Debit/credit cards find niche in consumer focused healthcare

Community health workers can improve health outcomes and lower costs. So why haven’t they been fully incorporated into the U.S. healthcare system?

Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, had the pleasure of catching up with MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member, Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, who is a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

In this week’s episode of "Tuning In to the C-Suite," Briana Contreras, editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, spoke with Ramin Bastani, CEO of Healthvana.

The latest data showed a 3.9% decrease in national use, dropping from 5.1% of medical claim lines in November to 4.9% in December.

Cyberattacks disproportionately affect healthcare organizations. In 2023, the average data breach cost to a healthcare company was $10.93 million, an 8% increase from the previous year.