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Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill

Health Populi

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). In 2017, healthcare made up 18.2% Who’s responsible? Plus ça change.

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Elation Health Acquires Medical Billing Company Lightning MD

Healthcare IT Today

The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD , a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company. ” Lightning MD is a convenient billing solution focused on user experience for independent medical practices. . Their goal was to make billing easier for practices.

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Health Il-Literacy Costs

Health Populi

What does my doctor bill mean?” addresses medical bill literacy – the explanation of benefits wonkiness, the coinsurance and copayment concerns, and, simply put, what did the health insurance company cover? The consumer research was part of Accenture’s 2017 Customer Experience Payer Benchmark Survey of 10,000 U.S.

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In the U.S., Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience

Health Populi

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. Given a $60K median U.S. VisitPay conducted a poll among 1,734 U.S. One-fourth of consumers would prefer to research payment options online.

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The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles

Health Populi

The topline of this study is that average annual growth in employer premiums rose faster between 2016 and 2017, by about 5% for both single and family plans. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% Health care stress is a mainstream featured in Americans’ collective psyche approaching the 2020 election.

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Insured, Sick and Broke – The Latest on the State of U.S. Health-Insured Consumers’ Financial Health

Health Populi

This is what rationing health care looks like in America: one in two people in families dealing with a chronic health condition have difficulty affording paying medial bills before meeting a deductible, unexpected medical bills, co-payments for prescription drugs, co-payments for physician visits, and/or their monthly health insurance premium.

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.