Clinical Pathology Laboratories Using Back-Office Technologies to Improve Productivity and Increase Cash Collections

Strategy is to use automation and new informatics solutions to improve productivity of medical lab’s billing and collection departments Relentless pressure to cut costs is pushing the nation’s clinical laboratories to finally look at back-office functions as a source of important cost reductions. That is a new trend in the medical laboratory testing industry. “No one should be surprised by this development,” stated Lâle White, CEO of XIFIN, Inc., of San Diego, California. “When it came to...

Clinical Labs Make Money by Using Revenue Cycle Management

Management Tool Contributes to More Collected Revenue, Higher Sales Prices Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is hitting the radar screen at the nation’s best-managed clinical laboratories. That’s because shrinking reimbursement makes it imperative for clinical labs and pathology groups to collect every dollar legally due for the lab testing services they provide. RCM is a proven management tool for reducing unpaid claims and unlocking more productivity in the coding/billing/collections process....
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