Healthcare costs

Cost Transparency Is Patient Payments Starting Point
Cost Transparency Is Patient Payments Starting Point
March 29, 2022  |  Healthcare Financing

If the point of healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) is creating processes that get providers paid in full more quickly, we may be entering a...

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Healthcare Providers, Insurers Test New Era of Pricing and Payments to Retain Patients
Healthcare Providers, Insurers Test New Era of Pricing and Payments to Retain Patients
March 15, 2022  |  Healthcare

With a third of U.S. consumers saying they’ve waived necessary medical tests or treatments over cost fears that originate with opacity and get denser from...

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VillageMD CEO: How The Walgreens Partnership Can Fix What’s Broken In Primary Healthcare
VillageMD CEO: How The Walgreens Partnership Can Fix What’s Broken In Primary Healthcare
July 16, 2020  |  Healthcare

If the U.S. is serious about fixing the cost of healthcare, then it’s time to focus on one of the root causes of its spiraling...

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Cedar CEO: Solving For Healthcare’s ‘Black Box’ Of Patient Billing
Cedar CEO: Solving For Healthcare’s ‘Black Box’ Of Patient Billing
July 06, 2020  |  Healthcare

It may be the blackest of black boxes. The pandemic, with its public health fears, has trained a spotlight on the labyrinth of the healthcare...

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Walmart, Disruptors Take Aim At US Healthcare’s High Costs
Walmart, Disruptors Take Aim At US Healthcare’s High Costs
June 29, 2020  |  Healthcare

The COVID-19 pandemic and the related U.S. recession have combined to make already-soaring healthcare costs even more of a crisis. But an increasing number of...

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Healthcare Costs Concerning For Voters (And Their Wallets)
Healthcare Costs Concerning For Voters (And Their Wallets)
March 05, 2020  |  Economy

Perhaps it may be the coronavirus – understandably so – that is spurring Americans to think of healthcare costs. And healthcare costs are increasingly at...

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Can Payments Solve Healthcare’s $20K-Per-Family Cost Burden?
Can Payments Solve Healthcare’s $20K-Per-Family Cost Burden?
September 30, 2019  |  Healthcare

We all know the drill. After receiving treatment at a hospital (whether an in-and-out affair, such as an MRI, or a multi-day stay in a...

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The Why Behind So Many Healthcare Payment Buys
The Why Behind So Many Healthcare Payment Buys
June 24, 2019  |  Healthcare

Healthcare needs some fixing, especially when it comes to providing a continuum of efficient care, making it affordable — and getting providers paid. Lots of...

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Today In Data: The Power Of Pricing
Today In Data: The Power Of Pricing
August 28, 2018  |  Today In Data

The conventional wisdom in retail is that pricing is almost everything: Lob a discount, and the consumers will come. But recent research indicates that actually,...

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