Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Using AI to improve efficiency was a key theme, as was making imaging more mobile to improve the patient experience. They also touched on how organizations should prepare for a move to the cloud. Read more… How Simplifying Medical Bills Improves Health Equity.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

What does my doctor bill mean?” addresses medical bill literacy – the explanation of benefits wonkiness, the coinsurance and copayment concerns, and, simply put, what did the health insurance company cover? and “which doctor can I see?” deal with the in/out-of-network uncertainties.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For further details on how to forecast the next couple of years for health and consumers, you can check out my post, the Health Populi TrendCast for 2025, here.

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Mend

JUNE 8, 2022

Today, patients prefer convenient payment options to stay on top of medical bills. Fortunately, there are ways to automate healthcare payments to make life easier for your patients and practice. Here’s Why Your Practice Should Automate Medical Billing. Increase Patient Privacy. billion in 2021.

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Mend

AUGUST 22, 2022

Learn how to solve telehealth connectivity issues with the latest innovations in technology. If you’ve ever experienced telehealth connectivity issues, you already know how frustrating it can be for your practice. After all, if you can’t easily connect with your patients, delivering virtual care can be challenging or impossible.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

has known how to deliver. Unless these legislative proposals are signed into law by summer 2024, the nation will have lost precious time to assure health citizens and providers alike that they can receive health care when and how they need it. We have the opportunity to modernize U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Invest in staff training to equip your front desk to answer questions around how billing codes translate into dollar amount owed, why certain visits cost more or less than others, and how to navigate insurance coverage. Patients are comfortable paying their bills when confidence emanates from the front desk.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They must also think carefully about what it takes to deliver an outstanding patient experience—including digitally—in a post-COVID world, where consumers expect digital access and support at each stage of their care journey. But finding the right approach is key.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers. Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Importance of the Patient Financial Experience Patient loyalty is vital to an organization’s bottom line and brand reputation, but it is increasingly more challenging to come by. Ninety percent of patients surveyed said that provider loyalty depends on the patient financial experience.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

By dismantling the barriers women have identified, together we can create a future where women don’t have to make the difficult choice between maintaining their health or maintaining their financial wellbeing.”

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Mend

JULY 12, 2022

They can also access their health information online, schedule appointments, and manage bills. When it comes to digital payment options, a recent Instamed study showed that 91% of consumers prefer an electronic payment method for their medical bills. Then, they are recorded in the payment management system. View The eBook Now.

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This approach can boost staff productivity, drive faster revenue cycles, and create a more rewarding patient experience. In this article, we’ll explore the hybrid healthcare system and how you can strike the optimal balance in your practice. Mend starts by integrating with your organization’s medical billing software.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While not every aspect of medical care is shoppable, many factors are research-able and in doing so, bolsters a persons health literacy and empowerment. How to re-build trust in health/care?We

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). ” The post How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

So the challenge for mainstream working householders, shopping for value-priced groceries and managing utility costs and the price of filling a gas tank to get to that job — how to pay for health care? That is, if those patients-as-health-consumers can vote with their feet and pocketbook.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes. Some ways to do this are to offer better patient portals, expanded hours, improved access, and clear procedure pricing.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

health citizens are highly concerned about their personal out-of-pocket costs for medical services and insurance, as well as prescription drug coverage. This links to protecting coverage with pre-existing conditions and surprise medical bill concerns, as well. And that is health citizenship-bonding patient experience.

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