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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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Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

Health Populi

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. The post Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

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The Expectation Gap Between What Patients Want Vs What They Get

Health Populi

In addition to wanting a higher communication standard for clinical information and self-care, three-quarters of patients also want an easy way to understand and paying their medical bills. Less than half say they’re currently getting that support from health care providers. Satisfaction outweighs loyalty.

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Patients Growing Health Consumer Muscles Expect Digital Services

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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. Healthcare Consumer Experience Study.

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The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles

Health Populi

Health care stress is a mainstream featured in Americans’ collective psyche approaching the 2020 election. As the graph shows, APA found that many aspects of health care in America stress most people out, from the cost of insurance to medical bills — and changes to health care policy emanating from Washington.

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Sicker Consumers Are More Willing to Share Health Data

Health Populi

What drives people to engage on their patient journeys has a lot more to do with practical matters of care like convenience, cost, and bedside manner, Deloitte says, than what the firm terms “bells and whistles. Specifically, 50% of health consumers search to see their providers are in-network, to avoid surprise medical bills.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.

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