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In This Issue
Knowing All About Your Patient
Financial Pressures
Revenue360 Team Spotlight - Lois Cameron
Revenue360 Team Spotlight - John Mangan
Current Events
Knowing All About Your Patient
More health plans are requiring more out-of-pocket payments, which makes the healthcare provider seek this information earlier in the patient encounter. Having this information available at the front end of the registration process where it can be used to increase the odds of optimum out-of-pocket payment for services is desired and therefore the importance of "knowing all about your patient". However, capturing all this information isn't easy. It requires registrars to ask dozens of questions of each patient as he/she is being registered for treatment. And on top of that, it is preferred that patient demographic and insurance information gathered is verified and validated to make sure it is not only current and accurate, but that it is the correct information for the person who is to receive services...

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To send your comments or inquiries, please email Yvonne Focke or visit www.revenue360.net
Financial Pressures
Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals continue to fall compared to rising costs in providing medical services. This disparity resulted in a combined underpayment to providers of nearly $30 billion in 2006, compared to $25.3 billion in 2005. With this, hospitals are steadily providing more uncompensated care annually, amounting to $31.2 billion in 2006, up from $28.8 billion in 2005....

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To send your comments or inquiries, please email Sherrie Adams or visit www.revenue360.net

Revenue360 Team Spotlight - Lois Cameron
Having been involved in healthcare for over 25 years, Lois' expertise is in healthcare revenue cycle solutions and strategic business partner alliances. Lois is the Director of Strategic Product Management for Provider Advantage and formerly worked for other leading providers of healthcare technology to include Envoy/WebMD Corporation, Equifax EDI Healthcare Services and SearchAmerica.

Lois Cameron
Director of Strategic Product Management
loiscameron@provider-advantage.com
Revenue360 Team Spotlight - John Mangan
John Mangan is the Director of Strategic Product Direction for Cincom Systems. He has solved business problems through automation for manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare organizations for 15 years. Also, he is an active member of NAHAM and HFMA.

John Mangan
Director of Strategic Product Direction
jmangan@cincom.com
Current Events
Exhibits

NAHAM 2008
May 4-6
Dallas, TX

HFMA ANI 2008
June 24-26
Las Vegas, NV




 
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