Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Reports and Other News Nearly all consumers (95%) want an easier way to pay medical bills , and 75% of consumers say their doctors don’t take an intuitive approach to billing, according to a Flywire survey. Oh, and the company kicked off the summit by announcing Oracle Health intends to become a QHIN.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 1, 2024

Close to half of adults said they received a medical bill or a copayment for a service that they expected to be free or covered by insurance. | Close to half of adults said they received a medical bill or a copayment for a service that they expected to be free or covered by insurance.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 2, 2018

Nearly one-third of respondents said they had to choose between paying for a medical bill and food or heat. More Americans are afraid of paying for their healthcare than becoming seriously ill, according to a new poll conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and West Health Institute.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). Who’s responsible? Plus ça change.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 1, 2023

consumers say they can’t afford to pay their medical bills on-time, based on the 2023 Consumer Survey from Access One, a financial services company focused on healthcare payments. Furthermore, one-third of consumers are not confident they could pay a medical bill of $500 or more. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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. adults struggling to pay for health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

While 57% of doctors think patients miss appointments due to insurance issues , and 34% think it’s lack of access to appointments, a Tebra survey found the real reasons that patients skip appointments are work conflicts, not feeling well, and facing transportation issues.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 25, 2019

More than eight and 10 Americans see insurers as the largest contributor to surprise medical bills, according to a recent poll. Morning Consult, a research and technology firm, surveyed 1,500 registered voters between May 31 and June 1 and released the findings this week.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. For this research, Kantar conducted online surveys among employers (1,201 companies) and employees (2,000 workers) in June 2023.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

This report compiled quantitative data from payments processed on the InstaMed network amounting to some $656 billion in healthcare payments in addition to results from three qualitative surveys that Qualtrics conducted polling consumers, providers and payors in 2023. Mailing a paper check?

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

Note that nearly 1 in 2 of high-income Americans, earning at least $100,000 a year, had had health care debt in the past five years, shown in the first chart from the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Care Debt Survey. ” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt? . health citizens.

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ACA Times

DECEMBER 31, 2015

One in five (20%) working-age Americans with health insurance say problems paying medical bills often force them to work longer hours, take a second job, spend less on food, use up their savings, borrow from family or friends, or seek help from a charity.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bank fielded a survey among 200 senior health care financial leaders in the U.S., Another way to reduce costs of administration in health care operations is to move from paper to electronic formats — long overdue in the eyes of patients who are increasingly dealing with medical bill paying as payers for out-of-pocket expenses.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2022

health consumers are avoiding or delaying health care, replacing concerns about COVID-19, based on survey research from Qualtrics. The company’s Healthcare Cost of Living survey research learned that 48% of U.S. Qualtrics conducted the survey in August-September 2022 among 1,000 U.S. Rising costs are the #1 reason U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. What is not commonly discussed is that medical bill problems are very common among people who have insurance and not only the uninsured. It’s true to say that in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Patients “yearn” for personalized services and relationships in health care — optimistic that technology can help deliver on that hope — we learn in Healthcare’s Future: Balancing Progress and Perception , a health consumer survey report from Lavidge. Lavidge, a communications consultancy, polled U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Interestingly, 70% of patients also viewed their clinical notes in 2022, newly-measured by the ONC survey. Test results are far and away the most important online personal health information for consumers to access, consistent from 202.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. Gallup and West Health have been studying Healthcare in America , finding in their June 2022 consumer survey that one in four people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Studies and Surveys Nearly 80% of patients say the billing experience is important when choosing a provider , according to a report from Salucro Healthcare Solutions. Additionally, two-thirds of patients said they prefer text or email reminders about their bills, while demand for contactless payments has doubled in two years.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ninety percent of patients surveyed said that provider loyalty depends on the patient financial experience. adults with unpaid medical bills say they’ve had a provider deny them care due to that medical debt, leading many to put off care. The Survey is Short and Easy: Longer surveys are more likely to get abandoned.

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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. Most Americans want government to do more to help them, the OECD survey found. Given a $60K median U.S. VisitPay conducted a poll among 1,734 U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

consumers, found in the latest Beryl Institute-Ipsos Px Pulse survey published for July 2023. GNC is channeling to the current concerns of health consumers… value in the eye of the beholder and medical bill payer. Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. Only 6% of workers in this survey said they would not be willing to share their PHI for any reason.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

A new survey of independent medical practices and billing companies has found that they are leaning heavily on telehealth to keep generating income. The survey, which was conducted by Kareo, connected with more than 600 medical practices and 140 medical billing companies.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

are more likely to avoid care than men in America, Deloitte found in the consulting firm’s latest survey on consumers and health care. consumer survey in February and March, 2024. Women in the U.S. Deloitte coins this phenomenon as a “triple-threat” that women face in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

This results of the consumer and provider surveys combines those corporate interests, discussed in this report. You may know the name Experian as one of the largest credit rating agencies for consumer finance in the U.S. You may not know that the company has a significant footprint in health care and financial technology.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2018

Meanwhile, 40 percent said they skipped a recommended medical test or treatment. Some 86 percent of those surveyed said they’re covered either through their employer, have insurance they purchased directly, or through government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Brian Doyle, SVP at Rectangle Health Recent cyberattacks in the industry caused significant disruptions in healthcare claims processing and billing, impacting physicians, patients, and insurers. Compassionate Approach Patients facing medical bills can feel anxious.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This third chart comes out of the book, built from data from the S tress in America survey annually conducted by the American Psychological Association. Note that health care stress is felt regardless of income, whether above or below the median family income in America. This new year is a U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

In light of a recent survey indicating that 31% of consumers expect remote care to be available for space travelers by 2053, DrFirst announced its patent-pending iPrescribe 3-D printer cartridge for printing commonly prescribed medications in space.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

at the time of this writing), process medical payments across the health care ecosystem, and published the company’s 2021 Healthcare Payments Insights Report. The Elavon consumer survey also covered patients’ views on affordability — where concerns remain high. Two-thirds of U.S. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB). People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

“We believe this integration will have a powerful impact for the healthcare industry, improving financial solvency and efficiencies for providers through more accurate medical billing, resulting in potentially more reimbursement, faster.”

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