ProviderLink Increases Nash Health Care System's Efficiency

Nash Health System has joined a growing online network that allows providers, payors and other health care organizations to reduce paperwork and manage external patient-related communications.

(PRWEB) May 7, 2005 -- Nash Health System has joined a growing online network that allows providers, payors and other health care organizations to reduce paperwork and manage external patient-related communications. ProviderLink will allow Nash Health System to communicate electronically with payors and nursing homes. Quickly and easily, the hospital is now able to send insurance companies information to process a patient bill and look for available nursing home beds. Before ProviderLink, it took days to complete these types of communications. ProviderLink's solution is assisting Nash County to face increasing financial challenges such as reducing reimbursement increased levels of bad debt and charity care. As always, patient quality, safety and care is our first priority, said Keith Miller, Director of Patient Financial Services,
Finance.

The benefits of using ProviderLink are time savings and increased accountability of communications. We are pleased to assist Nash with improving their communication flow and revenue cycle management," said David Gardner, CEO of ProviderLink.

About Nash Health Care System - Nash Health Care System is a hospital authority comprised of four distinct hospitals: Nash General Hospital, Nash Day Hospital, Coastal Plain Hospital and the Bryant T. Aldridge Rehabilitation Center. It serves Nash, Edgecombe, Halifax, Wilson and Johnston counties, but draws patients from beyond these areas as well.

About ProviderLink - ProviderLink is the leading provider of powerful yet simple Internet-based tools for managing both paper-based and online communications through a single interface and work flow. Regardless of how your communications and attachments are received and sent today, ProviderLink can bring paperless organization and efficiency to your faxes, forms, document exchanges and online transactions. All information requests with both online and offline business partners arrive as electronic documents. ProviderLink technology is empowering healthcare leaders to build cost-effective and non-invasive online healthcare communities today. For more information about ProviderLink, visit www.providerlink.com.

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