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AI Will Optimize RCM: But How Quickly?

April 20, 2020

OrboNation readers are well aware of the value Artificial Intelligence has in Revenue Cycle Management. Still, as reported by RevCycleIntelligence.com, a recent Black Book survey of C-suite executives found less than half (44 percent) of healthcare organizations already use AI in some form or another. On the other hand, 88 percent anticipate widespread implementation within…

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CPT Releases New COVID-19 Code & Description For Testing

March 18, 2020

A key component in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic appeared on March 13, as a new CPT® code — 87635 — streamlining novel coronavirus testing offered by hospitals, health systems, and laboratories in the United States. The American Medical Association provides details on utilizing the new CPT ® code: The full CPT code description…

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2020: Healthcare’s Year of Digital Payments

March 16, 2020

Pymnts.com’s Karen Webster interviews Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards about the world of instant disbursements, and whether their popularity heralds the possibility of eliminating checks in the healthcare spectrum. Their primary conjecture: At the dawn of a new decade, healthcare stands poised to embrace digital payments. Mr. Edwards states that when customers are given a…

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Payment Automation Insights: 2014 to Today

February 28, 2020

Over the past decade, we have seen a tremendous evolution in healthcare, particularly in healthcare payments and revenue cycle management. But how far have we come since 2014? In 2014 we sat down to talk to Mark Brousseau, President of Brousseau & Associates, to get his perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing healthcare payments…

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Wall Street’s Perspective: Health Care Markets to Prosper in 2020

February 19, 2020

Introduction to the Nashville Health Care Council and their events OrboGraph’s participation in the Nashville Health Care Council Summary of the “Wall Street’s View on Prospects for the Health Care Industry” event Nashville is known as the health care capital of the United States — it is, after all, the location for headquarters of 18…

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MIT Sloan & BCG: Winning – and Pioneering – with AI White Paper

February 13, 2020

MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group recently collaborated on a white paper exploring AI as a tool entitled Winning With AI (you can download the paper HERE). Subtitled Pioneers Combine Strategy, Organizational Behavior, and Technology, the white paper is a nice encapsulation of their global survey. Conducted in Spring 2019, the survey attracted…

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2020-2030: Payments In The Next Decade

January 2, 2020

We love this time of year! It’s a week when everyone the payments industry can take a deep breath, celebrate successes, reflect, and then blog about the future. And now that 2020 is upon us, what better time to “look ahead” toward 2030! PYMNTS.com is one of the first publications to make a prediction related…

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A Look Back – and Looking Forward to 2020

December 24, 2019

And another year comes to a close! It’s been our pleasure to share observations, insights, and solutions from across the industry via the OrboNation Blog. As 2019 comes to end, we have much to be thankful for. Most importantly, however, we’re thankful for the clients and customers that are crucial to OrboGraph’s success. Looking back,…

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Media Coverage of Real Time Payments Can be Complicated

December 3, 2019

The FedNow Service, the Federal Reserve’s planned faster payments service, promises to have a positive impact on the speed with payments are processed. As the FED navigates their way toward a solution, The Clearing House continues to promote RTP (real-time payments). But the path to a world of real-time, integrated payments is not an easy…

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Inaccurate Cost Estimation Causes Patient Dissatisfaction

September 13, 2019

Modern insurance plans — and, indeed, cases where people remain un- or under-insured — mean that whenever possible, healthcare consumers want to be able to anticipate potential costs as accurately as possible. This is the dawn of “retail healthcare” when it comes to certain anticipated, nonemergency cases, and consumers have a growing array of resources…

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