Patients have become a top-three payor for most health systems, and they're the worst-performing one on every metric that matters:
• 25-30 cents to collect a patient dollar vs. 4-5 cents for a commercial dollar
• 30-50% yield vs. 95-97% from payors
• $44.9B in uncompensated care coming in 2026-2027
I dug into how brand partner Cedar (
@CedarNY) is rebuilding patient financial engagement around this shift, including a stat that should end the propensity-to-pay era on its own: accounts with high P2P scores yielded 51% LESS than bills with no score at all.
Get the full breakdown between what works and what doesn't in my latest deep dive: