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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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The check is in the mail Fraud awareness Treasury checks and image analysis The old adage “the check’s in the mail” is somewhat appropriate right now as the government ramps up the stimulus program with $1,200 coming to many Americans. In the OrboNation blog post yesterday, we provided a quick estimate of the number of…
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The unsung heroes of healthcare: back office RCM What are the effects of coronavirus on RCM? Outlook for the near future While the world is adjusting to life under self-quarantine to flatten the curve of the COVID-19, the heroes of healthcare are those providing treatment in the field. Doctors, nurses, volunteers, ambulance drivers, just to…
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OrboGraph’s dynamic webinar entitled Change is Inevitable – How Will You Respond? — co-hosted with NICE Actimize — provided fresh insight into the nature of fraud. The webinar provides information and scenarios to show how fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated in their methods of committing fraud and how incorporating new technologies like Artificial Intelligence and…
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During 2019, more than 1.9 million consumers cashed FTC checks received as a result of law enforcement cases. When consumers don’t cash their refund checks, the FTC uses that money to send additional mailings to ensure the maximum amount of money is returned to consumers. Any remaining refund money is sent to the U.S. Treasury.
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HFMA has stepped forward in partnership with Change Healthcare with a look at the opinions and actions of some of the most forward-thinking voices in the field. This roundtable interview with leaders in revenue cycle and technology provides invaluable insight for revenue cycle servicers, who are now facing mounting challenges of increasing paper-volumes, and a need for modern, end-to-end revenue cycle processes.
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An article at MarketWatch.com notes that “there are more than 30 million small businesses in the United States and the majority cite cash flow as the biggest challenge they face.” With the Coronavirus, this is probably an understatement. Market leader Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for…
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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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From the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta comes an informative overview of check usage entitled U.S. Consumers’ Use of Personal Checks: Evidence from a Diary Survey. The authors look at 1,600 individual transactions to gain an understanding of what check payments are currently used for—by dollar value, and by payee—and who uses checks (in terms of demographics and income).
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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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