Most practices have a cyber plan and an AI policy. Far fewer can show either one works. Here's how to turn paperwork into proof.
|Videos|March 28, 2013
Improving Patient Collections Through Technology
Author(s)Marisa Torrieri
How automatic payment technology helped one healthcare organization increase in-office patient payment collections and reduce administrative costs.
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Getting patients to pay on time is the challenge of many a practice. Debby Essex, director of admissions for Aspen Valley Hospital, in Aspen, Colo., shares how automatic payment technology has helped her increase front-office patient payment collections by 124 percent, and reduce administrative costs by 65 percent. Using this technology from InstaMed (one of a growing number of vendors in the space), her hospital also experienced an 85 percent increase in online adoption.
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