DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 2 (February)

A high-deductible health plan happens; key is to identify early

Identify and react to your high-deductible patients as early as possible, because whether you like it or not, there’s no way to control for the number of high-deductible health plans (HDHP) in your payer mix, experts tell Part B News. HDHPs are frequently difficult to spot, not to mention, difficult to collect from, meaning you need to train front office staff to know when a patient’s health plan falls under this status and then how to achieve collection.

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