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Patient Financial Clearance Estimation

An innovative healthcare estimator tool for hospitals and health systems that want to share cost estimates with patients prior to care to help improve collections and reduce the risk of bad debt.

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What’s included in Clearance Estimator

  • Accurate calculation of patient costs

    • Help non-clinical staff identify services a patient is likely to receive
    • Generate cost estimates by modeling your contracts with payers, loading historical inpatient and outpatient procedure charge information, and inputting patient benefit information
    • Incorporate anticipated physician fees, outpatient services, ambulatory surgery, and inpatient care

  • Help increase collections

    • Offer a written estimate, provided via email or in-person
    • Engage patients in financial discussions prior to care
    • Help eliminate surprise billing

  • Stay up to date with government mandates

    • Provide patients with a good faith estimate of expected charges
    • Protect consumers from surprise medical bills
    • Include estimate letter with necessary, government-mandated information

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Provide accurate cost estimates to drive upfront collections

Use our healthcare estimator to calculate patient out-of-pocket costs using data from payer contracts, physician and facility fees, historical charge data, and the patient’s benefit information.

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A healthcare estimator to help enhance patient satisfaction and drive loyalty

Retain patients by offering cost transparency that helps build trust, enables patients to plan and budget for payments, and helps eliminate surprise billing. 

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Engage patients early to help reduce the risk of bad debt

Guide staff in creating accurate cost estimates with our healthcare estimator that incorporate physician fees, outpatient services, and inpatient care, so they can have upfront financial conversations with patients and prompt timely payments.

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Facilitates compliance with government mandates

The ability to provide an estimate of the expected charges for a service, including additional charges to be reasonably expected, helps ensure compliance with the Good Faith Estimate Provision of the No Surprises Act. 

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Humanizing RCM

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Humanizing RCM

Discover how humanizing the revenue cycle throughout a patient’s financial journey will help to elevate providers in an increasingly competitive landscape.

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Case Study

Baton Rouge General Health Improves Point-of-Service Collections with Clearance Patient Access Suite

Case Study

Baton Rouge General Health Improves Point-of-Service Collections with Clearance Patient Access Suite

Learn how using Clearance Patient Access Suite helps improve registration data quality, eligibility verification and patient financial conversions.

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