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After several hundred Tips, you should understand the relationship between health insurance premiums and the cost of health care.

So here we go again, thanks to a spate of health care related articles this week that make me feel like Edvard Munch! 

To wit, this sampling.

MILWAUKEE, May 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sift Healthcare, a leading innovator in AI-powered healthcare payment solutions, today announced the successful close of its $20M Series B funding round.

What is Sift? 

Directly from their website: Sift Healthcare provides advanced decision support solutions for managing the increasingly complex healthcare revenue cycle. Sift provides insights necessary to accelerate insurance payments, reduce overall denials, increase patient responsibility collections, monitor payer contracts and drive smarter workflows.

Understand what that’s saying?

Last, this front page headline from Friday’s WSJ: More Hospitals Demand Payment Before Surgery

Still don’t get it?

Fine. Try this.

Download this Tip. Lay it on the floor in front of you and read it while bending over.

Sorry. Maybe I should take a few days off!