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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Nowhere in the top 10 most commonly provided digital tools is one for price transparency, cost comparing or cost estimating. .

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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand

Health Populi

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. There’s high demand among both decision makers and employees for a pro-health culture in companies.

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Will Trade Data for (Cheaper) Health Care – USC’s View of the Future

Health Populi

health care system. As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens.

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Patients Growing Health Consumer Muscles Expect Digital Services

Health Populi

These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. 50% want clearer, easier-to-understand medical bills.

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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

Health Populi

This is key for serving patients’ — now health care payors’ — need for primary care, mental health bundled into that on-ramp visit, and prevention to stay the heck out of the more expensive inpatient setting that has been the core business of The Hospital.

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A Portrait of the Health Consumer as Confused, Cost-Challenged, and Out of Control

Health Populi

Data illustrating that “paradox” is shown in the second chart: while 78% percent of patients told Maestro Health their health care experience is positive, 69% feel they lack control over their patient journey. Quality health care in America is too expensive, 79% of consumers said. Furthermore, one in two U.S.

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

Health Populi

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.