Case Study
Urology of Greater Atlanta
The choice With good reason, patient collections have risen to the top of practice lead- ership’s list of strategic priorities. Patients are shouldering a larger portion of their healthcare cost with more than 75% of individuals with commercial health plans enrolled in high-deductible plans. 1 Additionally, a recent study shows that 83% of physician practices under five practitioners noted that slow payments from high-deductible plan patients are their top challenge. 2 As a result, practices must leverage new payment processes and technologies for better results. Urology of Greater Atlanta is no exception to this rule. “Practices can’t exclusively rely on the reim- bursement they receive from payers anymore. In many cases, if you are not able to collect from the patient, you wo