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Patient Friendly Billing e-Bulletin

Patient Friendly Billing® provides practical strategies for improving patient financial communications and creating a more patient-friendly revenue cycle. This e-bulletin helps identify business opportunities in the consumerism movement.

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Success with Patient Friendly Billing Basics
Sharp HealthCare used Patient Friendly Billing^® principles to redesign its patient bills, which helped stabilize falling self-pay collections while reducing the number of phone calls from patients who had questions about their out-of-pocket responsibilities.

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Publication Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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