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Healthcare Bills, Affordability, and Self-Rationing Care Will Continue to Challenge U.S. Health Consumers in 2024

Health Populi

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

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feel their well-being or healing was negatively impacted by difficulty paying for their medical care. 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. One in two consumers in the U.S. Cedar polled 1,239 U.S.

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Consumers Are So Over Their Paper Chase in Health Care Payments

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As we start the month of April 2024 in the U.S., 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.

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Flurry of AI, Partnerships, and New Features Announced at Epic UGM

Healthcare IT Today

Explaining Medical Bills. An AI-powered chatbot will be available in the future through Epic’s Hello World platform that will help explain complex medical bills to patients. Early response has been positive with some patients commenting how the generated responses are more empathetic than prior communications.

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Bonus Features – October 29, 2023 – 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care, and 28 more

Healthcare IT Today

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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Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

Health Populi

That’s the title of a new report that captures the results of a survey conducted in January 2024 among 1,516 employed Americans who received employer-sponsored health insurance.

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Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The deal only appears to involve the trade show – next slated for March 11-15, 2024 in Orlando – and makes no mention of smaller HIMSS events (in-person or online) or the Healthcare IT News or MobiHealthNews publications that HIMSS Media owns. News HIMSS is planning to sell its annual conference to Informa.