Billing and Collections

Aetna Pay has shown results of close to $10 million in payments in three months by delivering an adjudicated bill that patients can more easily understand.

TransUnion's Jonathan Wiik weighed in on study released at HIMSS18 that shows Americans can't afford their healthcare now, and it will get worse.

Goshen Health CFO Amy Floria told attendees at the HIMSS18 Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit they can cut bad debt by simply communicating with patients sooner.

While EHRs were implemented with the idea that they would reduce administrative costs, Harvard and Duke researchers found primary care services cost providers about $100,000 annually.

Billing process causes so much confusion that patients say they aren't 100 percent sure what they owe until the collections agencies call. Providers and payers must band together on smarter benefit design.

HIMSS18 presenters explain how Hackensack Meridian matches precision payment to precision medicine with an innovative approach to create 'lanes of care' that determine efficacy in terms of both cost and outcomes.

While MVA and workers' compensation claims are only a small percentage of a healthcare organization's total claims, they can amount to millions of dollars in annual revenue for many hospitals and secure higher reimbursement rates than commercial insurance.

Its new Insurance Checker feature seeks to ease a common pain-point: deciphering, understanding and verifying health insurance.

According to HFMA, 50 percent of American hospitals are now charging upfront fees for non-emergency visits to the emergency room.

Unfortunately, many healthcare providers are missing out on things like electronic billing, email capture.