Me , a special report from the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer.

Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 5, 2025

Follow Author Aug 05, 2025, 05:23pm EDT Share Save Comment Close-up of a stethoscope on a spread U.S. All Rights Reserved. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about business model strategy and execution across healthcare. 100 dollars bills.

Insurance

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S. health consumers is with the health care system industry segments like hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — as patients differentiate between the “system” and the “people” working in it.

Insurance

Health Populi

MAY 15, 2025

consumers gauging their perspectives on uncertainties emerging out of the new Trump administration’s policy changes introduced in the first quarter of 2025. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the first quarter of 2025, U.S. The Conference Board (TCB) polled 3,000 U.S.

Communication

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2025

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Insurance

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

I’ll review these studies in this post, and discuss several potential impacts we should keep in mind for peoples’ health and care in 2025 and beyond. Start with the Ipsos Consumer Tracker for February 2025, which identified a rise in U.S. consumers feel most costs of living are up in the first quarter of 2025.

Billing

Medical Economics

JULY 25, 2025

While many patients are experiencing lower out-of-pocket costs, systemic barriers and slow adoption mean the cost-saving potential of biosimilars is not consistent or accessible to all patients. Barriers to Adoption Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) play a crucial role in determining which drugs are covered by insurance plans.

Patient Education

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

.” In this Health Populi post, I’m weaving together three just-published studies that together fill in a profile of the current state of health consumers in America — in particular, working-insured health citizens. We’ll focus on people who are working and covered with health insurance through an employer.

Insurance

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

While this report hit the virtual bookshelf about six months ago, I am revisiting it on this first day of the second quarter of 2025 because of its salience in this moment of uncertainties across our professional and personal lives — particularly related to health politics, global economics and trade, and the erosion of trust in institutions.

Collaboration

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

elections, on probably policy and market impacts that we can expect in 2025 and beyond. insured consumers’ perspectives on prescription drug pricing and the role of PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers). 9 in 10 insured Americans felt that prescriptions are more expensive in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.

Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2025

Consumers around the world feel more invested than ever in what makes people feel both well and prosperous, we learn in the NielsenIQ Global State of Health & Wellness 2025 survey report. But there’s a trust deficit that must be healed in order for a health consumer to invest in services and products that feed health and well-being.

Unit Organization and Environment

Practice Index

MARCH 6, 2025

Best of our blogs Practices will need to find 550m due to salary changes, says the IGPM - Using the Salary Calculator in the HUB, practices have been able to estimate the impact of the upcoming increases to the National Living Wage and National Insurance on their practice budgets. Read now What is a Practice Manager worth?

Transfers

Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2025

consumer at a point in time — late April 2025 — reminding us more than once during the hourlong session that, “Everything is constantly changing.” consumers as of April 25, 2025. consumer data presented byJohn Dick, Founder and CEO of CivicScience. adults has been on the downturn since November 2024.

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

If you went shopping for something that cost $35,119 in 2025, which would you most value? A new 2025 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid with some extras on board? In the past year we can see that, while the MMI percent change was higher than consumer price inflation by a factor of nearly 4 times, the rate of growth slightly fell from 2024-2025.

Billing

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JULY 14, 2025

While clinical care receives a lot of attention, many healthcare organizations are recognizing a less obvious contributor to positive patient experiences – foodservice. The Role of Food in Healing—and Scoring Patients often report that meals are among the few things they can control during a hospital stay.

Patient Satisfaction

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

as a “health insurance company” evolving to its vision as technology-informed health care. “People think of Humana as insurance company but we feel we’re more about integrated health care…(We’re) trying to make the pivot as a health partner, a tech company delivering health care.

Insurance

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2025

adults believe that denials and delays of health care services by health insurance companies are a major problem. Another lens on this issue looks at Americans by household income and primary insurance coverage, which you might surmise could yield significant differences across these fiscal demographics. For health care in the U.S.,

Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

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.

Medication

Physicians Practice

JULY 22, 2025

Yet positivity is one of the few levers leaders can pull without waiting for an insurer, a legislator or the Fed to act. Reynolds July 18th 2025 Article These six simple strategies will boost morale and enhance productivity for your medical practice staff every Friday afternoon. 11 tips for onboarding new practice staff Keith A.

Billing

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

.” And across all technologies assessed in this study, it was AI and machine learning that the health care finance execs pointed to as a top-three investment priority, followed by improving the patient experience (among 37%), and automating business processes (32%). Banks experience. Bank explained in the report.

Billing

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

per average internet user per month in 2025, $3.18 Health Populi’s Hot Points: As experience and service become mantras in health care @ retail, it’s useful to call out a recent announcement from VSP, among the largest eyecare insurance providers. Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36 for Americans.

Insurance

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.”

Acute Care

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

hospital sector is facing major challenges on all fronts: staffing (especially nursing and more broadly, clinician burnout), supply chain, financial stressors, demographics, and cross-industry politics vis-à-vis pharma and health insurance. markets by 2025 and planning for 1,000 by 2027.

Hospital