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The Painful State Of Patient Reimbursements
Monday 1st June - 7:15 am
U.S. patients were notoriously overburdened by healthcare costs even before pandemic-related job losses added new financial strains. These high costs and long reimbursement waits often lead cash-strapped consumers to skip ...SMBs And Customers Wrestle With The COVID (But Not Covert) Surcharge
Friday 29th May - 9:47 am
To help save at least some top line, to perhaps even help margins a bit — enter the COVID-19 surcharge.
Businesses across a variety of verticals have, in isolated cases, started ...How Faster Disbursements Can Help Solve Patients’ Payment Pain Points
Friday 29th May - 4:00 am
The United States healthcare system is notorious for burdening patients with hefty expenses — a reality that existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic turned a national spotlight onto the issue.
Financially-strained ...Mastercard: Helping Consumers And Businesses Dive Into The Digital Deep End
Thursday 28th May - 4:00 am
As challenging as the environment has been over the last 10 weeks or so, the pain points that have presented themselves aren’t necessarily new.
As Mastercard Senior Vice President of Digital ...Smart Cities Can Emerge Stronger From The Pandemic
Tuesday 26th May - 4:03 am
There is scarcely an aspect of life that has not been thoroughly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has also dramatically exposed the degree to which consumers, employers and ...Coronavirus Refunds: Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield Refunds $100M As Lockdown Slashes Medical Claims
Thursday 21st May - 6:51 pm
As the pandemic continues to disrupt everyday life the world over, some insurers are returning funds to their customers.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network plan to ...H1 Insights: Improving Patient Outcomes By Changing How Doctors, Pharma and Patients Find Each Other
Thursday 21st May - 4:01 am
In healthcare, increasingly, data is critical for addressing inefficiencies in a system that is nearly 18 percent of U.S. GDP.
And perhaps, most critically, matching patients with the right doctors, and ...CVS Returns $43M In Provider Relief Funds
Wednesday 20th May - 7:52 pm
CVS Health has agreed to return $43.3 million in payments it received through the CARES Act’s Provider Relief Fund, Fox Business reported.
In a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) ...Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Could Offer Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Monday 18th May - 5:17 pm
A COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the Cambridge, Massachusetts firm Moderna is showing early signs of promise, with an early-stage human trial showing some compelling results. This much-awaited bit of good news ...AI Deployed To Help Expand India’s Healthcare Services
Monday 18th May - 1:08 pm
Healthcare personnel shortages in India are being filled by artificial intelligence (AI) to help make medical services available to segments of the population that are often skipped over, according to ...CVS To Open 50+ COVID-19 Drive-Thru Testing Sites
Thursday 14th May - 10:33 am
As it works to address the pandemic with testing, CVS Health plans to open over 50 COVID-19 testing sites at designated CVS Pharmacy drive-thru locations throughout Connecticut, Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania ...CEO Atul Gawande Takes New Role At Haven Heathcare Joint Venture
Wednesday 13th May - 6:21 pm
Dr. Atul Gawande will resign as Haven’s CEO to serve as chairman of its board of directors, the Boston-based organization announced on Wednesday (May 13).
Founded by executives of Amazon, Berkshire ...Deep Dive: How Businesses Are Redesigning Payments To Survive The Pandemic
Monday 11th May - 7:30 am
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent the entertainment, fitness and restaurant sectors scrambling to adapt their revenue models and maintain customer loyalty during lockdowns. Business owners in these industries are learning ...How Higher Education Finds The Flexibility To Manage Cash Flow
Wednesday 6th May - 4:03 am
There are three letters that best describe the state of higher education in the U.S. amid the pandemic: T-B-D.
Colleges and universities, currently juggling the reality of empty campuses and classes ...Digital Declutters The Medicine Cabinet
Tuesday 5th May - 4:03 am
If there’s one overarching focus of life during the coronavirus pandemic, boiled down, it would be focusing on the essentials — ordered online and delivered to the doorstep, with minimal ...
