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Want to Drive Patients Away? Stick with Outdated Billing Practices.
40% of consumers would switch providers to get affordable healthcare payment arrangements.
Finance
3 Topics I Will Hear at the HealthLeaders Revenue Cycle Exchange
Firsthand experiences from the country's most innovative revenue cycles will be shared in West Palm Beach, Florida, next month.
Finance
Priority Health's New Mobile App Includes Cost Estimator
The insurer says 85% of its members prefer to self-serve online.
Finance
As Congress Works To Curb Surprise Medical Bills, N.Y.'s Fix Gets Examined
In 2015, New York passed a surprise billing law that uses 'baseball-style' arbitration as a way to settle payment disputes...
Finance
Use Tech Tools to Avoid Suing Patients
With all the technology options available to health systems today, hospitals should "absolutely not" get to the point where they're...
Finance
How One Employer Stuck a New Mom With a $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby
Dignity Health said its employee, an ER nurse, failed to meet the deadline to add her premature newborn to its...
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Blue Shield of California Launches Real-Time Claims Payment Pilot
The insurer is testing the pilot in Sacramento, as part of a collaboration with OODA Health and Dignity Health.
Finance
Sen. Grassley Questions UVA Health On Findings From KHN Investigation
Over six years, UVA Health filed 36,000 lawsuits against patients seeking a total of more than $106 million in unpaid...
Finance
Financial Turnaround: How Baptist Health South Florida Boosted Net Patient Revenue by $28M
The joint venture, which was first announced in April 2018, increased net patient revenue in its first year.
Finance
VCU Health Will Halt Patient Lawsuits, Boost Aid In Wake Of KHN Investigation
VCU Health, the major Richmond medical system that includes the state?s largest teaching hospital, said it will no longer file...
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3 Reasons to Offer Interest-Free Payment Plans to Patients
Providing interest-free payment plans to patients is about more than facilitating collections; it's also about doing what's right for patients...
Some Alabama Sheriffs Release Sick Inmates to Avoid Paying Their Hospital Bills
Inmates suffering heart attacks, on the verge of diabetic comas and brutalized in jail beatings have been released so sheriffs...