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How Healthcare Organizations Can Rise Above the Swelling Payment Epidemic

Electronic Health Reporter

By Joe McMurray, senior vice president of patient experience, Zotec Partners. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action

Health Populi

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. The average monthly mortgage payment was $1,759 in mid-2022. Back in that day, “1 family in 3 got a hospital bill” and “A doctor bill came with each hospital bill…most likely for surgery.”

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

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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21 Tips for How to Improve the Patient Experience

Walker Info - Patient Experience

Patient experience is more than feeling good about feeling good. In fact, more than 70% of patients would switch healthcare providers to improve their experience. Improving patient experience scores through value-based care should be at the top of every health system’s to-do list.

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Consumers’ Growing Use of Portals and Apps: People Embracing Their Patient Journeys

Health Populi

.” But ONC data belies that: as it happens, patients can handle the truth, as we learn that 9 in 10 U.S. patients viewed their laboratory test results online in 2022. In 2022, 29% of patients accessed their online record at least 6 times over the year, and 25% did so between 3 and 5 times.

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Consumers Are Feeling Their Healthcare Cost of Living – Research from Qualtrics

Health Populi

adults chose to defer health care in 2022, split by. ” The Healthcare Cost of Living also directly impacts patients-as-prescription drug payers. adults chose not to fill a prescription drug due to the cost in the 12 months prior to the study (conducted August-September 2022). Rising costs are the #1 reason U.S.

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Health Populi

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending.