Slowly but steadily, healthcare is becoming more mobile about payments, and that trend – a very long time in coming – appears to have picked up steam in recent months. And, taken one step further, recent activity along those lines is helping to prepare the...
A payment app being launched by health insurer Anthem Inc. will allow consumers use their smartphones to schedule and pay for medical visits, get diagnoses and text with doctors. People can use the service even if they’re not Anthem customers, The Wall Street Journal reports. The...
Payment tech company Patientco has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace with two new payment solutions, according to a release. One of them is called Patientco Patient Payments, which offers support for self-service payments through MyChart. The other is Patientco Encrypted Device Integration, which lets...
Consumers are increasingly responsible for out-of-pocket healthcare costs — even with insurance. Some opt for payment plans when available; others just don’t pay their bills. Mounting debt has resulted in hospitals resorting to aggressive tactics to collect unpaid bills, including lawsuits and garnishing of wages....
Healthcare needs some fixing, especially when it comes to providing a continuum of efficient care, making it affordable — and getting providers paid. Lots of specialists are working on the problems, from Amazon to JPMorgan. FinTech firms are in the mix, too, as acquisitions and...
Stoking fears that Amazon will disrupt pharmacies, a CVS legal filing is reportedly aiming to prevent an ex-executive from working at the eCommerce retailer’s recently-acquired subsidiary PillPack. Jefferies Analyst Brian Tanquilut notes that the filing claims that PillPack is seeking a move that would cut...
Elective medical procedures — specific medical services consumers want or require, but that are not covered in full by their current insurance providers — are popular in the U.S. According to PYMNTS, 63 million consumers have them, which makes up as much as 10 percent...
The demand for elective medical procedures in the U.S. is sky-high, but high costs severely limit consumers’ access to them. The elective medical procedures market is 63 million consumers-strong, and accounts for as much as 10 percent of America’s healthcare economy. That adds up to...
The United States is currently weathering a healthcare worker shortage that is estimated to get quite a bit worse before it gets better. According to healthcare staffing consultancy Mercer, to cover the needs of an aging population as baby boomers sail into their golden years,...
