
How Healthcare Employers Can Do More To Help Providers Manage Payer Frustration
Health insurance claims are a growing headache for providers; many say their employers could do more to help them address the daily demands of insurers
Health insurance claims are a growing headache for providers; many say their employers could do more to help them address the daily demands of insurers
For too long, the behavioral health industry has lacked the accountability mechanisms required to deliver on the high quality care that patients deserve. Provider organizations are proving day in, day out that when strong accountability becomes the standard, patients benefit, and the system as a whole grows stronger.
While AI has the potential to streamline processes, its current use in the revenue cycle is resulting in more claim denials, payment delays, and a greater need for appeals, particularly because payers often use AI to retroactively review medical necessity determinations.
To overcome challenges and ensure that RPM reaches its full potential, both providers and payers need to implement several key strategies — and technology is a key component to making everything easier on all organizations.
As our industry continues its path toward value-based care, evolving payer models, and increasingly stringent regulations, revenue cycle processes will become even more complex. Providers can prepare by following these steps.
Clearinghouses are just one great example of how the enhanced exchange of healthcare data can increase efficiency for healthcare providers and the greater healthcare community.
Payers and providers alike are struggling with data interoperability. It's clear that a more unified approach to data management is essential for payers to effectively navigate the complexities of value-based care.
Executives at the ViVE Payer Insights event earlier this year discussed prior authorization, AI, value-based care and the role of tech to help achieve their goals.
Many consumers leave their provider because of navigation problems, while many leave their insurer because of experience issues, a new Accenture report found.
A new eBook from HLTH and MedCity News captures some of the ethical debates taking place in healthcare and looks ahead to how payers, providers and health tech companies are working together to address them. It also provides insights from executives in the field.
Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds in the payer/employer space that were announced this month.
A new report from Ernst & Young revealed that healthcare organizations are seeing financial benefits and improved outcomes from their health equity strategies.
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At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.