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Mashup Score: 0Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care - HealthPopuli.com - 9 month(s) ago
Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA). Most patients have experienced at least one health insurance related barrier in the past two years, and 4 in 10 of those people…
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Mashup Score: 3The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What's Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. Every year, the PwC HRI team goes behind those numbers to assess cost inflators and deflators which underpin annual medical inflation. As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of…
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Medical costs will grow 7% in 2024 @PwCUS HRI expects https://t.co/96TM0frlXu #Healthcosts inflators= workforce #inflation (think #burnout) & #pharmaceuticals costs Deflators=#biosimilas & #homecare #telehealth See @Goodroot on #Humira #biosimilars #healthconsumers #hccosts https://t.co/B7ZQoBkcEf
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Mashup Score: 2The Latest KFF Poll on Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance Speaks Volumes About Patients' Administrative Burden - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. And those burdens impact even more people who are unwell than healthier folks. 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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New @KFF poll finds 6 in 10 people w #healthinsurance had problems dealing w #healthplans Study speaks volumes abt Patient Administrative Burden & #healthcosts compelling patients to avoid #healthcare due to cost https://t.co/NL8qdyDho2 cc @boissyad @Qualtrics #ptexp #UX https://t.co/sY1A9OsN5C
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Mashup Score: 0Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like - HealthPopuli.com - 11 month(s) ago
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. Two years later, Experian provides a look into The State of Patient Access: 2023. …
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Patients paying >#healthcare bills ID what good digital front door looks like @Experian State of Patient Access report explains #healthconsumers as payers seek >#digitalhealth tools to book, pay for & streamline #healthcare https://t.co/NgPInWHD2L #healthcosts #retailhealth https://t.co/8EFx6vwjVb
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Mashup Score: 0What $31,065 Can Buy You: a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid, a Year at Gnomon School, or Healthcare for a Family of 4 in America - HealthPopuli.com - 11 month(s) ago
“Healthcare costs came roaring back in 2021” after falling in 2020. In 2023, that roaring growth in health care costs continues with expected growth of 5.6%. For 2023, you could take your $31K+ and buy a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid auto, fund a year at the Gnomon School in Hollywood toward a degree in animation or game design, or buy healthcare for your family of 4. Welcome to this…
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What $31,065 can buy you in 2023 - Yr @Gnomon_School - New @Toyota Corolla X Hybrid - #Healthcare costs for family of 4 @millimaneb Medical Index PPO via employer-sponsored PPO finds #healthcosts much >in 2023 https://t.co/4raTMgjRcm #Healthcare luxury good w/o #transpanrecy https://t.co/dS4CEoyIHx
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Mashup Score: 2Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer - HealthPopuli.com - 1 year(s) ago
In the U.S. in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category. That’s a big rise over…
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Via @HealthCostInst 2021 #healthcare spending up w utilization & prices as >patients return to #hospitals & doctors Begs Q how #inflation will impact healthcare & #healthconsumers? https://t.co/b6UDAARRJO @OECD on #health care inflation & #healthcosts ->resilience & >taxes? https://t.co/Uguqyy7c24
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A healthy healthcare industry is key to keeping inflation down and avoiding recession, Zandi said at HIMSS23 on Friday. Despite workforce challenges and cost pressures, he’s optimistic AI and automation can help boost productivity.
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Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi: “Recession risk is high,” but not inevitable. Reducing #healthcosts is essential. https://t.co/6bODKtvrav via @HealthITNews
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Mashup Score: 0National Hospital Flash Report: March 2023 | Kaufman Hall - 1 year(s) ago
Hospital finances are beginning to stabilize as razor thin margins become the new normal. The high level of variance that plagued hospital margins over the past three years is beginning to subside among pricing and inflationary pressures affecting expenses.
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The new normal for US #hospitals is thinning to flat operating margins via @KaufmanHall March '23 flash report https://t.co/tmUvxR2kmZ LOS down, ambulatory up where outpatients drive revenue Warning: costs of goods & svces up as labor moderates #healthcosts #healthcare https://t.co/u7Syl6VDe0
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Mashup Score: 4Quick, Accessible, Inexpensive Health Care - A Retail Health Update from Amazon and Dollar General - HealthPopuli.com - 1 year(s) ago
Two announcements this week add important initiatives to patients’ growing choices that speak to their consumer-sides’ sense of value and personal healthcare cost-containment: Amazon launched RxPass, a generic medicines subscription service; and, Dollar General promoted its mobile health service powered by DocGo on demand for health visits, “right outside the store.” These two…
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What news from @Amazon #Pharmacy RxPass & @DollarGeneral @DocGoCares mobile #healthcare mean for #retailhealth & #healthconsumers Besides new riff on #mhealth this speaks to patients as payors & accessible care https://t.co/MAtKb7ICHd #healthcosts #consumerhealth #SDoH #HCldr https://t.co/lwOcMErR88
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Mashup Score: 1KFF Health Tracking Poll December 2022: The Public’s Health Care Priorities For The New Congress - 1 year(s) ago
This survey looks at the public’s health care priorities for the new Congress, including price transparency, mental health, abortion, Medicaid, and health costs. It also looks at the public&#…
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When it comes to #healthcosts, the public worries most about what individuals pay – though majorities also are concerned about costs to the nation as a whole, Medicare and Medicaid, and employers. More from our latest poll: https://t.co/NPThOjeMkT https://t.co/dbHcPcqNdL
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Nurses & doctors blame #healthinsurance plans for patients' barriers to #healthcare -- & so do patients in @ahahospitals polls 62% of patient homes faced barrier to care-->43% said health got worse as a result https://t.co/lbM8r7ZyRk #healthplans #quintupleaim #healthcosts https://t.co/QSn6xP0cHT