Finance

ChartSwap president Nate Kelly relays how patients and providers benefit from the company's electronic record request fulfillment, allowing them to review authorizations and receive faster payment for their time by automating custodian fees.

David Wolf, MedeAnalytics AVP, and Lynn Carroll, HSBlox COO, highlight value-based care models' crucial components, including contract modeling and performance measurement, and discuss change management for switching to these models.  

Cedar Gate Technologies EVP David Morris compares the new model, which allows for a gradual approach to risk for more conservative and less experienced ACOs, and ACO REACH, which requires a greater tolerance for risk, but has more rewards.    

Ryne Natzke, chief revenue officer at TrustCommerce, a Sphere company, explains how the company now allows patients to pay with digital wallets and integrates all payments into healthcare staff’s workflows to prevent billing errors.  

Khue Tran, chief strategy officer at Azalea Health, shares how the company's products for rural health systems, including EHR and practice management software, RCM automation and touchless charting, drive efficiencies and boost reimbursement rates.

Increasing yield and reducing cost to collect are among the reasons hospitals outsource their RCM, says Ensemble Health Partners CTO Grant Veazy.  

Ernie Crawford, CEO at Crawford Technologies, discusses how the 2024 CMS Final Rule pertaining to materials and content is bringing health equity to payer market communications.  

David Smith, chief financial officer of managed services provider Anatomy IT, discusses in-house IT support vs. outsourcing IT, health systems' lack of budget to ensure data security and the need to protect against cybersecurity threats.  

Tony DiGiorgio, chief architect at symplr, discusses how the company's AI-driven tools help healthcare organizations automate workflows, realize efficiencies and build a "connected enterprise" to share data among multiple systems.

TigerConnect's chief medical information officer, Dr. Will O'Connor, says both hospitals and patients are affected financially by bed blocking, when a patient unnecessarily occupies a hospital bed, and outcomes suffer.