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Archive > April, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 4

Tools & Technologies to Help You Get Paid Faster

Take a scalpel to your days in A/R with these online revenue cycle management solutions.

Irene Tsikitas, Associate Editor

Does your business office staff still reach for the phone to verify insurance and file claims? Instead of spending 20 minutes on the phone, they could point their browser at the provider portal on the payor's Web site. What about your schedulers — do they spend time on the phone with physicians' offices and fax documents the old-fashioned way? The flow of information would be much more efficient if they received an instant message from a surgeon's office letting you know he's running late. Scanning documents and sending PDFs over e-mail is also a faster and more efficient way of sharing information than faxes, which can get lost in the paper shuffle at a busy doctor's office.

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