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...
Next steps in Health Tourism Destination Development – Centers of Excellence and Referral Networks
Health Tourism, Cross Border Healthcare, Medical Tourism, and all the other market accepted and proprietary phrases used to describe when someone travels outside their local community to access healthcare needs more than an empty bed in a reference hospital that will admit them. Health Tourism, Cross Border Healthcare, Medical Tourism, and all the other...
How to Quote an Outpatient Case Rate
Many healthcare providers in the USA have been burned by poorly written, poorly negotiated managed care contracts, nonspecific case rates, inadequate training or experience, and a lack of information about costs and the clinical knowledge of the cases.As a former surgical nurse and managed care contracting expert, I guess I've taken for granted the...