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Customer Spotlight: Cornerstone Pediatrics

In a previous blog post, we talked about the various benefits healthcare providers see when they integrate payment with their existing practice management system, including greater efficiency, increased security and more opportunities to collect patient payments.

These benefits are highlighted in our most recent case study with Cornerstone Pediatrics. Cornerstone Pediatrics wanted to establish a new billing policy that would help them tackle the challenge of increasing patient payment responsibility. They knew the parents of their patients had many financial responsibilities

Tagged automatic payment collection, integrated healthcare payments, patient responsibility

The Sixth Annual Trends in Healthcare Payments Report is Here!

The Trends in Healthcare Payments Sixth Annual Report: 2015 is now available to download – free of charge. For the last six years, InstaMed has released this report to objectively educate the market and promote awareness, change and greater efficiency through quantitative data from the InstaMed Network and qualitative data from healthcare providers, payers and consumers surveyed nationwide.

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Tagged compliance and security, EFT, ERA, healthcare consumerism, healthcare payments, increase collections, patient payments, patient responsibility, payers, providers, trends

Use Reporting to Diagnose Your Collection Strengths and Weaknesses

Patient payment responsibility continues to grow, and providers need to find ways to streamline the collection process. Since 2010, the amount a consumer must pay before a health plan covers any portion has increased by 67 percent. (Kaiser Family Foundation) To collect these payments, providers have turned to new technologies and collection initiatives to improve efficiency and cater to consumer payment preferences.

However, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Not all patients have the same needs and preferences, and not all healthcare

Tagged increase collections, online payments, patient responsibility

Our Top 10 Favorite Moments From the InstaMed 2016 User Conference

We listened. We learned. We collaborated. We even had a little fun. In no particular order, here are our top 10 favorite moments from the InstaMed 2016 User Conference.

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Our Keynote Speaker Emphasized the Impact of the Digital Experience in Healthcare
We kicked off our conference with a keynote presentation from Brian P. Kalis of Accenture Digital. Brian delivered a data-driven overview of the changing nature of healthcare payments, including a look at the market disruptors that are influencing

Tagged best practice, compliance, consumerism, healthcare payments, patient payments, patient responsibility, payers, providers

91^% of Consumers Are Demanding Price Transparency

The patient’s role in the healthcare payments process has evolved drastically. Ten to twenty years ago, payers and providers managed benefit and care decisions for their patients. Patients relied mainly on their health plan and geography to determine which providers to visit; and payment for services, for the most part, was handled between payers and providers.

Today, healthcare is in the midst of a shift towards a consumer-centric model, and in the process, patients have become empowered consumers who are in

Tagged eligibility, estimate patient responsibility, healthcare consumerism, patient responsibility

Improve Patient Communication for Increased Collections

How do you communicate with your patients about payment responsibility? With the growing trend in patient responsibility, providers need to think about when and how to discuss financial responsibility with patients. Training your staff to have conversations about co-pays, outstanding balances and estimates while the patient is in the office is a critical part of increasing your collections. Having these conversations is a great way to set patient expectations, but it’s also important to have effective communication once the patient

Tagged increase patient satisfaction, patient communication, patient payments, patient responsibility, provider-patient interaction

Setting Expectations for Patients With High Deductible Plans

Every year, from November 1 to January 31, U.S. consumers have the opportunity to enroll in a health plan through public and private exchanges during a period called, “Open Enrollment.” Now, in its third year, Open Enrollment for 2016 is presenting particular challenges for the healthcare industry:

There is an increased push to enroll the last “holdouts” or approximately 10.5 million uninsured consumers who qualify for coverage on the exchanges. (Wall Street Journal)
Deductibles are expected to increase 8 percent to $6,480

Tagged healthcare consumerism, healthcare payments, open enrollment, patient engagement model, patient responsibility

Blog Post Topic: patient responsibility

Customer Spotlight: Cornerstone Pediatrics

The Sixth Annual Trends in Healthcare Payments Report is Here!

Use Reporting to Diagnose Your Collection Strengths and Weaknesses

Our Top 10 Favorite Moments From the InstaMed 2016 User Conference

91^% of Consumers Are Demanding Price Transparency

Improve Patient Communication for Increased Collections

Setting Expectations for Patients With High Deductible Plans

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Blog Post Topic: patient responsibility

Customer Spotlight: Cornerstone Pediatrics

The Sixth Annual Trends in Healthcare Payments Report is Here!

Use Reporting to Diagnose Your Collection Strengths and Weaknesses

Our Top 10 Favorite Moments From the InstaMed 2016 User Conference

91% of Consumers Are Demanding Price Transparency

Improve Patient Communication for Increased Collections

Setting Expectations for Patients With High Deductible Plans

Thank you for your interest in InstaMed.

91^% of Consumers Are Demanding Price Transparency