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.
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.
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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
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.
Health Populi
APRIL 1, 2024
That’s twice as many patients who would prefer to pay their health care bills on doctor’s or provider’s websites versus online through their health plan’s website (19%). Mailing a paper check? That garners only 5% of patients’ preferences.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Another way to reduce costs of administration in health care operations is to move from paper to electronic formats — long overdue in the eyes of patients who are increasingly dealing with medical bill paying as payers for out-of-pocket expenses. AI can help here, too.
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