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Credit-card policies catching on among practices
As practices strive to improve collections and reduce costly no-shows, it's becoming more common for offices to require patients to provide a credit card number to secure an appointment. Research
HFMA: Ways to improve patient collections
Hospitals must sharpen their skills--both technologically and socially--in order to improve their patient collections rate, according to a presentation at last week's Healthcare Finance Management
Guest Commentary: Keeping patient credit cards on file was our practice's best decision
Brandon Betancourt
Guest post by Brandon Betancourt A few years back, right around the housing bubble crash and nationwide financial crisis, I started thinking about how our small
Fraud scandal likely to shutter part of state's telehealth program
The not-for-profit organization that administers large parts of Tennessee's telehealth program will likely shut down amid allegations of financial impropriety among its top executives, report the
Information overload? New personal health card doubles as a credit card
A new hybrid personal health record/credit card released this week by Broomfield, Colo.-based LifeNexus might just be nirvana for patients who have longed for an easier way to consolidate and carry
More practices adding card-based collections technologies
As patients' out-of-pocket medical expenses continue to rise, so too is medical practices' adoption of card-based technologies that streamline and improve patient collections. According to recent
Some medical practices stop taking credit cards
Many patients are being currently forced to finance their co-payments and deductibles with credit cards. But in about one-third of practices, they don't have that option as increasingly more
Some medical practices stop taking credit cards
Right now, many patients are being forced to finance their co-payments and deductibles with credit cards. But in about one-third of practices, they don't have that option. Increasingly, practices are
HFMA ANI 2009: Case study - Adventist Health implements self-service payments
Increasingly, hospitals are under pressure to recover as much as possible from self-pay patients and collect co-pays and deductibles on the spot. One way to do this is to make it easy for patients to
Survey: One-third of doctors don't accept credit cards
A new survey suggests that one of the key components in making high-deductible plans work--the ability to collect those deductibles easily--isn't in place for many medical practices. The survey, by
