UVA Health to Cancel Tens of Thousands of Judgments and Liens
On April 19, 2021, the University of Virginia Health System announced that it would be canceling a pool of judgments and liens dating back to the 1990s. The move will...
Patient Financial Services
Are Early Out Services Banned in Texas? An Examination of How Texas Debt Collection Requirements Apply to Early Out Entities
The term “early out entity” is generally defined as a third party that performs business office services (“extended office services” or “EBO services”) on behalf of hospitals and other medical...
New Jersey's Out-of-Network Healthcare Billing Law Goes Into Effect
New Jersey’s Out-of-Network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act (the Act), codified as NJSA 26:2SS, in now in full effect. The Act, signed by New Jersey Governor Phil...
Are Physician Staffing Companies Killing the Patient Experience and Bottom Line?
Many Emergency departments in the US contract with a third party whose job it is to employ and manage physicians, handle the billing, as well as manage the full revenue...
Are You Missing Value-Based Payments? Patient Experience Is Key
This article originally appeared on the Ontario Systems Blog. It is republished here with permission. The 2016 InstaMed Trends in Healthcare Payments Report indicates 58% of patients polled wanted to...
Will 2018 Be the Year States Shore Up Balance Billing Legislation?
Continuing the trend of steadily increasing attention to the issue of balance billing, 2018 has wasted no time kicking off activity to move the needle in the direction of more comprehensive...
New Mexico’s Study on Balance Medical Billing Echoes National Concerns
The New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance (OSI), in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at the University of New Mexico (RWJF/UNM) recently released a study of...
Manage Rising Self-Pay Account Volumes with These 3 Key Disciplines
This article previously appeared on the Ontario Systems Blog and is republished here with permission. A recent CDC publication states 39% of Americans between the ages of 18-64 in 2016...
5 Compliance Hot Spots to Consider when Choosing a Patient Finance Vendor
The healthcare provider community has been distracted from its central role of providing quality clinical care. Instead, providers and hospital financial executives are grappling with insurers under pressure, uncertainty about...
Integrated Vendor Partnership Helps Hospitals Manage Patient Self-Pay Challenge
The following is a discussion I had with Manoj Chabra, CEO, DCS Global and Ed Caldwell, Chief Revenue Officer at CarePayment about the integrated vendor partnership they began in 2017,...