See this article by Breez CEO Nick McLaughlin and Goodroot CEO Mike Waterbury as it appeared on Inside Sources, Smerconish and the Rapid City Journal. With rising inflation and a looming recession, the medical debt crisis in the U.S. is about to get worse. Americans currently owe over $140 billion on past-due medical bills, which is the No. 1 cause of bankruptcy in the country.
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In the aftermath of the pandemic, every nonprofit hospital in the United States is burdened with increasing amounts of bad debt. But many of those hospitals are underutilizing one of the best tools for fixing this problem — an already-established financial assistance program.
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Healthcare technology company Breez Health is now an official partner of National Rural Health Association (NRHA). Breez simplifies patient-facing and internal financial assistance/charity care processes, empowering hospitals to drive organizational growth, and affordability of care to vulnerable members of their communities.
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Over the past ten years, we’ve seen unimaginable developments in cancer treatment, robotics, cardiology—and the list goes on. But there’s still an area that nonprofit hospitals haven’t yet perfected—financial assistance programs. Streamlined financial assistance programs should be the next big initiative for nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.
APS hospitals can now strengthen their financial assistance programs by accessing an online platform that allows patients to quickly and accurately determine eligibility and complete a financial aid application themselves.
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As the newest member of the growing Breez Health team, we sat down with Patrick Whisennand, Senior Account Executive to ask him, “Why Did You Join Breez?”
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Nick McLaughlin, CEO of Breez Health, was interviewed as an expert source on why hospitals benefit when patients use their financial assistance programs.
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Nick McLaughlin, the founder and CEO of Breez Health, wrote this article for MedCity News following the announcement that the White House was launching a medical debt initiative and the three major credit bureaus planned to remove 70% of medical debt from consumers’ credit reports.
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By Nick McLaughlin Question: What are your best practices or procedures for patient cooperation to obtain the documents to qualify them for your Financial/Charity program? Many times, a patient is denied not because they don’t qualify, but because they did not provide all the information we require with our application form. Also, what is the
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By Nick McLaughlin Last week The American Hospital Association released their 3-year strategic plan (2022-2024), which outlines five areas of focus that they will be aligned with. The areas include helping hospitals to: Provide Better Care and Greater Value Ensure the Financial Stability of Hospitals and Health Systems Enhance Public Trust and Confidence in Hospitals
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