Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

More than 40% of Americans have unpaid medical bills, totaling nearly $200 million, and half of U.S. adults report that they wouldn’t have the money to cover a $500 medical bill. More importantly, providers risk lost revenue each time a patient leaves the office without paying.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2021

A group of California hospitals has had such success with the initial run of its medical billing improvement process that it has expanded far more quickly than it had originally intended.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Medical practices that have a great RCM leader that’s doing a great job making sure they’re paid every dollar they deserve are fine to do it in house. What happens when your medical billing staff leave and you’re faced with the challenging task of replacing them? However, what happens when that leader leaves?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT Project Management. Guillermo Diaz at the Los Angeles Department of Health Services and Ali Modaressi at LANES described why data sharing advancement is more than a policy or technological discussion. Read more… This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 24, 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

“Even with good health insurance, both my Co-Founder and I have received unexpected medical bills for thousands of dollars over the years,” said Kevin Chiu , Co-Founder and CEO. ” To learn more about Certainly Health and its initiatives, please visit certainlyhealth.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When patients have questions about their medical bills, offer support over a variety of communication channels like live chat, text, email, or IVR. He started Inbox Health out of his own frustration paying medical bills, and saw it immediately as an experience problem that needed fixing. Provide enhanced support.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Explaining Medical Bills. An AI-powered chatbot will be available in the future through Epic’s Hello World platform that will help explain complex medical bills to patients. Early response has been positive with some patients commenting how the generated responses are more empathetic than prior communications.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

A new survey of independent medical practices and billing companies has found that they are leaning heavily on telehealth to keep generating income. The survey, which was conducted by Kareo, connected with more than 600 medical practices and 140 medical billing companies. It found that one of […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Technology Partners, LLC, doing business as ImagineSoftwareTM (“Imagine”), a leading provider of medical billing automation software and revenue cycle management applications, today announced it received a strategic growth investment from Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Laura Marquez at the University of Utah Health outlined how to define success in digital transformation in healthcare and shared her thoughts on how AI will impact transformation. Read more… Operational Teams Drive Optimal Health IT System Adoption. Cynthia Casatelli at e4.health million funding round.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2021

Together, Waystar and Patientco will offer patients consumer-friendly experiences when paying medical bills, […]. The combination accelerates transformation in the healthcare industry and dramatically improves the patient financial experience.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 20, 2023

Chronic pain management provider utilizes digital health IT solutions across the organization for improved workflows WESTBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS healow Pay : healow Pay has increased Encore Health Group transactions by 300% since January 2023. This allows providers to focus their time on patients instead of administrative tasks.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

About Access Healthcare Access Healthcare is a leading provider of revenue cycle management services, specializing in medical billing, coding, and accounts receivable management. With a global presence and a commitment to innovation, Access Healthcare delivers efficient, leading-edge solutions to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This acquisition will also enable our EMR and billing divisions to enter new markets in the Canadian Prairies where we look forward to supporting healthcare practitioners’ access to new digital health innovations.”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

At the same time, though, mental health practitioners and patients alike must weigh the security, privacy, and legal challenges of using generative AI , along with bias in algorithms.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Specifically, 50% of health consumers search to see their providers are in-network, to avoid surprise medical bills. 31% want to know prices they have to pay for out-of-pocket expenses. Convenience is top-of-mind: 46% look for convenient locations, and 32% seek convenient hours and accessibility. 39% check reputations.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

And with an increasing number of privately-employed people participating in High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) and other catastrophic plans, there is a widening gap between the employee responsibility (deductibles, out-of-pocket maximums) and policy coverage. When it comes to prescription medications, consumers demonstrate this hesitancy.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

John and Colin debated some hot topics in health IT, including whether big tech is interested in acquiring a payer or provider or whether EHR vendors are making enough strides to make pure-play analytics vendors obsolete. Read more… Reducing Confusion Eases Medical Billing Stress.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s reported that somewhere around 80% of medical bills contain errors, which hurts the patient and the provider. If incorrect patient health information is shared between providers, consequences could be dire.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 20, 2022

It takes about three paper statements , on average, for consumers to pay their medical bills. Just three years ago, 90% of healthcare organizations relied on paper-based billing statements. The following is a guest article by Mark Spinner, President and CEO at AccessOne.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Bring health plans into a shared platform to s treamline health benefits management. U se additional data from insurers’ medical bills to identify treatment gaps, manage costs, and meet quality performance targets.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The report’s insights are based on surveys FMI has conducted over the past two years, as the Foundation has observed that consumers broadening their definition of health to include emotional health, energy levels, and sleep quality.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It’s estimated that up to 80 percent of medical bills contain errors amounting to billions of dollars that are lost annually to payers. Benefits of Implementing a Pre-Payment Model Overreliance on a post-payment claims review process perpetuates systemic inaccuracy and waste.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2023

As such, coders are expected to “speak the language” of physicians and payers, a mistake-prone exercise that drains time from coders and physicians alike. “As

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Medical care prices may have grown at their slowest rate in decades in the past year, but consumers still feel the pinch, with many dipping into savings to pay their medical bills. That’s one reason why self-service options for account management are critical.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, hospital information systems are more designed to support medical billing than clinical decision-making. When diagnosing, physicians need to consider many factors simultaneously and then select the related and unique code from the 68,000-diagnosis code list.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

EHR data is a prime target for cyber attackers, as it includes personal data and medical data that can be resold and used to perpetrate financial fraud, extortion, medical billing fraud, and illicit access to medication. Insecure medical devices can also be exploited to hurt patients and damage institutions.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2024

According to CEO Gautamdev Chowdary, they have trained their voice-to-text transcription on medical input and made it extremely accurate with full automation. They have also achieved 100% accuracy in billing through a few extra features. The ambient voice solution at Medvise.AI focuses on the revenue cycle.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2023

OnPoint Healthcare Partners is the latest ambient clinical voice technology we’ve found that combines expert human authors with AI to take one of the annoying burdens off doctors: writing clinical notes.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These programs, which care for more than 30 million of the nearly 64 million Medicare enrollees , operate on the cutting edge of health care and suffer serious problems in data collection and billing. There’s widespread consensus that payments to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are a mess.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Earlier this year, the American Medical Association (AMA) released its CPT Evaluation and Management (E/M) Code and Guideline Changes for 2023. . These changes directly affect medical coding teams and providers’ day-to-day job responsibilities and how they capture services to receive quick and accurate reimbursements.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Doctors don’t seem flustered by bodily fluids or welts–what they dread is the hour-long calls with insurers, trying to persuade them to cover a test or procedure. There has to be some quality monitoring to prevent fraud and upcoding, but a lot of the time, the doctor just hasn’t coded properly or filled out the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2023

Inbox Health’s data-driven platform makes it easy to automate and personalize patient billing communications, modernizing long-standing industry norms of 30/60/90-day paper statement billing cycles. By improving the patient experience, billers see an increase in profitability, cash flow, and collection speeds.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2022

Despite technology’s ability to eliminate some of the more tedious tasks like filling out endless insurance forms, and paying bills, […]. The following is a guest article by Joel Landau, Founder and Chairman of The Allure Group. Sadly, most of us realize now that the promise of a “paperless society” is unlikely to become a reality.

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