Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 17, 2024
More than 40% of adults have medical debt, mainly affecting marginalized groups such as Black and Hispanic individuals, women, parents, and the uninsured. The financial burden of healthcare extends far beyond medical bills. Patients often face unexpected costs, such as deductibles, co-pays, and surprise medical bills.
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.
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Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 4, 2024
The ban has been opposed by ACA International, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Medical Group Management Association, and the American Hospital Association. A Big Change There’s no question that the healthcare industry is experiencing a medical debt crisis.
Health Populi
MARCH 3, 2025
The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.
Health Populi
JUNE 20, 2022
” Medical debt crosses age groups and race/ethnicity: while two-thirds of people who are Black and Hispanic in American had medical debt in the past five years, over one-half of White patients did, too. Here’s an additional detail showing the mainstream, Main Street nature of medical debt in the U.S.:
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
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. This is particularly true for health care in America, where workers have traded off wages for health care coverage for over a decade.
Health Populi
APRIL 1, 2019
For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. Given a $60K median U.S. VisitPay conducted a poll among 1,734 U.S. One-fourth of consumers would prefer to research payment options online.
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