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Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

Health Populi

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. One descriptor noted “ a strategic partnership to humanize the healthcare financial experience.”

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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

The reality of patients entering doctors’ offices expecting to deal with their health care cost challenges is spelled out in The Increasing Role of Physician Practices as Bill Collectors – Destined for Failure , published in JAMA , 30 July 2021.

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3 in 4 Insured Americans Worried About Medical Bills — Especially Women

Health Populi

“Even those fortunate to have insurance struggle with bills that result from misunderstanding or underestimating costs of treatments and procedures,” Juliette Espinosa of MITRE judged from the study, Only one-half of covered health citizens say they understand their health plan only “somewhat.”

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Amber Specialty Pharmacy Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary with the Launch of New Transplant Patient Recovery Program

Amber Pharmacy

14, 2023) – In honor of Amber Specialty Pharmacy’s 25th anniversary, the specialty pharmacy provider has launched Vitality, a new six-month transplant recovery program to help support patients and caregivers during the post-transplant period, which is considered the most critical time for those patients.

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The Impact of AI on Revenue Cycle Management: Transforming Healthcare Reimbursements

ACMA Blog

However, navigating the complexities of RCM can be challenging, with billing errors, claim denials, and inefficiencies leading to financial losses and administrative burden. Detecting and Correcting Billing Errors Billing errors are a prevalent issue in healthcare, often resulting in delayed or denied reimbursements.

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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power 2021 U.S. Together, the two reports from J.D. Commercial Member Health Plan Study.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy? These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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