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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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TV News Reports “New” Mobile RDC Check Fraud Scam

September 11, 2019

The ability of fraudsters to create an image of a check is not necessarily a new technique. What is newsworthy is accessibility.

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Winning Strategies for Value Based Reimbursements (VBR)

September 9, 2019

At the The 2019 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices conference, Senior Associate Ken Carr provided a deep dive into that subject in his session entitled Are You Ready For Value-Based Reimbursement? An Executive Guide For Assessing Readiness In A Value-Based Market, which is summarized at the Open Minds website. During the session, Mr. Carr zeroed…

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Cryptocurrency vs. Real-Time Payments vs. Checks; Which Will Win?

September 4, 2019

When Facebook announced its Libra payment system, reactions were varied, to say the least. Can a gigantic company that cannot be trusted to safeguard our heretofore private information be ready to handle cryptocurrency? PYMNTS.com wonders if another giant company, Walmart, might have a better chance to succeed in the payments field, particularly in light of…

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5 Thoughts on AI Transforming RCM

August 29, 2019

Becker’s Hospital Review has looked over some recent studies and surveys to create a short and sweet list of insights regarding Artificial Intelligence and its role in transforming the Revenue Cycle Management process. The magic spot is the intersection between overcoming costs and creating a better, more effective patient experience. Yes, artificial intelligence implementation helps…

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Cloud Computing: Now a Standard FinTech Tool

August 27, 2019

It seems like not so long ago cloud computing was a nifty pie-in-the-sky idea (see what we did there?) that we’d eventually embrace along with personal jet packs and resorts on the moon. While the jet packs and moon lodgings are still off in the future, let’s make one thing clear: cloud computing is not…

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The Benefits of Automation at Scale

August 22, 2019

As reported at McKinsey.com, an analysis by the McKinsey Global Institute (covering more than 800 jobs and over 2,000 work activities) showed that: Globally, almost half the activities employees perform—which account for nearly USD 16 trillion in wages—could potentially be automated using existing proven technologies. Automation will transform far more jobs than it will eliminate.…

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OrboGraph Recognized as “Top 10 Financial Fraud Detection Solutions Providers 2019” by CFO Tech Outlook Magazine

August 19, 2019

Solutions address image-based, real-time fraud prevention and risk mitigation for check transactions Billerica, MA, August 19, 2019 – OrboGraph has been recognized by CFO Tech Outlook Magazine as one of the “Top 10 Financial Fraud Detection Solutions Providers” for 2019. OrboGraph is a premier developer and supplier of intelligent electronic and paper automation in recognition…

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Healthcare Payments Report Outlines Strategies of Payments Leaders

August 15, 2019

The US healthcare payments market is gigantic, and getting bigger. As seen in the chart above, Healthcare expenditure hit $3.65 trillion in 2018 (per projections from CMS) and this spending is only expected to go up and up (again, as seen in the ski-jump above). Does that mean cruise control for players in the healthcare…

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Fed Leaps Into Real-Time Payments

August 13, 2019

The Federal Reserve announced last week that it is working on a real-time payments system, the biggest infrastructure upgrade embraced by the government body since the ACH system went online in 1972. At a speech in Kansas City, Mo., Fed Governor Lael Brainard confirmed what the payments industry has long awaited, and she said the…

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