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August 2008 | healthcare Highlights from insideARM

This edition of Inside Healthcare Receivables features an article from Rod Bazzani, Executive VP of Healthcare for TransUnion, on the advantages of revenue cycle platforms for both patients and health care providers.  Mr. Bazzani’s analysis highlights real-world examples of how hospitals across the country have implemented RCPs to their financial and patient-relations benefit.

The newsletter also features a blog post from Kaulkin Ginsberg healthcare analyst, Michael Klozotsky, on a topic that might befit the pages of a supermarket tabloid, were the economic stakes of the story not so high for hospital charity care policies.  

And, as always, be sure to read up on noteworthy insideARM healthcare stories that you might have missed between family vacations and farmers’ markets in the past month.  

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This Month's Featured Articles

Utilizing Revenue Cycle Platforms Benefit Both Patients and Hospitals

Healthcare costs are rising. There is no debate. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that medical costs will rise 9.9 percent this year and 9.6 percent in 2009. Rising costs inevitably mean an increase in debt and delinquencies, especially given the current recessive economy. How to fix the healthcare system is on the minds of many, especially since it is an election year. That is not an easy fix and it will take time and creative thinking. However, there are major steps that hospitals and healthcare systems can take now to address the rising amount of bad debt and uncompensated care.

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Once Upon a Time in a Hospital

A humanitarian melodrama and a parable of fiscal irresponsibility all wrapped into one narrative.

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Kaulkin Ginsberg

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