Pros and cons of using health information networks to collect
You must know whether your private payer patients are in network, owe a deductible and how much they have left on it before they walk in your practice – not knowing slows down collections and threatens cash flow. While you can always devote staff time to calling payers and having specific patients looked up, using a health information network (HIN) can greatly reduce that time and streamline the whole collections process, practices say.
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