Patient Payment Trends Moving Forward
Patient Payments in Healthcare are Changing In spite of a “hot-vaxxed summer,” the COVID-19 pandemic lingers, and sadly, even more robustly in some places than ever before. It’s also continuing to take its toll on healthcare consumers, both psychologically and financially. That’s one of several reasons why it’s more critical than ever for healthcare providers to stay atop of the most recent payment trends, all of which point to placing more control in patients’ hands when it comes to paying their healthcare bills. Here are several of the major trends to watch. Telehealth: Not Just a Fad Anymore Telehealth became a unique solution for non-urgent care requirements during the onset of the pandemic, driving potentially years’ worth of technological change into a matter of months. Via this experience, healthcare providers discovered that telehealth worked quite well in primary care, particularly in its diagnostic and follow-up capabilities. “You end up with con...