{"id":17654,"date":"2021-02-11T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17654"},"modified":"2021-02-11T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T16:48:16","slug":"doctor-visits-were-down-in-2020-but-hsa-spending-was-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17654","title":{"rendered":"Doctor visits were down in 2020 but HSA spending was up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the doctor and hospital visits were down in 2020, there were significant increases in health savings account spending. According to a new report from Lively, Inc., an HSA provider, \u201cchange in consumer behavior due to COVID-19 and shelter-in-place orders that lead to a considerable decrease in nonessential procedures and visits.\u201d However, \u201cprescription drugs were up 32 percent and chiropractic care was up 20 percent partly tied to the pandemic.\u201d In Nicole Spector\u2019s article appearing on www. finance.yahoo.com, she writes how COVID-19 changed how and whether we take care of ourselves. Read Ms. Spector\u2019s article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/pandemic-changing-way-health-savings-114224950.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJpV5Qqrnhe0F27ejQdT4GRjKq2Oo8G__gURCPkleZmUzQCzdwVyOlVQpzK23lkM3hX8bzVJ-BBX9-jP-qylphplkPbi5pSrbgeF8dIjVTqAVauPbCyM652YCQMsC0-1E6JHCLIPs_TsU4IZRH2WMXU09o2Weng12Bv6j5gB1RAs\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9837\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the doctor and hospital visits were down in 2020, there were significant increases in health savings account spending. According<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42,29,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-employer-healthcare","category-hras","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17655,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654\/revisions\/17655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}