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Health Care Finance Leaders Look to Cut Costs and Improve Patients’ Financial Experience — Think AI and Venmo

Health Populi

Bank fielded a survey among 200 senior health care financial leaders in the U.S., Another way to reduce costs of administration in health care operations is to move from paper to electronic formats — long overdue in the eyes of patients who are increasingly dealing with medical bill paying as payers for out-of-pocket expenses.

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The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital Finances

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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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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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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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Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

Health Populi

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.