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Clearinghouses are Becoming Obsolete

Recent healthcare news announcements indicate that another major clearinghouse has disappeared. This is a trend that started a few years ago and will continue. In fact, of the top clearinghouses from five years ago, only a portion are still in business, some of which are in the process of exiting the business through strategic sales by their equity investors.

Why are clearinghouses disappearing?

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One of the major factors contributing to the disappearance of clearinghouses is the fact that most clearinghouses are

Tagged Claim Status, Claims, Clearinghouse, Compliance, Eligibility, HIPAA, integrated healthcare payments, remittance

Going Electronic? How to Get Your Providers on Board

In 2020, 26% of surveyed healthcare payers said that more than half of their provider networks still don’t accept ERA/EFT (Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report). Despite the HHS operating rule on EFT standards which went into effect in 2014 and mandated that payers had to adopt ERA/EFT, 84% of surveyed healthcare providers indicated they continue to receive paper checks from one or more payers.

The sooner providers accept electronic payments, the more money payers and providers can save. So how can you

Tagged Administrative Costs, Best Practice, Compliance, ERA/EFT, healthcare payments, healthcare reform, payer-to-provider payments, payers, reconciliation, remittance

Enhance the Provider Experience: Deliver Payment Assurance

In an earlier post, we discussed one of the major threats to the payer-provider relationship: the provider’s lack of payment assurance. This threat poses an opportunity to payers to give their provider networks the tools needed to achieve payment assurance. In our previous post, we gave tips for payers to deliver payment assurance to their providers. Below, we’ve included a graphic of the Payment Assurance Framework to demonstrate how payers can deliver payment assurance to providers in each step of the healthcare

Tagged Administrative Costs, Best Practice, Claims, Clearinghouse, Eligibility, ERA/EFT, healthcare payments, patient estimation, patient payments, patient responsibility, payer-to-provider payments, payers, remittance

How to Keep Your Provider Network Happy

For a healthcare payer’s provider network, the process to get paid has always been a challenge. The steps providers take each day, from verifying eligibility and submitting claims, to receiving and reconciling payments, are filled with manual work, paper, errors and delays. As a result, the fragmented, time-consuming and often stressful process to collect payments is adding a lot of cost pressure on providers.

New healthcare reform mandates also put pressure on providers to find ways to get paid more efficiently.

Tagged Administrative Costs, Affordable Care Act, Best Practice, Eligibility, ERA/EFT, healthcare payments, healthcare reform, increase collections, patient estimation, payer-to-provider payments, payers, payment assurance, payment strategies, private cloud, providers, reconciliation, remittance

Blog Post Topic: remittance

InstaMed Tips & Tricks

Clearinghouses are Becoming Obsolete

Going Electronic? How to Get Your Providers on Board

Enhance the Provider Experience: Deliver Payment Assurance

How to Keep Your Provider Network Happy