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12 February 2024
People With Medical Debt Are Much More Likely to Be in Financial Distress in America
18 October 2023
Health Care Finance Leaders Look to Cut Costs and Improve Patients’ Financial Experience — Think AI and Venmo
24 January 2023
Integration is the New Innovation for Healthcare in 2023: Reflections on CES2023 and JPM2023
24 October 2022
How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?
20 September 2022
The Direct Link Between Value-Based Health Care, Digital Transformation and Social Determinants – Insights from Innovaccer and Morning Consult
13 September 2022
The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital Finances
24 February 2022
Medical Distancing Is Bad For Your Health
22 September 2021
A Negative Outlook for US Hospital Margins Through 2021
10 September 2021
New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops
8 April 2021
Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned
25 February 2021
Hospitals Continue to Lose Money in Year 2 of the Pandemic
3 February 2021
Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still Avoiding Medical Care
1 February 2021
Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report
10 December 2020
Will 2021 Be the Year of Sicker Americans? Pondering Late 2020 Data from IQVIA
11 November 2020
Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability
12 October 2020
The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020
5 August 2020
The Next Site for Hospital Care Is the Original One — Your Home
17 July 2020
The Median Hospital Charge In the U.S. for COVID-19 Care Ranges From $34-45K
8 July 2020
Beyond Care and Outcomes, Hospitals Must Deliver on Civics, Inclusivity, Equity, and Value – Lown Institute’s Best Hospitals
1 July 2020
U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases
20 May 2020
Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care
19 May 2020
What $6,553 Buys You in America: A Luxury Watch, a Year at Valdosta State, or a PPO for One – the 2020 Milliman Medical Index
23 April 2020
Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts
21 April 2020
The Patient-as-Payor in the Coronavirus Pandemic
18 March 2020
Estimates of COVID-19 Medical Costs in the US: $20K for inpatient stay, $1300 OOP costs
17 March 2020
Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers
26 February 2020
Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America
24 February 2020
Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health
18 February 2020
The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts
7 October 2019
The Hospital CFO in the Anxiety Economy – My Talk at Cerner’s Now/Next Conference
27 June 2019
Health Care and the Democratic Debates – Part 1 – Medicare For All, Rx Prices, Guns and Mental Health
3 April 2019
Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health
1 April 2019
In the U.S., Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience
5 October 2018
How MedModular Fits Into the New Lower-Cost, High-Quality, Consumer-Enchanted Healthcare World
5 September 2018
The Top Pain Point in the Healthcare Consumer Experience is Money
4 September 2018
Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill
13 June 2018
As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress
10 May 2018
Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.
25 January 2018
In the U.S., Spend More, Get Less Health Care: the Latest HCCI Data
12 December 2017
Will Getting Bigger Make Hospitals Get Better?
5 December 2017
Six Healthcare News Stories to Keep Hospital CFOs Up At Night
19 September 2017
Patients Are Looking to Finance Healthcare Over Time
15 September 2017
Healthcare Overtreatment in the U.S. – Risky and Costly
28 August 2017
Patients’ Healthcare Payment Problems Are Providers’, Too
19 June 2017
Consumer Experience Is An Integral Part of the Healthcare Experience
16 June 2017
Pharmacy and Outpatient Costs Will Take A Larger Portion of Health Spending in 2018
5 December 2016
U.S. Healthcare Spending Hit Nearly $10,000 A Person In 2015
29 November 2016
Both Healthcare Prices and Use of Services Driving Up Spending
8 July 2016
More Patients Morph Into Financially Burdened Health Consumers
12 May 2016
Happy Patients, Healthy Margins – the Hard ROI for Patient-Centered Care
29 February 2016
Tying Health IT to Consumers’ Financial Health and Wellness
9 February 2016
Rural Hospitals in America – Health Disparities, Hospital Disparities
20 October 2015
Virtual Visits Would Conserve Primary Care Resources in US Healthcare
5 October 2015
The Tricky Journey From Volume To Value In Health Care – Prelude To Health 2.0
23 June 2015
Bridging a Commercialization and Design Chasm, StartUp Health Allies With Aurora Health Care
12 June 2015
Telehealth goes retail
11 May 2015
Consumers seek retail convenience in healthcare financing and payment
24 March 2015
Transparency in health care: not all consumers want to look
7 October 2014
Specialty pharmaceuticals’ costs in the health economic bulls-eye
9 September 2014
$1 in $5 will go to health care in 2023 – the new health engagement is health cost engagement
20 May 2014
We are all self-insured until we get sick – especially if we are women
15 May 2014
The Season of Healthcare Transparency – Consumer Payments and Tools, Part 4
13 May 2014
The Season of Healthcare Transparency – Shopping in a World of High Cost and High Variability – Part 2
12 May 2014
The Season of Healthcare Transparency – HFMA’s Price Transparency Manifesto – Part 1
3 December 2013
Employers will strongly focus on costs in health benefit plans for 2014; so must consumers
5 November 2013
Health costs up, credit down: health consumers face tightening credit markets in the face of rising medical costs
4 November 2013
Moneytalk: why doctors and patients should talk about health finances
25 October 2013
Innovating and thriving in value-based health – collaboration required
21 October 2013
The new era of consumer health risk management: employers “migrate” risk
11 October 2013
Whither price transparency in health care? The supply side may be growing faster than consumer demand
8 October 2013
For Medtech, Design is the New Plastics (advice to The Graduate)
27 September 2013
Taking vitamins can save money and impact the U.S. economy – and personal health
25 September 2013
Consumers’ out-of-pocket health costs rising faster than wages – and a surprising hit from generic drug prices
19 September 2013
The slow economy is driving slower health spending; but what will employers do?
12 July 2013
Urgent care centers: if we build them, will all patients come?
20 June 2013
Health consumers, meet the medical bank
13 June 2013
The part-time medical home: retail health clinics
2 April 2013
U.S. Health Costs vs. The World: Is It Still The Prices, and Are We Still Stupid?
1 April 2013
The Not-So-Affordable Care Act? Cost-squeezed Americans still confused and need to know more
19 March 2013
Arianna and Lupe and Deepak and Sanjay – will the cool factor drive mobile health adoption?
5 March 2013
A health economics lesson from Jonathan Bush, at the helm of athenahealth
28 February 2013
Digital health investment: greenhousing innovation and the accelerator
21 February 2013
Required reading: TIME Magazine’s Bitter Pill Cover Story
29 January 2013
Butter over guns in the minds of Americans when it comes to deficit cutting
14 December 2012
Call them hidden, direct or discretionary, health care costs are a growing burden on U.S. consumers
19 November 2012
The state of health informatics: positive ROI, but a shortage of talent and comprehensive data
15 May 2012
A health plan or a car: health insurance for a family of four exceeds $20K in 2012
7 May 2012
It’s the prices and the technology, stupid: why U.S. health costs are higher than anywhere in the world
7 March 2012
More people in American have trouble paying medical bills: prognosis worse before better
2 February 2012
The state of health IT in America: thinking about the Bipartisan Policy Center report on health IT
31 January 2012
From volume to value: how health execs see the future of health care
30 January 2012
We are all health illiterates: navigating the health system in a sea of paper and financial haze
2 November 2011
Get into the sunshine, church is out – the GAO report on health care price transparency
13 June 2011
Physicians won’t be celebrating Independence Day, at least when it comes to their practices
11 May 2011
The average annual health costs for a U.S. family of four approach $20,000, with employees bearing 40%
9 March 2011
Self-service health: consumers want the same kinds of online services available to them in other aspects of their lives
24 January 2011
Don’t underestimate the costs of adopting health IT
17 August 2010
How to save $40 billion in health care: implement health IT in hospitals
28 July 2010
Health reform = meaningful use among health executives
29 June 2010
Hospital marketing and Mad Men: national brands go direct-to-consumer