Caryl Serbin, RN, BSN, LHRM, President and Founder of Serbin Medical Billing, wrote a column for Becker's ASC Review providing tips on patient collections in ASCs.
Topics covered include the following:
Financial counseling
Consistent messaging between ASC and practice
Estimates
Payment options, including payment plans
Statements
As Caryl notes, "As the payor trend toward increasing deductibles, co-pays and co-insurance continues, greater pressure is on ASCs to collect what have become large dollar amounts from the patient. Failure to capture this higher patient balances could turn a profitable procedure into one that loses money for the center.”
Access the Becker's ASC Review column here.
Note: View all Serbin Medical Billing articles here.