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Sift Named to AVIA Connect’s Top Patient Billing and Payment Companies
Health systems are taking action in the Patient Billing & Payment space with renewed momentum. Learn how Sift Healthcare transforms patient financial engagement in AVIA Connect’s Top Patient Billing & Payment Companies Report.
4 Keys To Improving Self-Pay Collections In 2021
Micro-segmentation of patient accounts and machine learning equip healthcare providers to shift to an ROI-focused approach to patient collections -- while maintaining empathy improving patient engagement.
How a 120-Day Machine Learning Experiment Led to a 6.5% Increase in Patient Collections
In late 2019, Sift Healthcare and State Collection joined forces to test AI in the revenue cycle. Together, we conducted a rigorous 120-day live, scientific test (with a control group) for Wake Forest Baptist Health, to determine if machine learning impacted patient financial engagement outcomes. The results were impressive — a 6.5% increase in patient collections.
How Do You Optimize Patient Collections During COVID-19?
While triage around COVID-19 continues, patient bills are going to pile up, cash on hand is going to dwindle and a more significant number of patients will struggle to pay their medical bills. Now is the time to be strategic and truly commit to being a flexible payment partner for patients. The starting point? Data analytics. Which easily dovetails into machine learning, both providing a powerful advantage for patient collections.
6 Ways To Increase Patient Payments
Providers of all sizes, as well as RCMs, will be challenged in 2020 to drive better results in patient collections. Here are six ways to maximize patient payments. They might require some data science, but Sift makes that accessible.
Why You Should Be Thinking About Call Cadence
For the patient revenue cycle, when, how often, and the method of outreach have a direct impact on dollars collected. But nobody is talking about contact cadence....
4 Innovative Strategies For Patient Payments
When healthcare providers leverage their patient payments data to drive their collections strategies, they create new and powerful opportunities to increase the revenue they collect, building patient relationships and using payments data to inform business operations. Here are four new and intelligent ways that healthcare providers are using their patient payments data to be more strategic and to drive better payment outcomes. Here are four innovative ways that healthcare providers are leveraging their patient payments data
Stop Using Credit Scores For Propensity To Pay
Consumer debt on credit reports is not an indicator of a patient's (or rather, consumer’s) ability or willingness to pay their healthcare bills. Most propensity to pay models rely on credit scores. Healthcare providers need to know how their payments perform — taking into account the uniqueness of their facilities, providers, specialties and regions.
