Report Indicates Patients Seek Transparency, Choices and Convenience in Health Care Billing

A new report released this month by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) describes the U.S. health care industry’s billing and payment system as “a horse-and-buggy in a world contemplating driverless cars. ”Explaining that historically Americans were patients rather than purchasers of their health care services, the report indicates that current reforms and increasing deductibles are putting individual patients…