Patient Payments Archives - Sift Healthcare

Sift Named to AVIA Connect’s Top Patient Billing and Payment Companies

Health systems are taking action in the Patient Billing & Payment space with renewed momentum. Learn how Sift Healthcare transforms patient financial engagement in AVIA Connect’s Top Patient Billing & Payment Companies Report.

March 1, 2023

4 Keys To Improving Self-Pay Collections In 2021

Micro-segmentation of patient accounts and machine learning equip healthcare providers to shift to an ROI-focused approach to patient collections -- while maintaining empathy improving patient engagement.

May 4, 2021

Fintech Meets Medtech To Improve Healthcare Payments

Wonder how Sift impacts healthcare? Watch Sift Healthcare's Founder and CEO, Justin Nicols talk with StartUp Health's Logan Plaster about the impact of Sift's AI and analytics on healthcare payments.

April 13, 2021

How a 120-Day Machine Learning Experiment Led to a 6.5% Increase in Patient Collections

In late 2019, Sift Healthcare and State Collection joined forces to test AI in the revenue cycle. Together, we conducted a rigorous 120-day live, scientific test (with a control group) for Wake Forest Baptist Health, to determine if machine learning...

October 22, 2020

How Do You Optimize Patient Collections During COVID-19?

While triage around COVID-19 continues, patient bills are going to pile up, cash on hand is going to dwindle and a more significant number of patients will struggle to pay their medical bills. Now is the time to be strategic...

March 31, 2020

6 Ways To Increase Patient Payments

Providers of all sizes, as well as RCMs, will be challenged in 2020 to drive better results in patient collections. Here are six ways to maximize patient payments. They might require some data science, but Sift makes that accessible.

January 23, 2020

There Aren’t Enough Bodies To Save Healthcare

We're at a tipping point where healthcare providers will have to implement automation and AI into the revenue cycle. Not only to recover more dollars but also to keep up with the growing (& massive) administrative burden that is persistent...

November 22, 2019

Every Revenue Cycle Improvement Matters

Improving the revenue cycle means minimizing costs and increasing collections, from both patients and payers. Even on a small scale, artificial intelligence has a meaningful impact on healthcare payments and operations.

October 1, 2019

4 Innovative Strategies For Patient Payments

When healthcare providers leverage their patient payments data to drive their collections strategies, they create new and powerful opportunities to increase the revenue they collect, building patient relationships and using payments data to inform business operations. Here are four new...

September 17, 2019

Rural & Community Hospitals Need AI The Most

Unpaid patient medical bills are a growing problem for community hospitals and a downright crippling problem for rural hospitals. These healthcare providers can’t afford not to optimize their revenue cycle, improve their understanding of patient payment behavior and implement collection...

September 17, 2019