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Will “Buy Now, Pay Later” Financing Help Health Consumers Pay Their Medical Bills?

Health Populi

The latest iteration/offering to help patients pay medical bills is the concept of “Buy Now, Pay Later,” or BNPL. patients in the context of household inflation, see my latest blog post in Medecision’s Liberate Health portal. For more on health care costs facing U.S. appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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

Health Populi

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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Did you miss one? Five Aging and Health Tech blog posts March 2023

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And it is fair to say that the applications of it are making its way into the world of older adults, this AARP article describes its uses for older adults in generating a letter to contest a medical bill. Here are four other blog posts from March to think about: Our passwords, ourselves - the nightmare of authentication.

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

Health Populi

When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. The film, by the way, garnered six nominations and won two].

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Inflation: Will Consumers’ Financial Stress Erode Their Health?

Health Populi

An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders. For more on another successful cost-saving prescription drug program, check out my recent blog on Costco as a value-driven pharmacy].

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. health care financing.

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“It’s the Deductible, Stupid” – Health Premiums Reach $20,576 in 2019 for a Family

Health Populi

Because this is the Health Populi blog, my lens is aimed in the KFF report on consumer-facing issues. In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S. politics both at the Federal and State levels.