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COVID-19 and Its Effect on Labor for Essential Businesses

May 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the labor landscape. With mandated shutdowns across the country for non-essential businesses to slow the spread of COVID-19, we’ve seen a shift toward working remotely, AKA “work-from-home.” Although official statistics are not readily available, according to Netskope – a provider of cloud security services for Fortune 100 companies –…

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RCM: AI is Key for Reducing Administrative Waste

May 8, 2020

In the era of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s more important than ever for revenue cycle management to operate at maximum efficiency. Many practices are facing economic uncertainty and cannot afford any additional fiscal leakage. Indeed, as recently reported by Healthcare Finance News, waste and inefficiency can be a killer in this environment. How much waste…

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Coronavirus Payments Update: The Industry Responds

May 1, 2020

The world continues its effort to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic. Governments have issued stay-at-home orders and have temporarily closed locations of nonessential businesses. PricewaterhouseCoopers recently released survey results that indicate pessimism among CFOs of healthcare organizations and other major companies regarding the impact COVID-19 will have on their bottom lines. As reported…

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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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CAQH Continues to Champion Adoption of Fully Electronic

April 3, 2020

If you are a revenue cycle management professional, then you are most likely familiar with the Council of Affordable Quality Healthcare or CAQH — a non-profit alliance and leader in creating shared initiatives to streamline the business of healthcare. CAQH is at it again, actively tweeting to distribute findings from its 2019 CAQH Index on…

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Optum Report: Revamping HC Administration with AI

March 25, 2020

One of the primary topics scheduled to be covered at this year’s HIMSS20 was — no surprise – the use of Artificial Intelligence in modern healthcare administration. However, the “surprise” came a week ago when HIMSS20 was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic — a wise move given the emerging nature of this worldwide medical…

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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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