Choosing the Right Debt Buyer
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Hospital Revenue Cycle Strategies for Turbulent Times
This HFMA Executive Roundtable, sponsored by Siemens, focuses on ways various organizations are responding to the day’s shifting market dynamics as well as strategies for securing appropriate payment into the future.
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Patient Payment Responsibility: Real-World Perspectives
In this HFMA Executive Roundtable, sponsored by Emdeon, financial executives share their thoughts on effective strategies for determining and communicating patient payment responsibility prior to service, with particular focus on practical challenges as well as opportunities.
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Hospital Strategies for Addressing Out-of-Pocket Expense
This roundtable describes how some healthcare financial executives are responding to high-deductible plans and developing new payment estimation and collection protocols.
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Getting Rid of Bad Debt Blues
Hospitals are seeking alternative methods to collecting bad debt, such as reviewing their point of collection processes.
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Your Communication Strategy for Effective Receivables Management
A key component of handling bad debt accounts is careful communication with the patient during the collection process. This report, based on a discussion with healthcare finance executives, examines their communication strategies for collecting delinquent receivables.
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Establishing Financing Options for Self-Pay Patients
This roundtable report of senior healthcare finance executives shares their perspectives on planning and implementing finance programs for self-pay patients.
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Paving the Way for Medical Banking
This roundtable discusses the challenges and promises of implementing banking automation to improve the speed and efficiency of the payment process.
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Improving Cash Flow
This report is based on a roundtable discussion with senior healthcare finance executives on ways to improve cash flow based on enhancements in the billing and revenue cycle process.
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Strategies for Reducing Bad Debt
In this education report, healthcare executives discuss successes at their own organizations and various ways to aid payment processes and communications when serving those without private health insurance.
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Preparing for "No-Pay" Events
Publicly listing the never events is easy, but deciding how to handle billing issues related to adverse events is still being sorted out by hospitals. Minnesota and Oregon hospitals share their approaches to this cloudy issue.
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Revenue Cycle Strategies and Technologies for Serving the Uninsured
Hospitals are seeing increasing levels of self-pay activity and greater needs to provide uncompensated care. With this in mind, this report advises healthcare executives on ways they should take a fresh look at core concepts of charity care and bad debt and explores revenue cycle processes and technologies to better serve the needs of those without coverage or who lack adequate coverage.
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Understanding Your True Cost to Collect
The total cost of collecting payment is an important revenue cycle performance indicator. This article considers the most effective ways of determining and reporting cost to collect.
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HFMA Executive Roundtable: Issues in Up Front Collections
An increasing number of Americans are uninsured or under-insured, and as the number of self-pay accounts rises, health care providers are seeking to obtain payment before rather than after rendering services. This report explores the challenges created by such practices.
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