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health care system. As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medicalbills 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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Morgan’s InstaMed team to analyze health care payments data, describing the experiences of consumers, providers and payers in the Trends in Healthcare Payments Fourteenth Annual Report. The overall takeaway for patients in this study is that health care is disconnected from consumers, in the words of the JPM/InstaMed report.
.” In his introductory remarks, Frans called out that health care is unaffordable. Eventually, he said, the medicalbill needs to be contained. This is a global challenge for health systems around the world, although a particularly unsustainable challenge for volume-driven fee-for-service payment in the U.S.
healthcare system is broken and there is a strong sense of distrust,” Lavidge asserts right at the top of the study’s press release. The Lavidge consumer study bolsters this mandate, further inspiring us to build trust in one another, with science, and with our health care providers. The erosion in trust among U.S.
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