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High Costs in Healthcare Today

Electronic Health Reporter

High-quality affordable healthcare is important to help eliminate healthcare disparities and works to improve the overall health of the population, whereas more expensive healthcare increase the disparity between health of the affluent and the less well-off. The cost of healthcare varies dramatically around the world.

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How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Primary care has long been known and recognized as a model to curb rising costs.

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Nextech Supporting the Independent Ambulatory Practice

Healthcare IT Today

In this video, Lucchini explains how Nextech addresses the pressures of being in private practice today. With higher deductibles, patients are concerned with how much treatment will cost and whether the benefits will be worth it. Bill Lucchini, CEO of Nextech , wants these independent practices to survive. Tell us what you think.

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

Health Populi

Welcome to the convergence of patients’ health care life with financial and retail lives, we learn from the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar. Note the 58% of patients told Cedar that paying for a healthcare bill was stressful. The less financially set patients are those who, If cost insecure, 32% of U.S.

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Why telemedicine must play a central role in solving the specialist shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We interviewed him to discuss the state of specialty care in the United States today, how virtual specialty care can help overcome specialty care challenges, and how providing specialty care to employers via virtual care is one solution. What is the state of specialty care in the United States today? What challenges does it pose?

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CodaMetrix Announces $40M Series B Financing to Advance Medical Coding Quality and Clinically Enrich Claims Data Through AI

Healthcare IT Today

CodaMetrix , the leading artificial intelligence (AI) solution for transforming healthcare and revenue cycle management, today announced that it has closed its $40 million Series B funding round. 1 in the “Reduce Cost of Care” category. CodaMetrix is recognized by KLAS Research as No. Originally announced March 12th, 2024

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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

Health Populi

healthcare spending. health citizens access to high-value and lifesaving meds. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies. The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., Now: consider Costco.

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