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Stamford, Conn. (PRWeb), February 7, 2012
IVANS, Inc. National health information exchange, today announced the results of research that shows more than 93 percent of health care providers who reviewed Medicare trust fair if all or most of the time the refund claim. Sixty-five percent of those respondents also said the Medicaid fair if all or most of the time. In contrast, 62 percent of those providers who assessed their state of commercial payers just do not believe all or most of the time, with the majority (49 percent) said they are just a few times when paying claims
Interestingly, 39 percent of providers are still using paper to make demands on commercial payers, but less than one percent of paper claims to Medicare and only 11 percent are still using paper claims to Medicaid. IVANS 2012 Healthcare Provider of the study also showed that 65 percent of respondents said Medicare is the health of the fastest payers, Medicaid and 26 percent said only nine percent said commercial payer is the fastest. These findings suggest that while certain steps have been taken to improve the claims process, more work needs to be done by integrating automation into the work flow demands that everyone can enjoy the benefits.
Michael Schramm, president of IVANS health care services, said, For over 15 years, IVANS has worked with thousands of suppliers around the country to help process their claims more quickly and get paid faster with our web-based portal, IVANS lime? This study shows how important it is for providers to utilize technology in the claims process because it not only accelerates the process of return, but greatly improve the efficiency of their administrative work flow.
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According to research, most health care providers to share electronic claims, but 39 percent said the information is being handled by paper, phone or fax. List of information and laboratory results are tied in second place with 35 percent. Providers to improve their technology, but many do not have the money or are not sure how to do it. Third of the provider under review says that budgetary concerns are the biggest challenges that prevent them from sharing information electronically, while 21 percent say it is a constantly changing technology needs.
These results
eye on the need to educate providers that survived, such as technology that can have a web-based technology and automation software can facilitate reimbursement claims with Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers.
Schramm said, With the expected increase in new patients as a result of health insurance mandates, combined with having to manage a tight budget and tighter resources, all of both government and commercial payers need to make certain they offer automated claims processing solution that will accelerate cash flow, reduce uncompensated care assessment and reduce paperwork. But he did not stop there. He is just as important to educate payers suppliers in facilitating the implementation and usefulness to the larger adoption occurred. Doing so will not only save significant time and cost for both groups, but it can improve the overall payer-supplier relationship and lead to transformation in the way health care is actually delivered.
review was conducted electronically 5 to 12 January 2012, and the decision represents a response of over 700 health care providers from across the United States. For an executive summary of IVANS 2012 Healthcare Operator Measure, contact Cecile Locurto at Cecile.Locurto (at) ivans (dot) com or (203) 905-7330.
HIMSS12 attendees
in Venice Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, NV, February 20-24, 2012, a visit Booth # 7101 IVANS can request a copy of the executive summary. In addition, IVANS will demonstrate real-world implementation of nationally recognized, standards-based interoperability technology championed by the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT and Healthcare Federation Architecture at HIMSS Exhibition in the House of G interoperability, barung # 11 000.
About IVANS
headquartered in Stamford, Conn. and a CMS approved vendor, IVANS, Inc. has over 28 years providing property insurance, victims and health care industries with fully managed network, electronic data interchange (EDI) and agency-company interface solutions to help solve complex business problems. IVANS lime? Health Information Exchange (HIE), the platform enables health care providers to connect with more than 4,000 trade payer, Medicare and Medicaid claims to manage the overall flow of work and confirmation of patient eligibility. Used daily by over half a million customers across the country, IVANS Hie lime segments of the population in collaboration with all suppliers to protect the results and increase productivity by offering one-stop solution for the lifecycle management, compliance and clinical applications. IVANS, Inc., Which was founded by 21 insurance companies, also has offices in Tampa, Florida and Cincinnati, Ohio.
For more information, scroll http://www.ivans.com/healthcare. Visit the blog of health IVANS, HealthWire, in http://www.ivans.com/healthblog.
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