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Learn how the healthcare industry is evolving to solve for identity theft, as well as best practices all healthcare organizations can adopt to better meet this growing threat.

Automation provides insight into the claims management process, monitors rejections data, reviews effectiveness, and finds ideas for more system automation.

Many healthcare organizations fail when it comes to optimizing their collections strategy. Here are three common misses, and how they can turn it around.

Consumer data helps achieve better treatment outcomes, engage patients in meaningful ways, and identify social determinants of health.

Ninety percent of claims denials are preventable when healthcare providers automate revenue cycle functions. BMC has a 92 percent primary clean claims rate.

El Camino Hospital launched a consumer self-service tool and patients receive an instant out-of-pocket cost estimate that is 95% to 99% accurate.

How Vancouver Clinic overcame claims denials and too much bad debt to save $2.3 million by adapting principles from the manufacturing industry.

Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, collaborated with Experian Health to streamline patient registration and insurance verification.

Most portals offer the ability to schedule appointments, receive accurate patient estimates, research and select different payment plans, and communicate with staff.

Organizations have significantly boosted patient satisfaction with their financial processes, which has led to more positive experiences and reviews.

The goal is to standardize data entry and access within and across the entire industry to protect, govern, and match patient identities.

Without proper encryption methods, login redundancies, and detection tools, portals are easily accessible to hackers, just as they are to authorized users.