Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Improves the patient experience. Rising costs have placed more of the financial burden on patients. In fact, 1 in 11 adults delay or go without medical care due to cost reasons, according to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments). The expensive affordable.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This presents the opportunity for an ecosystem of transparently-priced care, highly-engaged patients, and high patient satisfaction and net promotion levels. According to a 2022 Nielsen survey, consumers indicate shifting priorities as COVID-19 transitions from a pandemic to an endemic presence in the United States.

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Mend

JULY 19, 2022

According to the same statistics, approximately one in five American households has “bad medical debt.” These numbers are concerning, as they indicate that many Americans are struggling to keep up with their medical bills. How Many Healthcare Organizations Still Rely on Paper Bills.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Debt.com survey out this weeks concludes that i nflation is making us sick, physically and financially — with 67% of U.S. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. In particular, 21% of consumers with medical debt say the primary source of that debt was due to the bills from doctor visits.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

patients would be willing to pay more for in health care, leaving aside the pragmatic question of what type of health insurance plan design the consumer had. In the YouGov survey, most patients said they would be willing to pay more for quality of care, and nearly one-half would pay more for choosing the medical team for their care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

What does my doctor bill mean?” addresses medical bill literacy – the explanation of benefits wonkiness, the coinsurance and copayment concerns, and, simply put, what did the health insurance company cover? The consumer research was part of Accenture’s 2017 Customer Experience Payer Benchmark Survey of 10,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Klepper of Worksite Health Advisors , longtime consigliere to self-insured employers, unions, and value-oriented providers of medical services, explained the growth in value-based care he expects to see in the coming months: “Today’s descendants of the disruptor Managed Care companies of the 1980’s are value-focused and high performing….that

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ninety percent of patients surveyed said that provider loyalty depends on the patient financial experience. adults with unpaid medical bills say they’ve had a provider deny them care due to that medical debt, leading many to put off care. Both can impact outcomes, costs, and the patient experience.

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Mend

JUNE 8, 2022

The widespread adoption of telemedicine has been the biggest story in the healthcare industry over the last few years. Automating scheduling allows staff to focus their skills on patient care and other revenue-generating activities. Improves patient satisfaction. This improves workflows and patient experience.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report. ACSI polls about 300,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services. racial and ethnic minority consumers were better informed that whites over time, and people with more education also saw more of the quality information).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

As the patient is increasingly the payor, the financial experience is embedded into the patient experience, too. Here’s evidence from a new Bankrate survey which had a question regarding women’s concerns about healthcare, shown in the table.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2019

As patients have taken on more financial responsibility for first-dollar costs in high-deductible health plans and medical bills, hospitals and health care providers face growing fiscal pressures for late payments and bad debt. adults who were “extremely or very afraid” of getting seriously ill.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

This research is part of the ongoing Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index surveys conducted every day, tracking questions for U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: It’s insightful and correct that Gallup posts this survey on the uninsured under the tab, “Well-Being.” adults 18 and over.

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