Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The key findings in the survey of 136 health care executives were that: Digital health tools are a priority for half of the health system leaders. The post Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 2, 2018

Nearly one-third of respondents said they had to choose between paying for a medical bill and food or heat. More Americans are afraid of paying for their healthcare than becoming seriously ill, according to a new poll conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and West Health Institute.

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Medical Billing 87

Health Populi

DECEMBER 1, 2023

consumers say they can’t afford to pay their medical bills on-time, based on the 2023 Consumer Survey from Access One, a financial services company focused on healthcare payments. Furthermore, one-third of consumers are not confident they could pay a medical bill of $500 or more. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Medical Billing 170

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). Who’s responsible? Plus ça change.

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Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience 117

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

This report compiled quantitative data from payments processed on the InstaMed network amounting to some $656 billion in healthcare payments in addition to results from three qualitative surveys that Qualtrics conducted polling consumers, providers and payors in 2023. Mailing a paper check?

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Medical Billing Patient Experience Connected Health 203

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

While 57% of doctors think patients miss appointments due to insurance issues , and 34% think it’s lack of access to appointments, a Tebra survey found the real reasons that patients skip appointments are work conflicts, not feeling well, and facing transportation issues.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. News and Studies. Only 38% of Americans have a dedicated savings fund for healthcare emergencies.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 25, 2019

More than eight and 10 Americans see insurers as the largest contributor to surprise medical bills, according to a recent poll. Morning Consult, a research and technology firm, surveyed 1,500 registered voters between May 31 and June 1 and released the findings this week.

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Medical Billing 40

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

Note that nearly 1 in 2 of high-income Americans, earning at least $100,000 a year, had had health care debt in the past five years, shown in the first chart from the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Care Debt Survey. ” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt? . health citizens.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2022

health consumers are avoiding or delaying health care, replacing concerns about COVID-19, based on survey research from Qualtrics. The company’s Healthcare Cost of Living survey research learned that 48% of U.S. Qualtrics conducted the survey in August-September 2022 among 1,000 U.S. Rising costs are the #1 reason U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. What is not commonly discussed is that medical bill problems are very common among people who have insurance and not only the uninsured. It’s true to say that in the U.S.

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Medical Billing Health Policy Mental health Patient Experience 258

ACA Times

DECEMBER 31, 2015

One in five (20%) working-age Americans with health insurance say problems paying medical bills often force them to work longer hours, take a second job, spend less on food, use up their savings, borrow from family or friends, or seek help from a charity.

Medical Billing 40

Medical Billing 40

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year.

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Medical Billing Life Science Medicare Pharmaceuticals 235

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

consumers, found in the latest Beryl Institute-Ipsos Px Pulse survey published for July 2023. GNC is channeling to the current concerns of health consumers… value in the eye of the beholder and medical bill payer. Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. Gallup and West Health have been studying Healthcare in America , finding in their June 2022 consumer survey that one in four people in the U.S.

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Life Science Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals 170

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Studies and Surveys Nearly 80% of patients say the billing experience is important when choosing a provider , according to a report from Salucro Healthcare Solutions. Additionally, two-thirds of patients said they prefer text or email reminders about their bills, while demand for contactless payments has doubled in two years.

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EHR Medical Billing Healthcare IT Pharmaceuticals 99

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. Most Americans want government to do more to help them, the OECD survey found. Given a $60K median U.S. VisitPay conducted a poll among 1,734 U.S.

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Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy 279

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. Only 6% of workers in this survey said they would not be willing to share their PHI for any reason.

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Digital Health Medical Billing Health Information Leadership 406

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

A new survey of independent medical practices and billing companies has found that they are leaning heavily on telehealth to keep generating income. The survey, which was conducted by Kareo, connected with more than 600 medical practices and 140 medical billing companies.

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Telehealth Medical Billing EMR Telemedicine 59

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors.

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Digital Health Medical Billing Health Information Health Data 250

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

This results of the consumer and provider surveys combines those corporate interests, discussed in this report. You may know the name Experian as one of the largest credit rating agencies for consumer finance in the U.S. You may not know that the company has a significant footprint in health care and financial technology.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S.

Medical Billing 170

Medical Billing 170

Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2018

Meanwhile, 40 percent said they skipped a recommended medical test or treatment. Some 86 percent of those surveyed said they’re covered either through their employer, have insurance they purchased directly, or through government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB). People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers.

Medical Billing 156

Medical Billing Mental health Patient Experience Medicare 156

Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

at the time of this writing), process medical payments across the health care ecosystem, and published the company’s 2021 Healthcare Payments Insights Report. The Elavon consumer survey also covered patients’ views on affordability — where concerns remain high. Two-thirds of U.S. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Patient Experience Medical Billing Health Information Telehealth 212

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

In light of a recent survey indicating that 31% of consumers expect remote care to be available for space travelers by 2053, DrFirst announced its patent-pending iPrescribe 3-D printer cartridge for printing commonly prescribed medications in space.

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Nursing Medical Billing Primary Care EHR 87

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Explaining Medical Bills. An AI-powered chatbot will be available in the future through Epic’s Hello World platform that will help explain complex medical bills to patients. Early response has been positive with some patients commenting how the generated responses are more empathetic than prior communications.

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Medical Billing Nursing EMR EHR 84

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

People dealing with chronic conditions are keener to share personally-generated data than people that don’t have a chronic disease, Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of U.S> Specifically, 50% of health consumers search to see their providers are in-network, to avoid surprise medical bills. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Pharmaceuticals Medical Billing Medicare Mental health 136

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to one survey on healthcare payment plans, 90.7 When patients have questions about their medical bills, offer support over a variety of communication channels like live chat, text, email, or IVR. percent of patients would be interested in using payment plans in the future. Provide enhanced support. About Blake Walker.

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Medical Billing Health Data Patient Experience Healthcare IT 90

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

This is what rationing health care looks like in America: one in two people in families dealing with a chronic health condition have difficulty affording paying medial bills before meeting a deductible, unexpected medical bills, co-payments for prescription drugs, co-payments for physician visits, and/or their monthly health insurance premium.

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Medical Billing 239

Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

This insight comes from the Patientco annual survey report on the state of the patient financial experience. One-third of people was worried about what they would owe in the medical bill, and just over one-fourth of people were concerned about exposure to COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

With that context, I’ll leave you with the latest estimate from Fidelity Investments on how much money a couple retiring in 2022 at 65 years of age would need to cover their health care costs in retirement — just their medical costs, not living or traveling or other expenses — and not including long-term care.

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Mental health Medical Billing Health Policy 296

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).

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Telehealth EMR Medical Billing Mental health 243