When you have self-pay patients on your ledger, there are some ideas you need to keep in mind while awaiting payment. Some of the patients will pay on time and even early while others may take a longer time or…
Whether it’s an emergency or a scheduled surgery or test, thousands of residents in Arkansas depend on the local hospitals to be there for them. They rely on the care and treatment they receive at any of the top-quality Arkansas…
It used to be that people would pay for routine primary care out of pocket, saving their high deductible health insurance plan, if they had one, for emergency situations. While the ACA attempted to create a shift back to value-based…
Ever since the election of President Donald Trump in November, many people (both those who work in healthcare and those who receive it) have been expressing their concerns over one of Trump’s biggest promises: the repealing of the Affordable Care…
There are over 150 hospitals in the state of Oklahoma. Every day, thousands of residents depend on these hospitals to get the care they need, whether it’s a simple test, an important medical procedure or an emergency situation. While Oklahoma…
Literacy is a vague term that means the ability to read, write, speak and do math. Being able to do these skills affects a person’s ability to access information and perform daily tasks. In the medical world, health literacy, or…
With the rise of high deductible health insurance plans, and the amount of self-pay patients, many Americans across the country are faced with crippling medical debt. According to a study done in January 2016, 20% of uninsured patients had difficulty paying…
As President Donald Trump promised, he wasted no time in getting to work. Shortly after being sworn in, he signed an executive order involving the Affordable Care Act, a regulation he has been known to strongly oppose. The executive order…
As a part of the shift toward value-based care, states have been instructed, under the ACA, to be more transparent when it comes to their costs. However, only seven states have succeeded so far in achieving passing grades when it…
When Donald Trump was elected president, he stated that he would waste no time in getting to work. He had made several promises in his 100 Day Plan. One of his promises was to repeal the ACA. President Trump has…
