Taming the remittance beast electronically.
The next step in coralling the back-office-beast is automating remittance processing. Before taking any steps in that direction, healthcare providers need to establish new procedures for cash management and patient accounting. Opportunities exist for related uses of electronic data interchange (EDI), which will provide additional benefits but will also trigger fundamental changes in the way healthcare providers do business.
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St. Joseph Health System, Orange, CA.
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