Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The key findings in the survey of 136 health care executives were that: Digital health tools are a priority for half of the health system leaders. The post Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Medical Billing Digital Health Patient Experience Life Science 240

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Collaborations between AI vendors and biotech/pharma companies over the last five years are worth more than $45 billion , according to a recent report from Accenture. Nearly three in four (72%) patients say affordability is the biggest challenge to paying larger healthcare bills , according to a survey from Cedar.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

Pharmaceuticals 136

Pharmaceuticals Medical Billing Medicare Mental health 136

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

First, a Wall Street Journal profile of Bluebird Bio , a biotech firm that plans to sell gene-replacement therapy extending annual payments to patients based on whether the drug is effective. As the Harvard Chan-POLITICO study points out, prescription drug costs are top-of-mind for health consumers in America.

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BioTech Medicare Medical Billing Patient Experience 166

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2019

As patients have taken on more financial responsibility for first-dollar costs in high-deductible health plans and medical bills, hospitals and health care providers face growing fiscal pressures for late payments and bad debt. Over one-half of people told APA that medical bills and the cost of medications were sources of stress.

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Medical Billing BioTech Patient Experience Mental health 189

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2018

.” In the sample, two-thirds of respondents had seen a health care provider for an illness or medical condition in the past 12 months, so two-thirds of the survey sample have faced a medical encounter yielding some kind of medical bill in the past year. adults in April-May 2018 for this survey.

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BioTech Medical Billing Life Science Pharmaceuticals 120