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43% of Consumers Spend Up To A Month Correcting Billing Errors

by Syed Hamza Sohail 01/16/2023 Leave a Comment

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43% of Consumers Spend up to a Month Correcting Billing Errors

What You Should Know:

– In the online survey administered to 800 U.S. consumers who had found at least one medical billing error in the last five years, 41% of the consumers are significantly frustrated trying to address billing errors.  

– Zelis, a company modernizing the business of healthcare, announced findings from a new study on consumer billing conducted in partnership with Hanover Research, an independent research firm. The full results and insights are featured in the white paper, Healthcare Financial Journey: Reducing friction for consumers.

Research-Driven Improvements in the Healthcare Financial Journey

According to the response data, half of the respondents reported incorrect charges of at least $200, and a quarter saw a difference of more than $500 on their bills, adding up to a significant amount of unnecessary healthcare spending when translated at scale.  

Key findings from the research include:  

– The healthcare financial journey is complicated and opaque:  According to survey respondents, knowing whom to contact and how to find the right contact information are the two biggest challenges during the bill correction process. 

– Individuals find it challenging to understand the complexities of healthcare billing and high-cost bills: Only 30% of participants felt extremely confident in their ability to identify an error in their medical bill. 

– Finances are a primary motivator for fixing incorrect bills: 62% of survey respondents said saving money motivated them to attempt correcting a billing error.  

– Consumers typically noticed the error in one of three ways: They compared charges with estimated costs (32%), compared charges to explanation of benefits (29%), or noticed items on the bill that differed from their care experience (29%). 

– The path to bill resolution can be time-consuming: Almost half of respondents (43%) spent up to one month getting bills corrected, and 70% of those who tried to resolve a billing error spent more than two hours on the process.  

To address this frustration, 80% of consumers believe their healthcare insurance plan could have a clearer process for dealing with billing errors, better service, clearer options, and faster and easier resolutions.  

“Our research reinforces that healthcare billing systems are complicated, and bills can be complex and with the potential for errors,” said Michael Axt, Chief Member Empowerment Officer at Zelis. “This negatively impacts healthcare consumers, particularly those with lower incomes or less health literacy. Healthcare organizations have an opportunity to reduce friction in the billing process to support consumers and create a more seamless healthcare financial journey.”  

Incorrect billing is only on the rise as more healthcare providers are asking patients to pay in advance for services based on their estimates, which may not account for claims yet to be processed from other providers and may inflate costs to consumers unnecessarily. 

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