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What’s preventing digital healthcare? The costs for healthcare and healthcare insurance have ballooned out-of-sight. This is because costs are fueled by the fee-for-service business model – one that rewards providers (and their business partners) based on the idea that the more care they deliver, the more they get paid. This is a prescription for healthcare services that is unsustainable, regardless of the tax increases planned. <\/span>https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/healthcare\/reports\/2009\/07\/20\/6453\/too-sick-for-health-care\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A digital health platform connecting patients with doctors and cost-transparent services<\/span><\/a> should work to alleviate the out-of-control fees. This model for cost-transparency has controlled costs in several clinical sectors, such as cosmetic healthcare, and could be expanded for use in routine, non-emergency healthcare. Such a platform, that connects consumers with producers, has worked well for nearly every other industry in this digital age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.aei.org\/carpe-diem\/what-economic-lessons-about-health-care-costs-can-we-learn-from-the-competitive-market-for-cosmetic-procedures\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The benefits of a digital health platform<\/strong><\/p>\n

The value of digital healthcare to the patient is cost-transparency, choice and a 24\/7 as-needed availability. This platform is particularly valuable to those without health insurance, like <\/span>part-time workers, the self-employed or those who want to budget and manage their own healthcare needs.<\/span><\/a> This way, they can bypass the cost of the health insurance plans and their endless restrictions and limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The value to the physician\/provider is fast payment, no claims review, no claims denial, no lost claims, no need for pre-authorizations and, reduced billing and scheduling costs.<\/span><\/a> Currently, physicians are dealing with increasing overhead costs and drowning in a sea of pointless rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

Insurance companies control almost everything in healthcare – from medications to testing and treatments. Now, customers and providers are eager to reclaim their independence and get rid of the profiteering gatekeeper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Health laws benefiting health insurance plans and companies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although the benefits of digital healthcare are obvious, eliminating health insurance companies will be no easy task. The healthcare insurance arena is severely impacted by a minefield of State and Federal laws creating many potential legal pitfalls. Furthermore, despite illnesses and treatments being the same, there are significant differences between the various States\u2019 healthcare laws – from HIPPA to corporate practice laws, fee-splitting, self-referral, anti-kickback and patient inducement laws, the list goes on and on. Commonly, lobbying is used by insurance companies to buy influence and protection for their industry.<\/span> https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/the-health-insurance-solution<\/span><\/a>
\nMany of these legal issues represent significant barriers to enacting digital healthcare innovation and, come at the expense of patients, physicians and employers. Regardless of the fact that a cost-transparent healthcare model can help rein in the runaway costs of medical care \u2013 ultimately, nothing will change if there is no reform on the current laws dictating healthcare.<\/span><\/p>\n

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