Billing and Collections
Financial status desktop within EHR platform helped provider recover from a $15 million loss.
System shifts cost estimation, financial assistance and post-discharge collections to an automated framework.
Estimate tools, system-wide access to balance information and patient portals all serve to boost collections and patient convenience.
Judge also ruled that Humble Surgical Hospital in Humble, Texas, was paying 30 percent kickbacks for facility fees to 103 physicians in exchange for referrals.
Anthem, Cigna have already ended policy of prior authorization for medication assisted treatment for substance use disorders.
Studies show that when consumers must spend a big chunk of their own money on their care, they can cut back by as much as 15 percent.
Medical bills paid through the mail decline with each younger generation, with millennials paying by mail at a rate of 15 percent.
Providers now spend eight minutes on average, and up to 30 minutes on manual tasks like making phone calls, sending faxes and mailing correspondence.
Leaders share what is still needed to provide the best care while safeguarding the health of the sector.
Under pressure from health insurance industry, CMS quietly backed off repayment demands, settled the audits in 2012 for just under $3.4 million.