Theresa Hush

The true key to achieving high savings, more patient volume, and better health outcomes is to effectively use clinical and cost data with physicians to create interventions that improve performance.

Benefit cuts and increasing prices are creating medical debt and bankruptcies. Some consumers respond by avoiding healthcare or abandoning coverage. Their alternative? They don’t pay providers.

Payers can facilitate action on the part of physicians to appreciate the growing awareness and financial responsibility of their patients and to better use a shared decision-making approach. Here’s three ways how.