Guest Column
Banks Need To Think Bigger To Heal The Healthcare Industry's Payments Processing Pains
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By Benny Tate, ibml
When it comes to payments processing, the healthcare industry is facing chronic ailments.
In today's healthcare market, billions of transactions are exchanged each year through a network of complex and costly channels. The U.S. healthcare industry includes approximately 250,000 provider-based billing entities (e.g., hospitals, groups, physicians, labs) encompassing 1 million healthcare providers and 12,000 payer/processing-related entities (e.g., insurance companies, health plans, HMOs, Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, third-party administrators and government fiscal intermediaries). It is estimated that payers distribute 600 million envelopes each year to pay provider claims, which translates to between $3B and $4B in administrative healthcare costs.
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