CollaborateMD

JANUARY 5, 2024

These days, billing can be complex. It makes billing simpler and more accurate. The medical billing market is growing fast. billion in 2022. This growth shows just how vital medical billing is becoming. This growth shows just how vital medical billing is becoming. billion by 2032.

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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. told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008.

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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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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 3, 2024

In today’s digital age, medical billing software plays a vital role in streamlining the billing process and improving patient care. The industry experienced 1,410 cyberattacks a week in 2022, an increase of 86%. The industry experienced 1,410 cyberattacks a week in 2022, an increase of 86%.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. patients viewed their laboratory test results online in 2022.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A new report from CoverMyMeds details the current state of medication access weaving together key health care industry and consumer data. One in three patients went without treatment or medications to pay for bills and basic needs, the research found.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 31, 2024

At ACI Medical & Dental School in Eatontown, NJ, we prepare students for in-demand jobs in the medical field. Here is a closer look at 12 fast-growing medical jobs in 2024 to consider for your next career move. 12 In-Demand Jobs in the Medical Field To Consider Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) What Do They Do?

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

in 2022, the first decrease in 20 years. In 2022, 66,261 candidates were rejected, and in 2021 applications by 76,140 candidates were turned down. from 2021 to 2022. Whether this bill can make it through Congress and become law is unknown. Master ’ s programs have seen a 9.4% decrease since 2021.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 18, 2023

nurses plan on quitting their jobs at the end of 2022, which would leave thousands of medical facilities and millions of patients without the care and support they need. I wanted to quit but had to pay bills, and it’s hard to find another job. A recent survey shows that around a third of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders. This consumer research was conducted in January 2022 — well before a gallon of gas cost an average of $4.98 in Hong Kong the week of 20 June 2022).

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

On June 11, Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the agency’s vision to ban Americans’ medical debt from credit reports. He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports.

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Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. From the start, CFPB has been monitoring medical debt along with other forms of household debt — student loans, mortgages, credit cards, and so on.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New mental health medications are often more effective, while also offering fewer and/or less severe side effects. It is important for prescribers and other mental health professionals to stay informed about the latest medications so they can share the information with colleagues and make the right decisions for patients.

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Health Prime

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running a medical practice comes with its own challenges, and one of the most common hurdles healthcare providers face is staff shortage. According to the 2022 ACHE’s Top Issues Confronting Hospitals survey , workforce challenges emerged as the foremost concern for hospital CEOs, ranking number one on their list of priorities.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. While most employed workers have been saving for retirement, many are not putting sufficient funds away for their goals, dreaming of traveling, spending more time with family, and pursuing hobbies.

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Mildred Elley

APRIL 8, 2024

Are you interested in a medical assistant career, but wonder, “What is a medical assistant exactly?” Before beginning this new chapter, it’s important to learn what are common medical assistant duties and how medical assistants perform in the workplace. What does a clinical medical assistant do?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

have not returned to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022. One contributor to lackluster return-to-healthcare volumes is patients’ forgoing care due to cost — which Trilliant Health points out has overtaken COVID-19 concerns as the key driver for avoiding medical care services. That’s the demand side.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 27, 2024

In that competition, medical care is probably going to end up being deferred, until it becomes unavoidable. After more than decade, with all those income streams, it still lost $419 million on operations in 2022, immediately before being acquired by Amazon in 2022 for nearly $4 billion.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

MARCH 11, 2024

There are a wide variety of opportunities available to individuals who pursue a Medical Assistant certification. As a leading institution offering a robust, hands-on Medical Assistant training program, we understand the importance of empowering our students with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in the growing healthcare industry.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2022

adults chose to defer health care in 2022, split by. adults chose not to fill a prescription drug due to the cost in the 12 months prior to the study (conducted August-September 2022). Qualtrics conducted the survey in August-September 2022 among 1,000 U.S. Rising costs are the #1 reason U.S. 25% delayed mental health care. .”

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2023

consumers feel in worse financial shape now than in 2022, with inflation a top concern, discovered in the 2024 New Year’s Financial Resolutions Study from Fidelity Investments. One-third of U.S. In fact, 45% pf people said they had to take money out from their emergency savings for current spending needs.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit). Telehealth and virtual care are here to stay, opening new on-ramps for greater access, system expansion, and pressure on the supply of medical real estate. adults in the first half of January 2022 for this study.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Certain kinds of debt are associated with mental health challenges – in particular, debt incurred outside of a person’s control, like medical debt. The APA found in the 2022 study that stress related to money reached the highest level Americans felt since 2015. consumers said paying a health care bill was stressful.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

takes center stage in Health Populi this week as several events converge to highlight medical debt as a unique feature in American health care. “Medical debt is the most common collection tradeline reported on consumer credit records,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called out in a report published March 1, 2022.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Doctors heads and hearts are jammed with concerns beyond curing patients’ medical conditions: U.S. physicians are worried about big social issues, according to a Medscape survey report, Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues 2022. House Committee of the Judiciary leads Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-)) and Rep.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

To this point, a relevant Accenture report published earlier in 2022 was titled, The Human Paradox: From Customer Centricity to Life Centricity. As patients continue to morph into health consumers and medical bill payers, they will seek value-based care based on their own values, customers, preferences, and beliefs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Families with children feel particularly strapped for the 2021 holiday season: while they will be less likely to reduce holiday spending, one-half are concerned about medical expenses compared with one year ago. voters’ top-of-mind issues for health care and overall election priorities for mid-terms 2022.

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Health Prime

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running a medical practice comes with its own challenges, and one of the most common hurdles healthcare providers face is staff shortage. According to the 2022 ACHE’s Top Issues Confronting Hospitals survey , workforce challenges emerged as the foremost concern for hospital CEOs, ranking number one on their list of priorities.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S.

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Health Prime

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By focusing on specific vital components, medical practices can successfully navigate the complex landscape of healthcare finance. The report also stated that most of them identified providers or their billing department as the root cause of their frustration and errors.

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Health Populi

JULY 19, 2022

This gesture is enabling families to get to medical appointments around Paducah, Kentucky where, this week, car drivers faced regular gas priced at an average of $4.16 In that June 2022 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 100 million people in the U.S. were found to have had medical debt burdens in 2022.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

are now delaying care is due to cost , not concerns about exposure to COVID-19 which created the phenomenon of “medical distancing” between 2020 and 2022, resulting in some patients avoiding preventive screenings and necessary care in face-to-face medical settings. “If The top reason people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Its meaning was, “insurance against loss through illness of the insured,” especially, “insurance providing compensation for medical expenses.”

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

KPMG reveals that CMS predicts total hospital provider spending will increase by 50 percent between 2022 and 2030. This growth has caused rising pharmaceutical prices, increased medical technology costs and labor shortages, resulting in: Health worker wage increases. What does this statistic prove? Economy-wide inflation grew 12.4%

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults would be uncomfortable if their health care provider relied on AI for their medical care, according to the Pew Research Group. million medical records ). Three in five U.S. The other side of that coin is that only 2 in 5 people thought AI would lead to better patient outcomes. public health, as well.

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