Journal of Health & Medical Informatics

Stephen T Parente

Publications

• Research Article
  Insurer Payment Lags to Physician Practices: An Opportunity to Finance Electronic Medical Record Adoption
  Author(s): Michael J Ramlet, David Randall and Stephen T ParenteMichael J Ramlet, David Randall and Stephen T Parente
  
  Objectives: Physician payments from public and private payers are still largely paper-based, so significant payment lags are prevalent across all reimbursement systems. Electronic Medical Record use has the potential to reduce payment lag and improve health system performance. Methods: We use a claims data set of 100,000 covered lives from a national employer to examine mean accounts receivable (AR) payment times by provider type, physician specialty, and state. Eleven physician specialty disciplines are included in the analysis of mean AR and days of payment lag. We also include a coefficient of variation (CV) of physician claims processed by place of delivery and correlation (R2: r-squared) values between mean days of AR and mean CV. Results: We find significant variation in mean AR days by provider type and physician specialty. There is also a great deal of variation in payment pro.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7420.1000136

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