On Tuesday, R1 RCM announced the grand opening of its new Salt Lake City Technology and Innovation Center in collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare. This state-of-the-art facility will be the first of its kind to test and develop new technology to redefine the healthcare revenue cycle process and the patient financial experienceThe grand opening event brought together R1 and Intermountain Healthcare leaders, community business leaders, and local nonprofit organizations for a ribbon cutting,
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3 Things Patients Want From Their Healthcare Financial Experience
In most healthcare organizations, basic automation is used to complete individual revenue cycle tasks. Seldom, however, is technology used to optimize entire revenue cycle management (RCM) processes and improve the patient financial experience.
The situation is dramatically different outside of healthcare in industries that have long competed for direct consumer dollars.
To book an airline flight, for example, consumers simply open up an app or a website. At their convenience — any time of day
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Mon Health Taps PatientMatters to Improve Patient Financial Experience
PatientMatters, a company focused on improving patients’ financial experience while ensuring greater reimbursement for hospitals, today announced that leading PA and WV-based health system, Mon Health, has chosen the company to create a pre-access service system. Specifically, Mon Health will leverage PatientMatters’ new IntelliPass Phase I Advisory Program to improve the patient financial experience and overall collections process.This will enable Mon Health to integrate data and
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R1, Intermountain to Build Innovation Center in Salt Lake City to Foster Revenue Cycle Innovation
In collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare, R1 plans to build a state-of-the-art Technology and Innovation Center in Salt Lake City to foster revenue cycle management (RCM) innovation. This move reflects the industry’s ongoing effort to offer patient-centric care across the healthcare continuum – starting with an improved patient financial experience. Innovation Center Opening DateScheduled to open in May 2019, the 30,000 square foot facility will be used to evaluate patient needs, test
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Alegeus Launches AI-driven HSA Plans to Deliver A Smarter Healthcare Funding Experience
Alegeus, a market leader in consumer-driven health accounts announced this week the launch of their new Smart HSA platform initiative that can help plan participants identify potential cost savings and untapped plan benefits based on past usage. The platform, which has just begun its first series of pilot tests, will feature machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform the healthcare funding market in ways that have never been seen before that deliver a simpler, smarter healthcare
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Revenue Cycle Startup Medpilot Nabs $1.7M to Expand Patient Financial Engagement Platform
MedPilot, a patient financial engagement platform working with outpatient facilities, hospitals, revenue cycle management companies, and practice management systems, announced it has raised $1.7 million in funding led by Hudson River Capital Partners, Valley Growth Ventures, Cedars-Sinai, TechStars, and investor Tom Hirschfeld. MedPilot’s will use the latest round of funding to further bolster their team and roll out additional new functionality in their patient financial engagement platform for
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Why Healthcare Marketers Should Care about the Patient Financial Experience
What comes to mind when you think of health system marketing? For most people, it’s dynamic content on the organization’s latest clinical advancements, philanthropic efforts, wellness management and relationship-building efforts within the community it serves. It’s also understanding patients and their motivations, using consumer research and analysis, focus groups, surveys, and other tools. You probably don’t think about the healthcare billing experience.It’s understandable. Frank discussions
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Cedar Unveils Next Evolution of Patient Payment Platform to Optimize Revenue Cycle
Cedar, a patient payment and engagement platform, announced the next evolution of its flagship solution, Cedar Pay. The enhancements now allow providers to offer a truly unified patient billing experience and simple checkout options.Healthcare executives still struggle to help patients understand and pay healthcare bills, with 50 percent of provider executives reporting the need to improve the patient billing and payment experience, according to a recent Cedar study. The next evolution of
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Revenue Cycle Startup AxiaMed Lands $12.4M for Patient Payment Platform
AxiaMed, a patient payment solution provider has raised $12.4 million in funding from Health Enterprise Partners. AxiaMed credits this investment to rapidly-increasing demand for its proven, secure, SaaS-based payment platform, Payment Fusion. Founded in 2015, AxiaMed’s integrated payments technology platform, Payment Fusion, improves the financial performance of healthcare providers through integration with various revenue cycle, practice management, EHRs and other software systems, enhancing
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Patientco Lands $28M to Reimagine the Patient Financial Experience
Patientco latest Series B funding fuels expansion of patient billing and payments technology platform focused on creating a smarter patient financial experiencePatientco, an Atlanta, GA-based next-generation patient billing and payments technology company has raised $28 million in Series B funding led by private equity firm Accel-KKR. The round also included participation from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners / Sandbox Advantage Fund. Patientco plans to use the funding to accelerate expand
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