Health iPASS Insights

Health iPASS CEO and Co-Founder Rajesh Voddiraju has been a busy man. In addition to overseeing the company, he has appeared as a guest on several media platforms recently. On December 31, Rajesh was a guest on the eHealth Radio Network with Eric Michaels, where he discussed a variety of topics including how the rise of high deductible health plans (HDHP) have led to changes in the revenue cycle, the idea behind the creation of the Health iPASS patient revenue cycle solution, and the future of healthcare.

Earlier in the month of December, Rajesh moderated our most recent Health iPASS webinar, a panel discussion centered on strategies to help medical providers collecct more patient payments in 2019.  Rajesh presided over an impressive panel of healthcare experts that included John Hornberger, CEO of Orthopedic Center of Palm Beach County, Eric Brodsky, Principal at Epoxy and Executive Director of Illinois MGMA, and Joe Clark, CEO of Sierra Pacific Orthopedics. Rajesh moderated the discussion on the future of healthcare and how the “status quo” of paper statements and lack of technology use is a thing of the past. If you missed that webinar, a recording of it is available here.

This week is yet another opportunity to hear Rajesh and learn from his great insights on the future of the patient revenue cycle in healthcare. Tomorrow, January 22nd from 12-1 pm central time, Rajesh will be participating in the Association of Dermatology Administrators and Managers (ADAM) webinar entitled “ Preparing for 2019 and Beyond: Revenue Cycle Regulatory Legislation on the Horizon” will outline and discuss pending legislative framework changes on the horizon that could negatively affect revenue cycles and how providers can manage these changes and abandon the status quo.

With the rise of high deductible health plans (HDHPs), patient as a payer is becoming the new norm. Patients are demanding price transparency so they can clearly understand both before and at the point-of-service how much money they owe after a doctor’s visit. Over the last few years, there have been moves both at the state and federal levels towards establishing greater healthcare price transparency and reducing/eliminating surprise medical bills. In fact, as of June of 2018, 28 states now require hospitals, physicians, and/or healthcare plans to publish per-procedure costs.

With a significant push towards greater price transparency, data-driven healthcare pricing reform and transparency will only accelerate. While this is not a new initiative, the Colorado Transparency in Health Care Prices Act, which went into effect January 1st of 2018, is breaking new ground and may well serve as a model for ongoing efforts to increase healthcare price transparency for patients. As the healthcare industry is confronted with new cost transparency legislation, providers need to adapt.

You can register for the upcoming ADAM webinar by following this link. You may also download all our Health iPASS webinars by visiting the “webinar” page located under the Resources tab on our main site. We look forward to hearing more of Raj’s insights and we hope you are too. Read More

We’re sorry you couldn’t join us back on December 13 for our webinar on covering strategies and tactics to collect more patient payments in 2019 and why maintaining revenue cycle status quo is simply no longer an option for medical practices. Panelists on the webinar included: Joe Clark, CEO of Sierra Orthopedics, John Hornberger, CEO of Orthopedic Center of Palm Beach County and Eric Brodsky, Principal at Epoxy and Executive Director of the Illinois MGMA.

Here’s the good news! If you couldn’t view the webinar the first time around, you can now. The webinar is now available online. Here are some of the highlights from the entertaining and informative webinar on how to improve patient payment collection in 2019.

Topics Covered

The panel touched on a lot of topics regarding the current state of the patient revenue cycle in healthcare. They discussed current patient revenue collection strategies—specifically what is and is not working--- and the difficulties of securing patient payment guarantees.

Additionally, the panel discussed the future of revenue cycle management. They talked about what is adding to the cost to collect, how the shift from fee for service to value-based care impacts future payment models, and how a medical practice can effectively address change management.

Lessons Learned

The webinar featured an informative discussion about several important topics in the healthcare revenue cycle. The main takeaway was that technology needs to be at the forefront of changes to the patient revenue cycle. Here are some of the panelists comments:

• “I think technology represents the future [of the revenue cycle],” said Eric Brodsky. “A more efficient way of applying it is the key.”
• The panel also mentioned how keeping up with the “status quo” of not using technology and delivering paper statements will ultimately sink medical practices, while also noting how use of technology has improved relationships with patients.
• “If status quo is your goal, you are not going to succeed. Everybody needs to be looking forward and changing that dynamic.” said John Hornberger. “We need to take advantage with patient revenue cycle technology, and through doing that we’ve been able to form a better relationship with our patients. We’ve moved from ‘traditional methods’ to technology.”
• “A lot of practices are still challenged with leveraging technology. The real issue is whether these practices are using these technologies to their fullest extent?” Eric Brodsky commented. “Paper statements are going by the wayside. You have to have multiple methods to be able to communicate with patients, whether it’s paper, e-mail, or even text.”

While all the panelists agreed that implementing these technologies are the only way to ensure practices collect most of the patient payments they are owed, they also talked about the hurdles that come with moving toward these technologies.

“The key for a successful implementation is educating the staff on why you’re doing it. Really explain to them where we are headed,” said Joe Clark. “Secondly is training staff and educating patients of the advantages of using card-on-file and kiosk systems.”

Downloading the Webinar

We have improved our website to give visitors easier access to Health iPASS content. You can find the webinar on our new “webinar” page under the resources tab. To listen to our informative webinar, visit the landing page and fill out the form on the page to get instant access to our webinars.

Has this webinar on how to improve patient payment collections motivated you to take action and explore your options? Let us know and we can set up a quick demo of our patient revenue cycle solution.

                                                                                    

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As Health iPASS continues to grow as a company and demonstrate thought leadership on the patient revenue cycle, our website grows in lockstep to help bring you opportunities to learn and interact with our knowledgeable staff, partners, and industry experts. Recently, we published two new webpages under the “Resources” tab on our main site, the first to share our recent webinars on the patient revenue cycle and the second to bring you a new podcast content segment we have developed to help our community gain more insight into our innovative patient payment optimization tool and our company culture.

Direct Access to our Webinars

Health iPASS webinars are a great resource for education and insight into patient revenue cycle management solutions. We have assembled Health iPASS clients, partners, and industry experts to debate and discuss patient revenue cycle strategies, tactics, and best practices that will help collect more patient payments, lower the time and cost to collect, and increase operating income.

Under the Webinars tab, you will be able to download our webinars from the past year, including our most recent webinar on December 13th entitled “Getting Paid from Patients in 2019: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why the Status Quo is No Longer an Option.” In this webinar, Joe Clark, CEO of Sierra Pacific Orthopedics; John Hornberger, CEO of the Orthopedic Center of Palm Beach County; and Eric Brodsky, Principal at Epoxy and Executive Director at Illinois MGMA discuss the current state of the patient revenue cycle and why maintaining the status quo in patient payment collection is no longer an option, as well as strategies to increase patient collections in 2019.

Among the other webinars included is the September 27th webinar with Kate Cullip, Business Office Director at Colorado Allergy & Asthma Centers. She and Health iPASS CEO Rajesh Voodiraju talked about how her medical practice has been able to collect more patient payments, reduce accounts receivable (A/R) and days in A/R, and lower the time and cost to collect since implementing the Health iPASS patient revenue cycle solution last year.

Additionally, visitors will be able to access our one-on -one webinar with John Hornberger detailing the challenges of collecting patient payments and how patient revenue cycle technologies like Health iPASS can streamline the patient payment process and significantly improve patient payment collections.

Health iPASS Podcasts

Additionally, Health iPASS has a new podcast content segment. Health iPASS podcasts will consist of interviews with members of the Health iPASS team, partners, clients, patient revenue cycle industry experts and thought leaders, and other select guests as part of an effort to help you understand more about who we are and learn strategies and best practices to help redefine your patient revenue cycle in light of heightened calls for healthcare price transparency and the rising trend of patient-as-payer. So far, we have only recorded one, but don’t worry, there are more on the horizon!

Our first podcast features an interview with Paul Prikazsky, Director of Client Success for Health iPASS. In the podcast, Paul discusses his role at the company and the role the Health iPASS Client Success team plays for the company. Paul also discusses the Health iPASS training and implementation process, specifically:

• How long does training and implementation take?
• What resources are required?
• Who at the medical practices are most involved in the training process?
• How much does Health iPASS charge for training?

We hope that visitors to the Health iPASS patient revenue cycle website will take advantage of these new resources not just by visiting the pages, but by also downloading the webinars and listening to our podcasts. The podcast with Paul Prikazsky provides examples of how our client success team works with practices to help make the implementation of our patient revenue cycle solution as effortless as possible. Meanwhile, the webinars allow people to discover the difference Health iPASS has made for a few of our clients to improve patient payment collections and reduce the cost to collect.

At Health iPASS, we help educate our community about the patient revenue cycle by providing thought leadership and educational content in addition to practical tips that can help any medical practice to collect more patient payments, reduce the time cost to collect , and increase operating income. This content is helping to spread the word about our vision while also giving real examples of how Health iPASS has worked in improving the patient revenue cycle for medical practices.

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