Are You Missing out on up to 40% More Revenue from Third-party Payers?
Nov 7, 2025
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Third-party liability coverage makes up roughly 5-6% of all health insurance claims in the case of accident or injury incidents. This...
How Can Hospitals Reduce Uncompensated Care Expenses and Improve Revenue?
Oct 14, 2025
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Hospitals across the country are navigating an industry-wide financial crisis with no clear end in sight. According to the American...
How Providers Can Optimize Payments Despite Mounting Financial Threats
Sep 29, 2025
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It’s now been some time since the pandemic-era Medicaid continuous enrollment provision ended. For healthcare providers relying on Medicaid...
Can RCM Optimization Tech Help Capture More Revenue Within NSA Rules?
Aug 20, 2025
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More than three years after taking effect on January 1, 2022, the No Surprises Act (NSA) is still creating waves across the healthcare...
White Paper Explains How to Fix Data Gaps Without Burning Out Your Team
Jul 1, 2025
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The source of many reimbursement issues can be traced back to a simple, avoidable problem: missing or inaccurate patient data. If your...
Smart Strategies for Combatting Major Threats to Provider Revenue
Jun 26, 2025
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Healthcare providers face three major threats to revenue. The pandemic-era Medicaid continuous enrollment provision has expired. The number...
Podcast: Proven Strategies for Getting Paid Despite Medicare Fee Cuts and Declining Medicaid Rolls
Jun 19, 2025
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Only a few years removed from the end of the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision, millions of eligible patients are now without...
How To Stamp Out Front-end Revenue Cycle Problems and Help Prevent Denials
May 30, 2025
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More than 44% of claim denials are caused by front-end revenue cycle problems. Of these, 24% can be traced to registration and eligibility,...
Providers Have Options for Maximizing Revenue Under the No Surprises Act
May 16, 2025
3 min read
More than three years after taking effect on January 1, 2022, the No Surprises Act (NSA) is still creating waves across the healthcare...
Unlock Higher Revenue: 6 Tools To Instantly Maximize Reimbursement
ZOLL Data Systems | Apr 17, 2025
Most narratives about the current healthcare landscape are distressing. Costs are rapidly rising, and reimbursement rates are shrinking....
How Right-day Billing With Automated Deductible Monitoring Can Increase Provider Revenue
ZOLL Data Systems | Feb 18, 2025
In the good old days, most people had great, employer-sponsored healthcare plans. Patients simply provided their insurance cards at...
Maximize Revenue and Reduce Bad Debt by Monitoring Deductible Status
ZOLL Data Systems | Feb 4, 2025
What was first meant to promote cash flow, “zero-day” billing has no longer become an option for many billers. As high deductible...
How Healthcare Billers Can Monitor Deductible Status To Maximize Revenue and Reduce Bad Debt
ZOLL Data Systems | Jan 27, 2025
High deductible healthcare plans (HDHPs) and the self-pay patient population have grown considerably over the last few years. In 2023, over...
Prior Auth Denials Are Up: Here’s How To Protect Profit and Patients
ZOLL Data Systems | Dec 20, 2024
The prior authorization (PA) process healthcare providers endure is a story of unintended consequences. Created as a utilization management...
How Emergency Medicine Billers Can Break the Claim Denial and Rejection Cycle
ZOLL Data Systems | Dec 17, 2024
In the pressure-cooker environment of emergency medicine, providers are often operating without the staff, time, and information they need....
Podcast: 5 Ways Providers Can Improve Revenue Capture
ZOLL Data Systems | Dec 16, 2024
Since 2012, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that the average annual deductible for workers who are enrolled in their employer's...
How To Spot RCM Shortcomings and Act To Improve Revenue Capture
ZOLL Data Systems | Nov 22, 2024
For many — if not most — healthcare providers, collecting patient demographics, insurance information, copays, and deductibles prior to...
How To Stop the Surge in Self-pay Write-offs by Finding Hidden Coverage You Can Bill Today
ZOLL Data Systems | Nov 6, 2024
For years, healthcare providers have witnessed explosive growth in the number of patients who are self-paying or on high-deductible health...
What To Know About Insurance Eligibility, Discovery, and Verification
ZOLL Data Systems | Oct 29, 2024
The healthcare industry is rife with insider acronyms and language. Take, for example, the terminology used to describe various processes...
How Practice Management Companies Can Use RCM Optimization Tools To Help Customers Get Paid Faster
ZOLL Data Systems | Oct 11, 2024
As payment models shift, and the healthcare industry becomes increasingly complex, efficient revenue cycle management (RCM) practices are...
Air and Ground RCM Vendor Slashed Self-pay Volume and Increased Revenue With RCM Optimization Technology
ZOLL Data Systems | Oct 4, 2024
Before Golden Hour® began using ZOLL AR Boost®, their workflows consisted of manual efforts to verify patient demographics and insurance...
Black Book Research Ranks ZOLL® AR Boost® as the #1 2024 Insurance Discovery Solution
Christa Lassen-Vogel, Senior Manager, ZOLL Software and Data Solutions | Aug 6, 2024
ZOLL® Data Systems has received top honors in Black Book’s annual Finance and Revenue Cycle Management survey for the second year in a row....
Why Chase Self-pay When You Can Find and Bill Active Coverage With Help From Automated Eligibility Tools?
Christa Lassen-Vogel, Senior Manager, ZOLL Software and Data Solutions | Jul 16, 2024
For years, healthcare providers have witnessed explosive growth in the number of patients who are self-pay or on high-deductible health...
The Time is Now: Prevent Bad Debt With Automated Deductible Monitoring and Right-day Billing
ZOLL Data Systems | May 8, 2024
High-deductible insurance plans are continuing to grow in number, and patients often don’t meet their annual deductibles until much later...
Make This the Year You Optimize Accounts Receivable and Capture Maximum Revenue
ZOLL Data Systems | Feb 20, 2024
A new year means new opportunities to set goals, reevaluate current workflows, and make the necessary changes to enhance your accounts...
Healthcare RCM Platform Delivers 10% More Collections for Customer Using Real-time Insurance Discovery
ZOLL Data Systems | Jan 31, 2024
Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based healthcare clinical and economic solutions, wanted to help their collections agency customer (serving...
How the Prior Authorization Process Tests Patients, Providers, and Profits
ZOLL Data Systems | Aug 30, 2023
The prior authorization (PA) process was created as a utilization management tool for insurance companies and patients. However, it has...
How Emergency Medicine Providers Can Mitigate Self-Pay Collection Challenges
ZOLL Data Systems | Apr 26, 2023
Across the country, emergency medicine providers are strapped by workforce gaps and swamped by a rising tide of patient visits to the...
Tips for Managing the Surge of Patients About To Lose Medicaid Coverage
ZOLL Data Systems | Feb 28, 2023
What happens when millions of people lose healthcare coverage in one year? That’s the question healthcare providers are apprehensively...
3 Ways ASCs Can Speed Up the Prior Authorization Process
Christa Lassen-Vogel, Senior Manager, ZOLL Software and Data Solutions | Sep 1, 2022
The demand for accessible, convenient outpatient procedures is growing. At the same time, ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) are contending...
How Medical Groups Can Tune up Front-end RCM Processes and Capture More Revenue
Christa Lassen-Vogel, Senior Manager, ZOLL Software and Data Solutions | Apr 22, 2022
Medical groups are facing unprecedented cost increases as well as lost revenue that can never be recaptured. While many groups focus on...
Automated Demographic Verification Should Be Every Laboratory’s First Line of Defense Against Revenue Leakage
ZOLL Data Systems | Apr 12, 2022
Many laboratories face financial challenges due to persistent downward pricing pressure, making it essential to capture payment on all...
How To Use AR Optimization and Patient Engagement Technology to Counteract ASC Staffing Shortages
Juli Smith, Director, ZOLL Data Systems, and Mark R. Jones, Vice President of Client Services, Gryphon Healthcare | Apr 1, 2022
The staffing crisis prompted by COVID-19 is unlikely to be resolved in the foreseeable future. When key positions can’t be filled in a...
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and the Potential Revenue Cycle Win for Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Juli Smith, Director, ZOLL Data Systems | Aug 19, 2021
(2 min read) Data science made advances toward artificial intelligence (AI) for years, which encouraged scientists to believe the dream of...
Top 6 Tips for Optimizing EMS Reimbursement, Care Quality, and Staffing
ZOLL Data Systems | Jun 23, 2021
(4 min read) Technology is transforming how the healthcare industry manages revenue, reimbursements. Claims processing is central to any...
Tools and Strategies to Improve Revenue and Reduce Administrative Burden
ZOLL Data Systems | May 6, 2021
(2 min read) “One overarching thing I think that we are struggling with today as healthcare providers is payment uncertainty. We really...
Stop Relying on the Patient for Accurate and Timely Payer Information
Juli Smith, Director, ZOLL Data Systems | Apr 22, 2021
(3 min read) When it comes to billing and revenue cycle management (RCM) services, as an industry, we have been doing the same things for...
Data Analysis Drives Better Decision Making and Increased Revenue
Kristin Whitt, Director of ARO Operations, ZOLL Data Systems | Mar 15, 2021
(5 min read) Hospitals, emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, and other healthcare providers need accurate, complete, and reliable...
Emotional Strain and Mental Health: Using ePCR Data to Transform the EMS Culture
Christa Lassen-Vogel, Senior Manager, ZOLL Software and Data Solutions | Jan 28, 2021
Long shifts, low pay, and repeated, vicarious traumas are givens for paramedics and other EMS professionals. Enduring the physical and...
Emergency Medicine is Facing the Imperfect Storm in 2021
Christa Lassen-Vogel, Senior Manager, ZOLL Software and Data Solutions | Dec 17, 2020
The proposed Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for 2021 increases reimbursement for office and outpatient E/M codes and thereby reduces the...
Offering Patient-centric Payment Plans Increases Provider Collections by More than 11%
ZOLL Data Systems | Oct 6, 2020
(2 min read) Most healthcare providers report offering patient payment plans. The plans are popular; approximately half of consumers state...
How to Optimize Revenue Cycle Management Technology: Best Practices from the Experts
Juli Smith, Director, ZOLL Data Systems | Aug 26, 2020
In a recent report by HIMSS Healthcare IT News, five healthcare revenue cycle technology experts offer perspectives on best practices for...
How to Verify Patient Eligibility Under the HRSA Uninsured COVID-19 Program
Juli Smith, Director, ZOLL Data Systems | Aug 13, 2020
In early April, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced that a portion of the $100 billion CARES Act Provider Relief...
Mitigate the Impact of Volume Loss by Optimizing Accounts Receivable
Juli Smith, Director, ZOLL Data Systems | Jul 9, 2020
Proven Best Practices and Solutions to Effectively Mine Past Accounts Receivable (5 min read) Amid COVID-19, hospitals and providers alike...
Guarding Against (More) Revenue Loss
Maggie Adams, President, EMS Financial Services | Jun 18, 2020
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Innovating Revenue Streams During COVID-19: Four Telehealth Best Practices
Juli Smith, Director, ZOLL Data Systems | Jun 4, 2020
Written By: Juli Forde (3 min read) As healthcare providers continue to manage unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 crisis, making...
How to Prevent Revenue Loss During COVID-19
Juli Smith, Director, ZOLL Data Systems | May 21, 2020
Unanticipated situations like the COVID-19 crisis present significant revenue challenges for healthcare providers. The path forward can be...
How to Minimize the Operational Impact of MBI and Increase Patient Satisfaction
Ray de la Pena | May 13, 2020
Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers Accelerate Claim Payment
Kelli Turner | Feb 11, 2020
(4 min read) On January 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made the formal shift to the use of Medicare...
Achieving Revenue (Tri)Cycle; Not (Uni)Cycle
Daniel Pedersen | Nov 6, 2019
(3 min read) When people hear the phrase “revenue cycle,” words like "billing," "collections," and "payment" typically come to mind. While...
