Could EHRs save billing offices time and money as they chase insurance payments?
Five national health insurance plans along with the two largest plan industry groups announced last month that they will be launching a groundbreaking initiative in New Jersey to cut insurance paperwork for physicians’ offices.
If successful, the initiative will be one of the first experiments in electronic health record adoption to cut down on what providers say is the biggest time and money drain on their practices — chasing insurance money.
The plans — Aetna, AmeriHealth New Jersey, Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, and United Healthcare — represent about 95 percent of privately insured patients in New Jersey, according to a New York Times article about the initiative.
The plans are partnering with two industry groups, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), and are using…
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