RevCycle Intelligence November 7, 2023
Many US adults face severe healthcare affordability issues, such as high out-of-pocket costs, medical debt, or forgone care, but even more have healthcare financial strain.
Healthcare affordability is significantly impacting low- and middle-income families, but healthcare financial strain is becoming a more widespread issue for US families, a new study published in Health Affairs indicates.
About 27 percent of non-senior adults lived in families with at least some severe healthcare affordability issues, such as high out-of-pocket cost burden, medical debt, or forgone medical care, researchers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reported in the study. And that percentage jumped to almost 46 percent of US adults when researchers used more broadly defined healthcare financial strains, including delayed...
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