The Increasing Importance of Payments in Healthcare

For a long time in healthcare, payments weren’t really that important in healthcare because a majority of a healthcare organizations revenue came from payers.  As high deductible plans entered the fray, patient payments started to matter much more.  As we continue to improve the consumer experience with a wide variety of digital health platforms, it seems like every health IT solution out there needs to think about how they’re approaching payment collection to create a seamless experience for the patient.  Payments have never been more important and that’s continuing to increase.

Of course, one of the big challenges for health IT companies is onboarding new customers for something like payments.  Turns out, a bank we all probably know, KeyBank, acquired a company called XUP Payments to address this problem and the challenges of collecting payments in healthcare.

I had a chance to sit down with Pete Wheeler, SVP, Group Lead, Healthcare and Insurance Payments at KeyBank, and Jeff Gill, Healthcare Go-To-Market Lead at XUP Payments, to learn about how they’re helping healthcare organizations when it comes to payments.  They shared with us some of the major pain points they see and hear about in the healthcare industry and then they talk about what can be done to address these challenges.

I also ask them if healthcare is “behind” when it comes to healthcare payments.  Plus, they share what differentiates a next level payment partner for those that may think that all payment processors are equal (they’re not).  Finally, they share a look at what’s on the horizon for healthcare payments.

Check out our video interview below to learn more about payments and how you can improve the end-to-end payment experience.

Learn more about XUP Payments: https://xuppay.com/

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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