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How Reducing Confusion Can Ease Medical Billing Stress for Employees

Healthcare IT Today

Today, insurers cram EOBs with every detail – from service codes to provider charges, allowed charges, owed amounts and remark codes – because of fears of being non-compliant with HIPAA, COBRA and host of other regulations, or face costly fines and penalties. About Brian Marsella. Brian Marsella is President at HPS/Paymedix.

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GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

GNC also, in a HIPAA-certified manner (explained on the website) that they will be collecting users’ information which consumer-members can access — in the form of visit notes and prescription data, and be able to download and save this information. Cost, cost, cost, cost, and cost — above quality of care.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. (FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters).

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How You Can Improve The Patient Financial Experience

Mend

While many industries have gone digital, healthcare still has catching up to do. Mend integrates with your medical billing software. Once the patient pays their portion, Mend will automatically notify the medical billing system that payment is complete. A Note on HIPAA Compliance. So, where’s the disconnect?

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. In addition to the “data is the new oil” mantra, Marc noted the growth of omnichannel in retail that has begun to re-shape the consumer-facing optical industry.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.” Let’s talk about Technology and Trust. health care.

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Five Healthcare Industry Changes to Watch in 2020

Henry Kotula

Industry experts expect significant changes to shake up the healthcare landscape in the next few years, which will affect both health insurers and providers. Consolidation will continue industry wide. Another factor is that momentum for consolidations across the industry has continued to build and no player wants to be left behind.