The Intellimarker study, published by VMG Health, surveyed ASCs nationwide on a number of issues spanning staffing, specialties, expenses, and salaries. It cited the average number of days outstanding in Accounts Receivable across centers as approximately 45 days. The GHN-Online payer-payment-cycle scorecard is based on the reimbursement data-stream of clients using Visum. The following is a sampling of the average days-to-pay as reported to GHN-Online:
Aetna: 9
BlueCross BlueShield: 8
CIGNA: 11
Medicare: 14
United Healthcare: 4
Others: 13

“These data suggest that ASCs using Visum are reimbursed four to five times faster than those not using GHN-Online’s Visum, and that our technology helps to improve each facility’s cash flow and operational sustainability,” noted Azadeh Farahmand, CEO of GHN-Online. “Producing clean claims requires compliance with nearly all types of operating rules and billing permutations. Blending the right scrubbing and claims submission technology with predictive analytic tools generates radically improved results for our clients.”

About GHN-Online, Inc.

GHN-Online, Inc., healthcare’s leading provider of real-time claims management and end-to-end transaction processing solutions, delivered the industry’s first Internet-based preadjudicated claims management tools. HIPAA-compliant and enterprise-class, GHN offers the simplest and fastest claims-to-cash solution, anywhere™. With an open architecture that easily integrates all stakeholders in the healthcare reimbursement model, GHN solutions drive a 100% claims acceptance rate. GHN’s intuitive and format-agnostic capabilities enable instantaneous, complete and accurate electronic claims transactions for thousands of healthcare payers and providers throughout North America. Founded in 1999, GHN-Online is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.