Payments
Saturday Night Live debuted in 1975, meaning that if you were a member of the generation that watched the first seasons of the show, you’re in “the demographic that clings to checks.” according to the pundits. This past weekend, SNL enlightened viewers as to a few exaggerated benefits of “cheques” that we normally don’t promote…
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A newly released research report from Business Insider Intelligence makes the case that, compared to other industries, the United State Healthcare industry has been slow to embrace new payment systems and processes. They point out, for instance, that approximately 77% of healthcare providers still use paper-based patient billing methods, according to an MGMA and Navicure…
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This year’s education schedule at the HIMSS Conference, held this week at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, is awash in AI-related material, notes HealthCare Innovation in a post this week. To name a few: Session MLAI03, “Keynote: Synergies Between Man and Machine”; Session MLAI04, “State of the Industry: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence…
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As is his tradition, Dan Michelson, CEO of Strata Decision Technology, took his best shot at condensing the presentations he’d seen at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (last week in San Francisco). Over 40,000 players were in town from every corner of the healthcare ecosystem. However, if you want to hear the heartbeat of what’s happening at…
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Venmo sustained a transaction loss rate of 0.40% in March, up from 0.25% in January, according to internal PayPal documents they reviewed. As reported in Digital Transactions: The losses sent Venmo’s first-quarter operating loss to approximately $40 million, a 40% increase over what PayPal had expected, the documents revealed.…
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You read that right: About a quarter of all US hospitals — 26% — do not have an effective healthcare revenue cycle management solution in place, according to a new Black Book survey. According to RevCycle Intelligence, Black Book surveyed over 4,640 individuals from 522 hospitals and healthcare delivery networks regarding their use of 165 revenue…
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RevCycle Intelligence reports on a new survey that healthcare organizations are losing revenue because they are failing to properly manage referrals and patient leakage. Some of the report’s findings: There’s a gap between priority and action. Some 87% of healthcare executives say patient leakage is a high priority, but 23% don’t track leakage and 20% don’t…
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In today’s “retail medical market” with heightened RCM patient focus, improving a patient’s financial experience is a key to healthcare revenue cycle management success, according to the Senior Regional Director of Revenue Cycle at Ascension Healthcare. RevCycleIntelligence.com reports that the ability to implement self-service technology and give accurate price estimates is key to improving the patient experience…
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Results of a recent a recent JAMA study as reported in EHR Intelligence reveal that a disturbing amount of hospitals fail to comply with federal and state regulations for patient EHR and paper health records requests. This is especially damaging in today’s healthcare retail climate, where patients understandably want to know what their costs are. Researchers made…
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A study from Eliciting Insights shows that, while adoption of revenue cycle technology is brisk, some medical facilities are hesitant to adopt automated remittance posting in spite of its proven ability to solidify the bottom line in challenging times. Based on survey responses from 179 hospital revenue cycle executives, here are some takeaways as reported on Becker’s Hospital CFO…
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