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A Prescription for Change: A Path to Affordable, Equitable Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

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.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

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.

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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

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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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

The article discusses the promises and problems with a growing supply of new companies targeting the patient billing, payment, and revenue-cycle management space, most of which are painted with the brush of improving “patient experience.”

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In the U.S., Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience

Health Populi

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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The Healthcare Financial Experience is a Stressful One: the Convergence of our Medical, Retail, and Financial Lives

Health Populi

The bottom-line, literally: four in ten consumers would not pay a medical bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience. Each person interviewed was responsible for health care decisions and paying the bill at least once int he past twelve months. Cedar polled 1,239 U.S.

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Health Care Finance Leaders Look to Cut Costs and Improve Patients’ Financial Experience — Think AI and Venmo

Health Populi

30% of whom were group CFOs, 20% regional/divisional CFOs, 25% senior managers, and the remaining various flavors of financial managers. Consumers as medical bill payers seek omnichannel engagement with health care the way people do other retail touchpoints, whether banking, booking travel, or ordering groceries. Bank among U.S.