May 1, 2019
Regardless of specialty, the process of getting in a new patient is a required, albeit cumbersome step. While technology has already streamlined much of [...]
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April 23, 2019
Rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs pose a challenge to patient access to care. When patients don’t believe they can afford a medical bill, they often go [...]
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April 16, 2019
MECHANICSBURG, Pa., April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — HealthPay24®, a premier SaaS provider of enterprise patient payment solutions, and Curae Finance, LLC, a leading provider of non-recourse [...]
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February 6, 2019
The continuing rise in popularity of high-deductible health insurance plans has given way to something called healthcare consumerism. For the uninitiated, healthcare consumerism is [...]
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January 29, 2019
We’ve written at length about the rise of patient financial responsibility in health care, due to the increasing prevalence of high-deductible health insurance plans [...]
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January 22, 2019
Continuing our series on increasing patient out-of-pocket costs, today we examine trends in substance abuse treatment. Between the opioid epidemic, as well as ongoing [...]
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June 8, 2018
With the average patient out-of-pocket costs increasing to over $1,800 in 2017, there remains a significant need for more flexible patient financing options. Aquina [...]
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October 24, 2017
A recent Gallup poll – based on more than 45,000 interviews with adults aged 18 and older, from July 1 to Sept. 30, conducted as part [...]
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October 18, 2017
Consulting firm Accenture recently released survey results saying 21% of Americans have already tried some form of virtual care and a whopping 78% are willing to [...]
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September 18, 2017
HIMSS released the results of its 2016 Connected Health Survey. The survey is reflective of 227 IT, informatics and clinical professionals in U.S. hospitals [...]
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September 13, 2017
A recent article by McKinsey surveyed more than 11,000 people and uncovered some common misconceptions surrounding health care consumerism. The authors note there are [...]
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September 6, 2017
The role of a medical practice administrator goes beyond identifying best practices and finding ways to implement them. Practice leaders also must identify where [...]
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