Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2025
The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. That includes oral health and dental bills: 2 in 5 U.S.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Prioritizing the digital health experience, with financial health baked into the front-end and not just the back-end bill payment and ex post facto EOB from the health plan will help reverse this era of eroding trust between patient and hospital.
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2019
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.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
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.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Note that patients falling into all four of these segments believe, in the words of Lavidge, that, “companies developing health care technology care more about making money than helping patients…All patients worry that a single medical bill could severely impact their financial security.”
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
This is particularly true for health care in America, where workers have traded off wages for health care coverage for over a decade. Concerns about coverage for pre-existing conditions, the cost of medicines, and avoiding surprise medical bills are top-of-mind for Americans in this politically-charged year in the U.S.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
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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