Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

Patients in the U.S. assume the role of payor when they are enrolled in high-deductible health plans. People are also the payor when dealing with paying greater co-payments for prescription drugs, especially as new therapeutic innovations come out of pipelines into commercial markets bearing six-digit prices for oncology and other categories. For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations i

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Doctors Accountability Medical Services Hospitals 111

Beterra

APRIL 1, 2019

Healthcare improvement leaders used to rely on dated survey results and expensive third-party consultants for improvement strategy, best practices, and insights—usually to confirm hunches they already had, but couldn’t prove. While surveys are still useful and necessary, consultants can take up a large chunk of an already thin-stretched improvement budget.

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Healthy Debate

APRIL 4, 2019

Endometrial cancer: Women with obesity are at higher risk for the deadliest of gynecologic cancers. But they face longer waits for diagnosis and treatment.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S. adults 18 and over in January and February 2019. One in three Americans overall are concerned they won’t be able to pay for health care services or prescription drugs: that includes 35% of people who are insured, and 63% of those who do not have insurance.

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Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Hospitals Quality of Care 98

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Today, April 2nd, is National Employee Benefits Day. Who knew? To mark the occasion, I’m mining an important new report from MetLife, Thriving in the New Work-Life World , the company’s 17th annual U.S. employee benefit trends study with new data for 2019. For the research, MetLife interviewed 2,500 benefits decision makers and influencers of companies with at least two employees. 20% of the firms employed over 10,000 workers; 20%, 50 and fewer staff.

Population Health 52

Population Health Medicare 52

Healthy Debate

APRIL 3, 2019

Hospitals at reduced capacity: Less and less-experienced staff. More patients. Why do we think it's safe to run hospitals on banker's hours?

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Hospitals 52