2023, Medical Billing and Patient Experience

Simplifying Medical Bills to Improve Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The following is a guest article by Mona Deora, Certified Medical Billing Specialist at BillingFreedom Records are very important in any health facility but for the patient, they can be a nightmare when it comes to access and analysis. How to Simplify Medical Bills? Lets Explore the Survey Results!

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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The Healthcare Financial Experience is a Stressful One: the Convergence of our Medical, Retail, and Financial Lives

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The bottom-line, literally: four in ten consumers would not pay a medical bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience. adults ages 26 and over via an online study conducted in April and May 2023. Note the 58% of patients told Cedar that paying for a healthcare bill was stressful.

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Consumers Are So Over Their Paper Chase in Health Care Payments

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

This report compiled quantitative data from payments processed on the InstaMed network amounting to some $656 billion in healthcare payments in addition to results from three qualitative surveys that Qualtrics conducted polling consumers, providers and payors in 2023. That garners only 5% of patients’ preferences.

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GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

consumers, found in the latest Beryl Institute-Ipsos Px Pulse survey published for July 2023. GNC is channeling to the current concerns of health consumers… value in the eye of the beholder and medical bill payer. Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99

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Medical Debt: “The Debt of Necessity” – A Current U.S. Picture from the CFPB

Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

On April 11, 2023, three of the largest U.S. consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. ” The Commonwealth Fund data in the bar chart tells us that many patients in the U.S.

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Financial Stress and Mental Health: Considering the New $24,000 Health Plan Cost from KFF

Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Keep that relationship in mind in the context of a new forecast from Kaiser Family Foundation estimate the 2023 cost for employer-sponsored insurance for a family to reach nearly $24,000 in 2023. Health Populi’s Hot Points: According to the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar, 58% of U.S.

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Medical Debt, Aflac on Eroding Health Benefits, the CBO’s Uninsured Forecast & Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices: A Health Consumer Financial Update

Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. And most Americans believe it would be more important to forgive medical debt than student debt, found in this June 2024 poll from the University of Chicago and NORC.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.”

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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A 2025 Subaru Forester, a Year at U-New Mexico, or a Health Plan for a Family of Four: the 2024 Milliman Medical Index

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

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Checking the Pulse: Current Payment Technology Trends Impacting the Healthcare Industry and What to Expect in 2023

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Improves the patient experience. Rising costs have placed more of the financial burden on patients. In fact, 1 in 11 adults delay or go without medical care due to cost reasons, according to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

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Access Healthcare Acquires Envera Health

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With delivery capabilities across upstream and downstream processes, Access Healthcare is uniquely positioned to unlock insights derived from operational processes to prevent claim denials, maximize collections, and enhance the overall patient experience. Originally announced October 12th, 2023

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The Latest KFF Poll on Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance Speaks Volumes About Patients’ Administrative Burden

Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

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). adults 18 and over in February and March 2023 who had health insurance across different plan types.

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Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

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.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

This digital transformation speaks to the importance of paying for health care regardless of whether services happen between patient and provider face-to-face in real-time, via video calls on-screens, or during an audio-only telehealth visit (a clinical phone call). Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital Finances

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

So, patients-as-payers and health consumers told AKASA, which is in the business of revenue cycle management, that quality and choice were worth a premium or enhanced charge on their medical bill. Robert Pearl’s latest post in Forbes magazine titled, Saving US Healthcare From a Disaster Worse Than Covid-19.

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How AI Can Optimize Accounts Receivable Management

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2024

Moreover, from January 2022 to June 2023, the median health system’s drop in cash reserves was 28% and the number of days cash on hand dropped from 173 to 124 days. In a recent survey , 90% of patients surveyed said they would like to know their payment responsibility upfront, while only 20% understand what they will owe after an appointment.

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Inbox Health Raises $22.5 Million Series B to Support Rapidly Growing Patient Billing Communications Platform

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2023

Today, more than 2,600 medical practices across the U.S. million patients have used the platform to pay a healthcare bill. The Series B announcement follows news that Inbox Health’s billing technology was awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in April 2023.The

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Improving Patient Financial Engagement: A Tech-Driven Approach

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2024

The study found that six out of 10 also focus on improving patient experience, with 55% combining both goals by targeting enhancing the patient payment experience. Patients often find medical bills confusing and difficult to understand, making them hesitant to pay.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Entering 2023, U.S. Our unifying human field theory starting off 2023 is being sick of being sick. Financial health beats physical health priorities entering 2023. We enter 2023 with home economics setting our tables as a context for our overall health and well-being. 2023’s journey toward value in health care.

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The Women’s Health Gap Is Especially Wide During Her Working Years – Learning from McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, and AARP in Women’s History Month

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2024

times greater than drugs pulled for men’s health risks between 1980 and 2023. Another aspect of the female/male health gender gap related to research and pipelines is the finding that global drug withdrawals due to women’s health risks were 3.5

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Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

CFPB has assessed how Americans “make ends meet” year after year, this round finding that American consumers’ overall financial stability and well-being eroded from 2023 to 2024.

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Simplifying Medical Bills to Improve Health Equity

The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

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The Healthcare Financial Experience is a Stressful One: the Convergence of our Medical, Retail, and Financial Lives

Consumers Are So Over Their Paper Chase in Health Care Payments

GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem

Medical Debt: “The Debt of Necessity” – A Current U.S. Picture from the CFPB

Financial Stress and Mental Health: Considering the New $24,000 Health Plan Cost from KFF

Medical Debt, Aflac on Eroding Health Benefits, the CBO’s Uninsured Forecast & Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices: A Health Consumer Financial Update

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

A 2025 Subaru Forester, a Year at U-New Mexico, or a Health Plan for a Family of Four: the 2024 Milliman Medical Index

Checking the Pulse: Current Payment Technology Trends Impacting the Healthcare Industry and What to Expect in 2023

Access Healthcare Acquires Envera Health

The Latest KFF Poll on Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance Speaks Volumes About Patients’ Administrative Burden

Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital Finances

How AI Can Optimize Accounts Receivable Management

Inbox Health Raises $22.5 Million Series B to Support Rapidly Growing Patient Billing Communications Platform

Improving Patient Financial Engagement: A Tech-Driven Approach

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

The Women’s Health Gap Is Especially Wide During Her Working Years – Learning from McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, and AARP in Women’s History Month

Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health

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