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Healthcare Payments

AI, Technology & Compassion. Give it a listen.

Sift's Blake Sollenberger and Affinity Strategies' Claire Vincent talk about the impact of AI on healthcare payments. They cover the challenges health systems face as they increasingly act as financial lenders, the importance of a positive patient experience in billing, the need for compassionate collections, and the challenges of moving to AI in a risk-averse environment. It’s an enlightening listen and will give you a new perspective on AI and the revenue cycle. 

Bethany Grabher
September 25, 2019
Claim Denials

3 Ways Data Can Fix Denials

The impact of insurance claim denials for healthcare providers in 2021, and how providers' own historical payments data and machine learning provide solutions for both denials prevention and appeals prioritization.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019
Healthcare Payments

Healthcare Providers Have Become Lending Organizations

Every day healthcare providers are extending credit in the form of care, and they have little idea whether, how much or when they will be paid. It’s time for healthcare providers to start deploying well-established data science and analytics tools to forecast payments and optimize outcomes.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019
Claim Denials

The 25% Challenge

Sift Healthcare is proud to be participating in AVIA's 25% challenge, aimed at helping US health systems adopt digital technologies that will reduce the notorious administrative waste in healthcare.

Sarah Buchler
June 26, 2020
Healthcare Payments

There Aren't Enough Bodies To Save Healthcare

We're at a tipping point where healthcare providers will *have* to implement automation and AI into the revenue cycle. Not only to recover more dollars but also to keep up with the growing (& massive) administrative burden that is persistent in healthcare payments.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019
Healthcare Payments

Rural & Community Hospitals Need AI The Most

Unpaid patient medical bills are a growing problem for community hospitals and a downright crippling problem for rural hospitals. These healthcare providers can’t afford not to optimize their revenue cycle, improve their understanding of patient payment behavior and implement collection strategies based on their unique patient populations.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019
Healthcare Payments

3 Healthcare Payments Processes That Are Still Manual

The healthcare payments market is in desperate need of approaches and innovations that reduce manual intensive processes — and save money. Even in today's day and age of big data, artificial intelligence and automation, many healthcare payments processes are painfully manual. Manual typically means cumbersome, prone to error, complicated and expensive.

Justin Nicols
June 19, 2019