Owning the patient financial experience in a complex environment

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST

With the growing challenges in self-pay collections, CHI crafted a patient-centric strategy to combine analytics, self-service and standardization to improve the billing and payment experience.

In this session, CHI’s Vice President of Revenue Cycle will share the planning, execution and results of a system-wide rollout that is driving success over 70 hospitals across four different host systems. She will walk-through of CHI patient scenarios, illustrate what was accomplished and share patient reaction to new features like bill consolidation and pre-service payment plan offers.


Here's what will be covered during the session:

  • Innovative approaches to improve patient payment performance within the changing reimbursement landscape

  • Successful strategies for creating a positive financial experience across a nationwide footprint

  • Methods to address issues with multiple revenue cycle systems in order to offer a consolidated and real-time billing option

Presenters: 

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Leslie Richard

System Vice President of Revenue Cycle

Catholic Health Initiatives (now CommonSpirit Health)

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John Talaga

Executive Vice President, Healthcare

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