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Health savings accounts have not been the harbingers of healthcare equity many folks assumed they would be. While they have fallen short in terms of making healthcare more equitable, HSAs still have a lot of untapped potential.

With nurse turnover and burnout in nurses both on the rise, travel nurses are helping fill staffing shortages in hospitals. While it’s an arguably necessary solution given the state of care, outsize travel nurse pay is creating more problems than the approach solves.

When medical bills go unpaid, those low payment rates have ripple effects that eventually circle back to employers in the form of higher insurance premiums. Here’s what employers can do about it.

Dr. Jay Moore, chief clinical officer at Paytient, sits down with Chris Labrecque, president of the Employee Benefits Group at Insurance Office of America, to discuss employee engagement and benefits. He advocates for a unique approach to employee engagement that reduces risk for the employer while also helping with employee healthcare benefit expenses.

Why is healthcare so expensive in the U.S.? Many folks assume soaring prescription prices and expensive medical services are behind the rising costs of healthcare, but the actual answer might surprise you. Read on to learn more about healthcare costs.

People delay seeking healthcare for a wide variety of reasons — based on everything from financial concerns to convenience — but those delays come with a cost. In this post, we try to illustrate the potential savings of resolving payment-related delays in care for a commercially insured population.