Many countries are rolling out faster payment schemes to meet customer demand for greater convenience and certainty. This might mean same-day or immediate payments that settle in real time to a payer. This could mean a significant cash flow boost to the provider while eliminating paper checks and manual processes.
Automated Eligibility Verification
Checking patients’ insurance eligibility is crucial in the patient payment process. However, without automated real-time verification, medical insurance verification processes can be slow and error-prone, causing delays in reimbursement and leading to unexpected out-of-pocket expenses for patients. Automation solves these challenges, freeing time for more productive and fulfilling work. In addition to the cost savings, automated eligibility verification can make your registration and billing processes more efficient. Patient insurance verification by professionals like those at the SuperBill is an essential first step for healthcare providers to ensure they submit clean claims and get reimbursed quickly. However, the process is often tedious and time-consuming, and making costly errors that lead to denied claims is easy. Automating the verification process can reduce administrative costs and prevent claim denials. It can also free up employee resources to focus on other tasks, such as patient interaction and processing claims accurately. This allows your staff to focus on registering patients and getting them into appointments without returning to the desk to check on these details. This feature can also help you avoid surprise bills by alerting your team to any changes in coverage that may impact the patient’s cost-sharing obligations.
Automated Claim Submission
A smooth claims processing workflow is critical for a successful business. This requires more than an efficient process; it includes accurate data and transparent communication between insurance companies, policyholders, and healthcare providers. Automated claim submission is an innovative way to streamline the claims process while reducing costs and improving accuracy. This solution enables organizations and employees to focus on customer service and other business-critical tasks rather than time-consuming manual information-intensive processes. An automated claims submission solution utilizes machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence to streamline the claims process from start to finish. Using these tools, the software identifies and categorizes structured and unstructured data in real-time and automatically formats it into a clean claims file for upload to the clearinghouse. This reduces the number of errors, resulting in increased clean claims rates, quicker reimbursement, and enhanced revenue cycle management. As an added benefit, automation solutions enable organizations to provide customers with a seamless, always-on experience. This means that your company will be available to answer any questions your policyholders may have, even after hours or on the weekends. This kind of 24/7 customer support that many consumers want and appreciate will help build brand loyalty. In addition, an automated claims submission process will ensure that your team has access to the necessary documentation to process a claim as quickly and accurately as possible.
Automated Follow-Up
A common complaint by patients is the time it takes to receive reimbursement for medical services. Claims process automation can help speed up the process and improve transparency by giving patients real-time updates on the status of their claims. In turn, this can increase patient satisfaction and reduce overall healthcare costs. Payers have different processes for sending status updates. For example, some payers will mark a claim as Accepted while others may use the terms Accepted and Scrub to mean the same thing. If a claim remains in the Received or Scrub status for a long time, there’s likely an error that needs to be corrected before it can be submitted to the payer. A claim may be denied by a payer for many reasons, including but not limited to medical necessity – the physician and payer disagree on whether the procedure is medically necessary; the provider out of network – the payer determines the provider is out of network; and duplicate claims – two or more claims submitted for the same encounter. The key to avoiding these denials is carefully reviewing claims before submitting them and ensuring they meet the payer’s requirements for correctness and validity.
Automated Payments
Vendor payment automation is automating a business’s payments to suppliers. This helps businesses save time, effort, and money on administrative costs while ensuring their invoices are paid on time. Automatic payments (“auto pay”) are recurring payments automatically withdrawn from the customer’s bank account or credit card on a set schedule. They’re often used to pay monthly bills like credit card, mortgage, utility, cell phone charges, digital streaming services, and more. They can also make recurring monthly payments for subscription-based goods and services, such as curated subscription boxes, gym memberships, newspapers, or gated digital content. The benefits of automated payments are clear: they help customers avoid late fees and penalties, which can affect a credit score; eliminate the need to write checks; and reduce paperwork from both sides of the transaction. However, automatic payments can still be risky for customers who aren’t careful to monitor their accounts and billing statements regularly. If customers need to check their accounts or billing statements, they may be billed for products and services they no longer use and could even be charged unauthorized amounts. Fortunately, it’s usually possible to cancel an automatic payment by logging into the billing company’s portal or contacting the company directly.
