Archive for August 2018
GoFundMe and healthcare costs, why crowdfunding is now in vogue for paying for your services.
GoFundMe is a crowd-sourcing financial platform that many of your patients are using to pay for your care to the tune of $650 million. One of the reasons that this has taken off is that the patient is now responsible for up to 40% of healthcare costs when the have insurance. The introduction of high…
Read MoreThe Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care
Here is a headline that practice owners and patients alike are not surprised by at all, The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care, Hidden from view: The complexity of the system comes with costs that aren’t obvious but that we all pay. The NYTimes article highlights that in 1999 30% of health care costs were due…
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