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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

Healthcare IT Today

Medicare Advantage costs are 12% lower than similar beneficiaries covered under fee-for-service Medicare, according to research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School. Nearly three in four (72%) patients say affordability is the biggest challenge to paying larger healthcare bills , according to a survey from Cedar.

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Health Care for a Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166 in 2018

Health Populi

families could not afford to pay $1,000 for an emergency medical bill in one study; in another, that inability to pay is as low as a $400 emergency to cover. Last year’s rate of growth was 4.6%. We know that, ironically, one-half of U.S.