A primary-care voucher model would pay practices upfront for predictable care and leave insurance to cover catastrophic risk, cutting administrative burden and giving physicians time back with patients.
|Videos|October 1, 2020
The importance of a stable revenue cycle
Author(s)Jeff Bendix, Senior Editor, Logan Lutton
Practices should guarantee as much revenue as possible upfront
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David Zetter, founder of Zetter HealthCare LLC, says practices should minimize time spent trying to collect overdue payments from patients, and instead guarantee as much revenue as possible upfront.
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