Paytient Blog

Giving healthcare consumers more financial responsibility doesn’t necessarily incentivize them to shop around for cost-effective care. Here are four of the main reasons healthcare consumers don’t shop around more.

Paytient’s monthly look at major headlines in the health and benefits space. Our roundup for March 2022 includes everything from changes in medical debt on credit reports to a couple of illuminating studies on HDHPs.

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.

We’re excited to announce the debut of Paytient’s first podcast, Explanation of Benefits. This podcast is designed to shed light on topics of interest to everyone from employers and HR leaders to benefits advisors, brokers, and everyday folks who want to become better-educated consumers of care.