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Strategic Treasurer: 90% of Banks Rank BEC as Top Fraud Concern

July 13, 2021

Once again, we see evidence that the COVID pandemic boosted the frequency and sophistication of fraud activity. As tallied in the 2021 Treasury Fraud & Controls Survey by Strategic Treasurer and related by Omri Kletter, global VP for fraud and financial crime at Bottomline, a good deal of fraud is due to the contortions businesses had to make — in a hurry — to accommodate remote work.

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The No Surprises Act: Advanced EOBs on the Horizon

July 9, 2021

The No Surprises Act — which is part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act introduced earlier this year — is a pretty straightforward proposition: It is designed eliminate some of the surprises that group health plan participants encounter from unexpected charges. Health Affairs This Week Podcast provides a tidy summary of the act. An initiative that affects revenue cycle needs further discussion : Advanced EOBs.

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Building a Platform Requires AI Diversity & Partnership

July 8, 2021

Artificial Intelligence can be a dizzying technology to understand. While the term gets tossed around everywhere you turn, it’s important for financial institutions to have a strong baseline of knowledge on the different types of AI, in order to better leverage the technology.

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Seven-Step Deposit Fraud: Would Your Bank Catch This?

July 7, 2021

Banks in New Jersey were taken for many thousands of dollars The scam was a fairly elaborate, multi-step affair $250,000 had been stolen before the scammers were caught We all know about scams involving passing fake or altered checks, but what about elaborate multi-step operations? Here’s an interesting “What if?” exercise — could your bank…

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Hospital Financial Performance: The Post-COVID Recovery Begins

July 2, 2021

This comes as no surprise to anyone in the industry: The COVID-19 pandemic did a number on the healthcare economy, ravaging volumes, revenues, and other financial metrics. We may be on our way to recovery, however. Kaufman Hall’s latest Hospital Flash Report paints an optimistic picture, reporting increases across hospital volumes, revenues, and margins last month compared…

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A Real Life Innovation Lab Story at Royal Bank of Canada

July 1, 2021

Recently, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has taken an approach similar to that of OrboGraph’s OrbNet AI Innovation Lab to bring AI technology to the financial industry; partnering with NVIDIA and Red Hat to create Borealis AI. But what is Borealis AI? And what do they do? Well, Borealis AI describes themselves as: A world-class AI research…

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OrboNation Newsletter: Healthcare Payments Edition – June 2021

June 30, 2021

In case you missed it, over the past month, we have published incredible content on our OrboNation Blog and Modernizing Omnichannel Check Fraud Detection. Review the latest OrboNation Newsletter online or via PDF download.

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Over Two Thirds of All Stimulus Phone Scams Reported by Five Key States in the US

June 29, 2021

Stimulus and unemployment check proliferation requires higher-than-ever vigilance Scammers are using the phone to go after checks Which states are the biggest targets? As noted in this space previously, an unfortunate side-effect of the distribution of stimulus checks has been heightened activity by scammers attempting to take advantage of the situation via various fraud tactics.…

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OrboNation Newsletter: Check Processing Edition – June 2021

June 29, 2021

In case you missed it, over the past month, we have published incredible content on our OrboNation Blog and Modernizing Omnichannel Check Fraud Detection. Review the latest OrboNation Newsletter online or via PDF download.

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Despite Challenges, RCM Technology Leaps Ahead During Pandemic

June 25, 2021

RevCycleIntelligence reports on a new survey that shows about three-quarters of hospitals and health systems in the US deployed revenue cycle management (RCM) technology or underwent active technology deployments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey polled over 350 CFOs and revenue cycle leaders at hospitals and health systems between December 17, 2020, and Feb 5, 2021, using…

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