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Presumptive Financial Assistance: Intervening with Accuracy (Part 2)
In a recent Health Financial Management Association (HFMA) podcast earlier this year, It’s time to revisit your charity care policy, there was an enlightening discussion about financial assistance and leveraging presumptive screening to support and streamline patient enrollment. Shawn Stack, HFMA Policy Director, emphasized that financial assistance “is about really getting the patient to the table where they trust the provider or hospital enough to have those financial assistance discussions or qualifying conversations for charity care.”
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Erasing medical debt provides immediate relief, but to prevent new debts we need to improve the broken healthcare system itself, by working with partners and policymakers.
Almost half of U.S. adults delay or skip medical care for fear of high costs. The near-universal nature of the problem points to a flawed healthcare financing system. Medical debt is an important feature of that system and it’s our mission to end it.
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A Problem Transcending Politics: Medical Debt Must Remain a Nonpartisan Issue
90% of U.S. Adults Agree Elected officials should pass policies that protect people with serious illnesses like cancer from medical debt and harassment from collection agencies. In an era that…
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Presumptive Financial Assistance: Intervening with Accuracy (Part 2)
Presumptive analytics are one way for hospitals and health systems to ease enrollment of qualifying patients in financial assistance programs, also referred to as charity care. As discussed in part…
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Presumptive Financial Assistance: Intervening Upstream (Part 1)
In a recent Health Financial Management Association (HFMA) podcast earlier this year, It’s time to revisit your charity care policy, there was an enlightening discussion about financial assistance and leveraging…
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