The Days of “Normal Office Hours” are Over

During Monday-Friday business hours, many billing offices will take lunch hours off and leave promptly at 5 p.m.  That forces patients to call during their work hours if they want to pay their medical bill.  This isn’t just a problem for the patient, but hospitals and physicians as well.

How?

High-deductible insurance policies create higher patient payment balances.  So, the lack of flexible payment options (like self-service bill pay) could cost doctors and hospitals tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Our IVR medical solution is a proven to help patients make their payments 24/7, and it has an incredible return on investment for healthcare providers. However, an Intelligent IVR is capable of so much more!

Deploying an “intelligent IVR” for Healthcare

Intelligent Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is a comprehensive multipurpose tool that simplifies hospital-patient communication. Patients interact with touchtone or verbal responses to find or input information by phone. Our medical IVR works with your existing phone system by breaking specific business functions into a series of steps. That means you can deliver information to patients and allow them to make secure phone payments conveniently.

At a minimal cost, IVR in heathcare:

• Expands “business hours” to 24x7x365
• Increases patient satisfaction
• Accelerates payments into the revenue cycle

Meanwhile, the patient can call you on their schedule instead of trying to call during business hours.

Everybody wins!

How an Intelligent Healthcare IVR Reduces Labor FTEs?

There will be some patients who want a more personal touch, but reaching a staff member is as simple as pressing a button.

Reduce Delinquencies and Missed Appointments

• Payment notifications
• Prescription refill reminders
• Appointment scheduling messages
• Other time-sensitive voice messaging

These can be sent to thousands of patients all at once, and configuration takes just a few clicks.  Before, such a process would take all day and several office personnel to accomplish this functionality.  Now, it’s possible to set it up in minutes.

You can also combine Intelligent IVR with our text and email solutions. Intelligent IVR and Intelligent Messaging effortlessly connects your practice with patients using their preferred communication methods.

Get Patient Feedback Instantly with Post-Call IVR Surveys

The post-call IVR survey data will showcase feedback about:

• Customer service
• Wait times
• Quality of care
• Staff treatment of your patients

You’ll receive this data quickly and easily without pulling your staff away from their primary responsibilities.

Are Healthcare IVR Payments Secure?

Taking medical payments through a payment IVR is secure and HIPAA compliant. In fact, it’s much more secure than taking them over the phone with a person. Patient identity is verified using specific account details and information that only they would know. Once authenticated, a patient can make a credit, debit, or check payment over the phone.  The transaction details are reported through the same payment gateway as other payment channels.

As a HIPAA HITECH and PCI-DSS Level 1 certified vendor, all transactions made through Intelligent Contacts payment solutions have the highest level of data security. It’s important to note that if the you store data for future payments, it is done so by using tokenization. This means credit card data isn’t found within our solution, thus making it worthless to cybercriminals.

Is our IVR Healthcare solution compatible with your existing EMR/EHR practice management software?

All transactions made through Intelligent Contacts award-winning HIPAA HITECH payment technologies (including our Intelligent Patient Portal, Hosted Contact Center, and our P2PE certified solution) report back to your system of record.

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