Rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs pose a challenge to patient access to care. When patients don’t believe they can afford a medical bill, they often go [...]
High-deductible healthcare plans have resulted in a rise in patient financial responsibility. This, in turn, has meant that patients are beginning to make decisions [...]
Healthcare consumerism is the rising trend of patients acting more like customers in a traditional retail environment. The primary cause of this change is [...]
The increase of high deductible health plans has not lessened the patient’s inability to pay medical bills. Most are still struggling to pay, and [...]
In our ongoing series on rising patient out-of-pocket expenses, we’ve covered the specific trends happening around patient responsibility in surgical centers, behavioral health, dental [...]
Rising Patient Responsibility: Substance Abuse Continuing our series on increasing patient out-of-pocket costs, today we examine trends in substance abuse treatment. Between the opioid [...]
When most people think about cosmetic surgery, the first thought is often an image of celebrities and other wealthy individuals having vanity procedures done. [...]
In prior posts, we’ve discussed the impact of rising patient costs in a variety of healthcare specialties, including ambulatory surgical centers, behavioral health, and [...]
In recent weeks, we’ve looked at the causes and effects of rising patient costs in other specialty areas, such as ambulatory surgical centers and [...]