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CEO & Founder Mercury Healthcare InternationalValue-based pricing arrangements have become a euphemism for risk transfer agreements that transfer the costs associated with healthcare delivery to providers while the payers that contract with providers apply measures that limit their financial risk. That's not surprising; they aren't in the business of healthcare. They are in the business...
Language you can use to update your physician office financial policies for 2015 to face new collections challenges associated with high deductible plans The ACA and policies issued through the new health insurance exchanges come with steeper patient financial responsibilities, including high-deductibles and higher co-insurance (often up to 50%). This places more emphasis on...
Working with clients and their staff day in and day out, we must remember to allow for all 3 stages of learning and exercise patience. 1. The first of the 3 stages of learning is where everything is BASIC. The learner knows so little that everything has to be broken down into its fundamental units — the...