Patient friendly billing

Patient friendly billing First, healthcare financial services will need to become more patient-centric in focus. This means coming up with new ways to identify and address patient needs, learning how to communicate with patients as partners, and incorporating such patient-friendly concepts as pricing transparency, point-of-service payment, and simplified charge structures. Providers will also need to provide meaningful information about quality of care.

Second, in order to be successful in the future, providers must be willing to make radical changes. Consumerism in health care poses a truly different way of doing business. Incremental change—nibbling around the edges—will not be enough to get us where we need to go.

Third, we cannot go it alone. The only way to make the system truly work for the consumer is to collaborate creatively with other providers, commercial and government insurers, employers, regulators, and— first and foremost—consumers themselves.