Empowered Physicians help empower
healthcare consumers
Physicians typically seek out ASCs instead of hospitals with the intention of gaining more direct control, over their surgical practices.
ASCs enable physicians to:
- Conveniently schedule procedures
- Assemble teams of highly trained, skilled staff
- Assurance that equipment and supplies being used are the best suited for the technique at hand- The facility they operate at is designed and tailored to their specialty- The autonomy over their work environment and over the quality of care typically not available in hospitals
Website sponsors that publish price and outcomes data have fueled this trend toward transparency. It has become general practice to make ASC pricing info available to patients in advance of the surgery. In order to offer maximum benefits to consumers these disclosures should outline the total price and the specific portion of responsibility to the patient. This leads to empowering healthcare consumers.
Consumers with high-deductible health plan coverageor HSAs are price sensitive, and will likely engage in comparison-shopping for rates and outcomes, and create their own value equation based on data.
Many surgery centers spend a lot of time, energy and money trying to achieve transparency for their patients. Identifying the average cost of a procedure and what a patient’s responsibility will be for a hospital visit is not as easy as it sounds. The complexities of co-pays, deductibles and multiple insurance coverage’s offers providers serious challenges in attempting to estimate costs in order to meet the demands of cost transparency and to determine out of pocket amounts which are the responsibility of the patient.
NextServices understands this hurdle that ASCs are faced with, as well as the importance of being transparent, , and that is why NextServices has developed such an effective solution. Enki Electronic Health Records (by NextServices), has vast knowledge of your specialty, your patients, their insurances, and your billing trends as well. An inbuilt proprietary analytics engine learns as it goes along. Enki works as a partner to physicians making delivery of care seamless.
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