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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]; registration may be required
May 7, 2024
"The decision eliminates an option that was geared toward bringing primary care to residents of underserved markets.... For the strategy to succeed, ... Walmart would have had to overcome recent systemic trends.... Legacy providers are dealing with the same headwinds but generally have more margin for error."
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]; registration may be required
Oct. 30, 2025
"Accelerating healthcare costs have less to do with hospital and physician services than with surging drug spending ... [Data suggests] advanced therapies increasingly are taking the place of procedure-based care. For example, whereas GLP-1 use increased by more than 700% during a recent five-year period, bariatric surgery rates were flat to declining. Similarly, SGLT2 inhibitor patients more than tripled, while cardiac catheterization volumes declined slightly."
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]; registration may be required
Aug. 12, 2025
"[H]ospitals, insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) all are under scrutiny by Congress in efforts to curb the growth in healthcare costs. The Senate Health, Labor Education and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a July 31 hearing to examine ways to make healthcare more affordable for consumers and other purchasers, and the discussion focused on various stakeholder groups."
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]
Dec. 17, 2014
"For the utilization of inpatient services, on average, executives expect a 3 percent decrease. Per [Milliman Health Care Guidelines (HCG)] benchmarks, a well managed population should expect to see a 30 percent decrease, relative to a loosely managed population. Fifty-three percent of executives expect growth in the utilization of emergency services. HCG benchmarks suggest a 35 percent reduction of visits per person between loosely and well managed populations."
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]; registration may be required
Aug. 31, 2017
"Drug prices are expected to increase by 9.9 percent this year ... One of the main causes of frustration among consumers is in their inability to see a clear rationale for why prices are rising and what exactly they are paying for.... With the changing climate in healthcare policy, price transparency has come to the forefront as people consider how to manage their medical spending. Price transparency can help drive down healthcare costs in by increasing pressure on providers to control costs and ensure that patients receive the highest quality of care possible for the price they pay."
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]; registration may be required
Feb. 26, 2024
"On its incident page, Optum listed more than 100 Change Healthcare services that were affected. Among various other core functions being impacted are benefits verification, claims submission and status updates, remittance information transmittal and prior authorization. As of Feb. 25, Optum had not offered new information about the attack nor a timeline for when Change Healthcare's systems will be up and running."
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]
Nov. 1, 2020
"80% of consumers utilize a payer or provider website (or other resource) to research healthcare costs. And 47% of consumers choose a provider based on costs. Only 53% of survey respondents reported being provided with clear out-of-pocket costs in advance of treatment and 48% report having 'partial to no' understanding of their financial responsibility for their medical bill."
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]; registration may be required
Dec. 24, 2021
"CMS actuaries reported that healthcare spending accelerated dramatically during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vastly higher federal spending was the big driver of the rise in spending growth. The growth in spending on hospital services was virtually flat. Significant numbers of Americans continue to report having trouble with healthcare costs[.]"
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]
Sept. 10, 2019
"The use of Groupon and other pricing tools is symptomatic of a healthcare market where patients desperately want a deal, according to a [recent article]. What’s driving consumers to use such pricing tools for healthcare services is the high cost of care (and high cost sharing for those who are insured) coupled with the lack of price transparency that enables patients to shop for scheduled elective services."
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Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]
Apr. 14, 2019
"HHS is interested in helping employers use healthcare navigation services and maybe incorporating them into federal healthcare programs. Employers that feature such services said sizable shares of covered employees are using them. Concierge services can provide assessments of quality and quantify prices for patients to obtain short- and long-term savings."
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