Payments
The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020, going into effect on January 1, 2022 for most consumers enrolled in individual and group health insurance plans. As discussed in this space previously, the new law addresses “surprise” medical bills in any of the following three circumstances as described by the Commonwealth Fund: An…
Read MoreThe OCC’s senior deputy comptroller for midsize and community bank supervision, Sydney Menefee, recently spoke to American Banker about some of the changes she’s observed in the decade since the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last overhauled its supervision of small and midsize banks. “The industry has evolved, and we have to evolve,…
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Read MoreCorcentric CEO Matt Clark talked to PYMNTS about moving healthcare, insurance and financial services into the digital age. The conversation came against a backdrop in which 71% of surveyed chief financial officers (CFOs) at finance and insurance companies and 58% of healthcare and medical company CFOs said they expect the digitization of their payments processes to speed up…
Read MoreVictoria Dougherty, Fiserv’s Director of Product Management, Financial and Risk Management Solutions, notes that “reports of the paper check’s death have been greatly exaggerated.” Most people still write and cash checks, even if they do it less frequently. Plus, with fewer checks in circulation, the checks people write and receive – and the funds tied…
Read MoreA recent Forbes article takes the reader on a nostalgic trip to another era: If you’re of a certain age, you might remember going to a drive-thru bank, where you’d put your deposit into a container outside the bank building. Your money was then sucked up via pneumatic tube and plopped onto the desk of…
Read MoreEPAM Continuum released a report entitled Regional Banks Reimagined. This project presents the results of their annual survey covering attitudes and behaviors of banking customers around the globe. In their inaugural effort, they surveyed 4,500 consumers across four countries to understand their beliefs; for 2021, EPAM surveyed more than 21,000 consumers across seven countries. The…
Read MoreBill Siwicki, feature editor for Healthcare IT News, spoke to Lynn Carroll, COO at HSBLOX, about the roles of blockchain, AI, and machine learning in value-based care. (For a refresher on the ins-and-outs of blockchain, click here.) Mr. Carroll noted that “20% of people can represent 80% of expenses.” Therefor, you try to understand where…
Read MoreThe Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare, Inc. (CAQH) recently released their 2021 CAQH Index Report, and it predictably reported that electronic claims management adoption increased in 2020 as healthcare providers shifted, whenever possible, to remote work environments in the face of COVID. RevCycle Intelligence reported, however, that the Index shows healthcare providers still leaving billions…
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