Arkenea

JUNE 20, 2025

By automating reminders for due payments, healthcare providers can ensure prompt collections, thereby improving the cash flow without negatively impacting the patient experience. This real-time verification prevents claim denials due to eligibility issues and enables accurate patient financial counseling before services are provided.

Documentation

Arkenea

JULY 23, 2025

These sophisticated platforms must navigate an increasingly complex landscape of insurance policies, regulatory requirements, and technological demands while maintaining the highest standards of data security and patient privacy.

Billing

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.

Medical Administrative Assistant

Arkenea

JUNE 23, 2025

RAG systems can reduce this to minutes by: Instantly retrieving relevant studies from vast medical databases Summarizing key findings in the context of your specific research questions Identifying gaps in current research that align with your organization’s capabilities Comparing treatment outcomes across multiple studies with your patient population (..)

Documentation

Physicians Practice

JULY 15, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Health care practices enhance revenue by collaborating with payers for digital out-of-pocket payments, improving cash flow and patient engagement. Advanced tech automatically reconciles payments for the provider, eliminating the need to manually match payments to patient accounts.

Billing

CollaborateMD

MARCH 20, 2025

Billing and Claims Management : Ensure smooth processes for medical billing , insurance claims, and payment collection. Reporting and Analytics : Provide actionable insights into practice performance, patient trends, and revenue generation. Is the data backed up on a mirrored out-of-state site? Does its servers have a firewall?

Appointments

Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 5, 2025

Follow Author Aug 05, 2025, 05:23pm EDT Share Save Comment Close-up of a stethoscope on a spread U.S. Follow Author Aug 05, 2025, 05:23pm EDT Share Save Comment Close-up of a stethoscope on a spread U.S. Insurers make money by denying claims. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights.

Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2025

Home Warranty Cost Best Home Appliance Insurance Best Solar Companies Best Solar Panels Cost Of Solar Panels Solar Tax Credit By State Are Solar Panels Worth It? Haseltine Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare The Triumphs And Trials Of Duchenne Gene Therapy By William A. Haseltine , Contributor. Haseltine, Ph.D.,

Insurance

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

elections, Jennifer’s assertion sums up what, ex post facto , we know about what most inspired American voters at the polls in November 2024: the economy, economics, inflation, the costs of daily living… pick your noun, but it’s all about those Benjamins right now for mainstream American consumers across many demographic cuts.

Insurance

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2025

The DIY food-health concept, coined by Nielsen, was the build-up of our “pandemic pantries.” It’s fascinating to see this sentiment is pretty equal across every demographic Deloitte assessed in the study: by age group, by income break, by insurance status, and by diagnosed chronic disease status. Overall, 3 in 4 U.S.

Collaboration

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2025

Albertsons has placed a bet (and made a serious investment) in the Sincerely Health platform, which is meant to play well in the digital health data sandbox with the likes of health insurers, community health systems, and consumer-facing digital health applications and monitoring devices.

Collaboration

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Notwithstanding the controversy stirred up by the Hims & Hers commercial (which EDO termed a “Big Game Debut”), clearly, health and well-being ads landed pretty well at the Big Game, and their presence among commercials for cars, beers, and food held up against these traditional ad categories in terms of engagement. .”

Follow-Up

Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

This year, we learn that outpatient care and pharmacy were the two line items most responsible for driving the PPO cost up to over $35K: pharmacy costs rose 9.7% for the average patient. MMI is quick to note that an “average patient” in the study methodology is based on the original MMI family for tracking consistency.

Billing

Scrubs

MARCH 21, 2023

MaineHealth recently announced it is using AI to automatically record conversations between doctors and their patients during a check-up or follow-up visit. It helps her pay more attention to her patients, many of whom just want to be heard. “We We end up doing what we went into medicine for,” she said.

Hospital

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. Cost influenced two-thirds of patients in terms of their satisfaction with a physician or a health system. Given a $60K median U.S. The post In the U.S.,

Insurance

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

However, as patients continue to be concerned about exposure to COVID-19, 3 in 5 are concerned about being at-risk to the virus in their doctor’s office, according to research from the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and AMCP , the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program.

Insurance

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.

Medication

Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Iora Health has focused on the Medicare-enrolled population, distinct from ONEM’s target patient market of younger, employed consumers. billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 Longer-term, Mike could envision Amazon expanding into health insurance.

Medication

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

In movies in particular, we’ve seen health care costs and hassles play featured in plotlines in As Good as it Gets [theme: health insurance coverage], M*A*S*H [war and its medical impacts are hell], and Philadelphia [HIV/AIDS in the era of The Band Played On], among dozens of others. Here’s the ad you can watch for yourself.

Insurance

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

But as the report’s title asserts, most telehealth users experienced obstacles to accessing and using virtual care platforms that drove less positive consumer experiences. Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. In the study, J.D.

Physical Exams

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. Both medical billing and insurance processing require attention to detail and strong communication skills.

Medical Assistant

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? The top reasons health consumers sought virtual care were for wellness check-ins and routine check-ups, among 41% of virtual care consumers.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

Billing

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Some consumers’ lacking or losing health insurance as ACA coverage eroded in the past two years, resulting in these patients having to self-insure and price-shop for health care services (see my post on the Gallup Poll here on Health Populi). Most employers’ adopting telehealth as a covered employee benefit.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

In the program’s FAQs, one question clearly addresses this, transparently and in layperson’s terms: Q: “Do I need health insurance to use GNC Health?” ” A: “Nope — insurance isn’t needed or accepted.” Here’s the list of those top-of-mind healthcare worries for U.S.

Insurance

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Some people could not work from home due to the nature of their jobs requiring up-close-and-personal human touch; other workers lacked households with broadband or WiFi connectivity, limiting their ability to do work tasks that could have been remotely accomplished. As a result, more people in the U.S. It’s true to say that in the U.S.

Billing

Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

peoples’ expectations of their health care experience is melding with their best retail experience — and that’s taken a turn toward their digital and ecommerce life-flows. Year on year, few experience benchmarks significantly shifted between 2020 and 2021, the first bar chart shows. In the U.S.,

Insurance

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

Having health insurance in America is no guarantee of actually receiving health care. It’s a case of having health insurance as “necessary but not sufficient,” as the cost of deductibles, out-of-pocket coinsurance sharing, and delaying care paint the picture of The Hidden Lives of Workplace-Insured Americans.

Insurance

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

.” And across all technologies assessed in this study, it was AI and machine learning that the health care finance execs pointed to as a top-three investment priority, followed by improving the patient experience (among 37%), and automating business processes (32%). Bank explained in the report.

Billing

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

was Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, noted by 18% of people — from 14% of Republicans up to 23% of Democrats. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. Monthly health insurance premium, among 36% of people.

Long Term Care

Health Populi

JULY 18, 2025

for group health insurance. in 2022 when cost trend dipped coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic… then shot up to 8.0% the following year in patients’ healthcare catch-up mode. What’s continuing to drive up health care costs? This contrasts with a low of 5.5%

Medication

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We meet George and Audrey in their open kitchen-dining room space, with George finishing up a conversation with his cardiologist via a tablet.

Discharges

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

exploring consumer satisfaction with some 150 health insurance plans operating in 22 regions around the U.S. ” Across all plans, consumers’ Net Promoter Scores (NPS) have increased year over year since 2019 when they hit a low of 11, now up 7 points in 2021 to 18. The post Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D.

Patient Satisfaction

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power published two customer satisfaction assessments of telehealth providers for Direct-to-Consumer services and those delivered by health insurance plans. For health plan-provided telehealth, Humana topped the list, followed by Aetna in second place. CVS Health and Walgreens ranked last at 825 and 822 Indices.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

As an Index, the MMI combines several line items of healthcare spending to make up the overall number, and this methodology allows us to compare the rising costs of care for a family of 4 covered by a PPO year to year.

Medication

Health Populi

JULY 15, 2019

For context, this chapter follows two that explain how patients in the U.S. And yet…as the first chart illustrates from Aflac’s Workforces Survey , half of people want shopping for health insurance to feel like an Amazon experience, and another 20% like a retail store.

Follow-Up