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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?
“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Research published in this trustworthy health policy publication covers a wide range of perspectives, including the...
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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health
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...
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Retail Pricing in U.S. Health Care? Why Transparency Is Hard to Do
“It’s the prices stupid,” Uwe Reinhardt and Gerard Anderson and colleagues asserted in the title their seminal Health Affairs manifesto on U.S. healthcare spending. Sixteen years later, yesterday on...
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An Airline, A Hospital and A Disinfectant Brand Walk Into A(n Airport)...
You’ve heard the one about three characters walking into a bar. A new collaboration between United Airlines, Cleveland Clinic and Clorox reminded me of that scenario, and that in the age of the...
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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns
In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. This...
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The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare...
The first year of the coronavirus pandemic in America was a kind of stress test on the U.S. health care system, revealing weak links and opportunities for bad behavior. “These are not just about...
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Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care
There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views...
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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii...
The best U.S. states to live in for health and health care are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland… Those are the top health system rankings...
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The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital...
“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe...
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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and...
Ten years ago, ECRI named the top 10 health technology hazards for 2013: they were alarm hazards, medication administrative errors using infusion pumps, unnecessary exposure and radiation burns from...
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There’s a New “O” in Medicine-Town – Welcome OPill to the Front of the Counter
You may not be able to get that ear-worm jingle that goes “O O O Ozempic” out of your musical mind, but I’m happy to tell you there’s a new “O” in town: the Opill. Welcome to the first OTC...
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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers —...
Nurses rank highest among various factors in the U.S. health system in the latest Gallup poll — earning a grade of “excellent” or “good” by American adults surveyed in November 2023....
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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy,...
Let’s put “health” back into the U.S. health care system. That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance...
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