Patient Financial Communications: Emergency Department

In this session, you will hear how Regional One Health has created a successful complex CAE program, focused on uninsured medically and socially complex patients, who are high cost, high need. You'll also see how they have demonstrated improved outcomes from cost, utilization, quality, and satisfaction perspectives which have made a positive impact to the financial position of the organization.

Relying on aggressive financial policies and collection tactics won't help your organization adapt to the "patient as payer" model, especially after the pandemic.  Instead, you need a strategy that helps patients easily navigate the financial responsibilities associated with their care.

This session will involve first-hand observations about today's consumer financial decision-making trends and explore insights from a recent survey of over 2,000 U.S. adults who visited a doctor or healthcare facility within the past year for routine, follow-up, or unplanned care, and will inform how to best address patient financial concerns.

With the rise of patient as payer, many healthcare organizations are offering a greater variety of financing plans and increasing flexible options. This session will help attendees understand how to determine the best plan for each patient. In addition, the speakers will share the pros and cons of in-house financing plans versus third-party financing options and the experience and impact of both patient and provider.