Health Prime

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this stage of the medical billing process, your front-end staff ensures proper collection and recording of valuable data essential to provide proper services to the patient and ensure their coverage. This can also lead to increased anxiety and stress, particularly for patients who already deal with health concerns.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

From a cancer patient: I had to change insurance in the middle of my eight-month treatment plan. She begged me to induce before the end of the year because shed already hit her insurance deductible. She begged me to induce before the end of the year because shed already hit her insurance deductible. Make it easy.

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Medical Economics

JUNE 27, 2025

Establishing medical necessity: The downstream importance of diagnosis codes Establishing a patient’s medical necessity is critical because it ensures that diagnostic tests, treatments and referrals are both clinically justified and reimbursable by insurance. were hospitalized.

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CollaborateMD

JUNE 20, 2025

With a platform that collects and connects data across billing, scheduling, clinical care, and patient communication, CollaborateMD allows your staff to focus on delivering better outcomes while we handle the behind-the-scenes complexities. Speed and Accuracy in Billing and Payment: Reduce claim errors to accelerate reimbursement.

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Northwest Career College

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Some of the work activities include: Appointment Setting Managed patient records and ensured they were up-to-date. Handled all insurance forms and also billing-related processes. These vital tasks provide a seamless patient experience and allow medical professionals to focus on caregiving.

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Physicians Practice

JUNE 27, 2025

That sends patients a message that the practice might be neglecting other details. The BE concept also extends beyond restrooms. 60: Strategic planning with Stephen A. Dickens of SVMIC Austin Littrell April 14th 2025 Podcast Stephen A. 60: Strategic planning with Stephen A.

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Arkenea

JUNE 23, 2025

Phase 1: Assessment and Planning (Months 1-2) Current State Analysis : Begin with a comprehensive assessment of your organization’s existing data landscape, technical infrastructure, and workflow requirements.

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Health Prime

JULY 8, 2025

In the emergency department (ED), denials and underpayments aren’t just billing issues – they’re operational threats that affect the entire healthcare ecosystem. This problem is not only hurting emergency medicine physician groups and hospitals – it’s also hurting patients. missing MDM details for 99285) Unbilled procedures (e.g.,

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Health Prime

JULY 8, 2025

In the emergency department (ED), denials and underpayments aren’t just billing issues – they’re operational threats that affect the entire healthcare ecosystem. This problem is not only hurting emergency medicine physician groups and hospitals – it’s also hurting patients. missing MDM details for 99285) Unbilled procedures (e.g.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2025

You can see the “hottest” financial target by medical concern was medical bills, followed by living expenses and in third place, lost income due to missing or losing work. But there are some universal themes that were common across patients across medical needs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In another post for contextualizing #CES2025 for health, , Ill detail some of the barriers, obstacles, and concerns on health consumers minds related to the adoption and ongoing use of digital health technologies with Trust being an over-arching issue on peoples minds.

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CollaborateMD

MARCH 20, 2025

It can bring a refreshing shift from scattered patient files and billing information to seamless, stress-free workflows and revenue management. Billing and Claims Management : Ensure smooth processes for medical billing , insurance claims, and payment collection. What happens if systems are mismatched?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S. health consumers is with the health care system industry segments like hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — as patients differentiate between the “system” and the “people” working in it.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2025

Facing uncertainties across everyday life flows, U.S. consumers look to economic and health security — and welcome businesses to support these, we learn in an analysis from The Conference Board. The Conference Board (TCB) polled 3,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

Arraying these two uncertainties on the X-Y, high-low axes, I generated four futures asking what the person – as consumer, patient, plan member, caregiver, and health citizen — would be facing in American health care toward 2030. It feels like 2030 is more like “now” than health care life was for people in the U.S.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 29, 2025

Health insurance out-of-pocket maximums have been increasing each year. The payment collection should evolve with the increased burden on patients to contribute to their medical bills. Patients love convenience, taking bills via electronic modalities. According to the Statista Research Department , U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

Specific to consumers home health care economics, we learn from Gallup and West Health that Americans borrowed about $74 billion to pay medical bills in 2024. We can start with the consumer as patient and medical bill payor, noting that even the most affluent households in the Gallup-West Health study feel the sting of medical bill concerns.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

.” In this Health Populi post, I’m weaving together three just-published studies that together fill in a profile of the current state of health consumers in America — in particular, working-insured health citizens. We’ll focus on people who are working and covered with health insurance through an employer.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

insured consumers’ perspectives on prescription drug pricing and the role of PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers). 9 in 10 insured Americans felt that prescriptions are more expensive in the U.S. 9 in 10 insured Americans felt that prescriptions are more expensive in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. That includes oral health and dental bills: 2 in 5 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2025

consumers’ financial stress, an impact that will have knock-on toxic or otherwise negative side-effects on patients and families dealing with chronic conditions and facing medical bills, reinforcing the unhealthy vicious cycle of fiscal/physical health risks. Tariffs will further exacerbate U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

workers have traded off for health care coverage , for those working people who have received health care coverage from the workplace (that is, employer-sponsored health insurance). This could hit medical offices managing patient bill paying (e.g., It’s wages that U.S.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JULY 14, 2025

While clinical care receives a lot of attention, many healthcare organizations are recognizing a less obvious contributor to positive patient experiences – foodservice. The Role of Food in Healing—and Scoring Patients often report that meals are among the few things they can control during a hospital stay. Hospitals are worried.

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Health Prime

MAY 16, 2024

From fostering financial transparency to minimizing billing errors and accelerating reimbursement, a well-optimized RCM system contributes significantly to patient satisfaction. By investing in advanced RCM technologies and practices , your medical practice can shape a positive and seamless healthcare journey for patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP). health economy includes employers, unions, public sector plans and other groups as well as the Patient as Payor — thus prompting NABIP’s Bill of Rights.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

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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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

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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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. Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. The post In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM). The big gap in supply to patients vs. demand by health consumers is highlighted by what the arrow in the chart below points to: managing payments and paying bills.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families.

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Northwest Suburban College

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Medical billing and insurance processing are essential skills for aspiring medical assistants. These tasks ensure that healthcare providers get paid for their services and that patients understand their financial responsibilities. Knowing these codes is essential for accurate billing.

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2024

When health care providers and payers make patients’ lives easier, there’s a multiplying factor for loyalty and revenue growth, according to Accenture’s latest look into the value of experience in The Power of Trust: Unlocking patient loyalty in healthcare.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Having health insurance in the U.S. See the third chart, where KFF/Peterson Center looked at the consumer’s insurance status, state of medical debt and health care service impact — in Health Populi lingo we use the phrase, “self-rationing behavior due to cost.”

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Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

The revenue cycle is a complex and multifaceted system that involves various stakeholders, including healthcare providers, payers (insurance companies), and patients. It begins at the front lines of the healthcare practice, where staff members collect essential demographic and insurance information during the initial patient contact.

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Health Prime

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Financial transparency is crucial to a holistic patient journey that includes everything from patient care to all relationship processes—not only administrative functions. In medical billing, precision and clarity are key. Read more about this in our blog How to explain payments to patients in your medical practice.

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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. It’s important to note that health care cost fiscal stress is not only a symptom for people lacking health insurance. It’s true to say that in the U.S.

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