High Deductible Health Plans: Take Accounts Receivable Action Now
The American Journal of Orthopedics® – November/December 2017
by Karen Zupko, President
If you missed the recent headlines, Why Patients Delay Medical Payments: 12 findings 1 and You think your health insurance costs too much. Try being a farmer.2, you may not be too worried about your ever-rising accounts receivables. But you should be.
The facts in these stories and the 2017 Employer Health Benefits Survey,3 released on September 19 by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), are alarming. Let’s look at some of the survey results.
Since 2007, the average family premium has increased 55% and the average worker contribution toward the premium has increased 74%.3 How does that translate into dollars and cents? Well, the average annual premiums this year are $6690 for single coverage and $18,764 for family coverage.