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The Hidden Cost of Not Having an Automated Patient Financial Management Strategy in Behavioral Health

Behavioral Health Providers play a crucial role in providing necessary medical and mental health services to a traditionally unserved community in
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Beware of the Consequences: Payers Take Legal Action Against SUD Treatment Facilities for Inducement

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FinDigital Meets the Patient Where They are With a Digital Payments Footprint

FinDigital Meets the Patient Where THEY are With Digital Payments

FinPay™ is a recognized leader in patient engagement and financial management. FinDigital® is an advanced payment automation omnichannel platform.
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FinPay Names Newest Advisory Board Member, Bradley F. Sorte

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For the 3rd Time, FinPay Appears on the Inc. 5000, with Three-Year Revenue Growth of 274%

PHILADELPHIA, August 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine revealed that FinPay, a recognized leader in pre-care payments and patient engagement, is
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How Financial Stress Affects Worker Productivity

In today's society, where health is wealth, medical debt proves to be a double-edged sword. On one hand, people need medical care to stay healthy and
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6 Ways to Be Financially Responsible

Financial responsibility refers to the effective management of money. It involves making informed decisions about spending, saving, budgeting, and
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5 Money Management Tips

Money management is a crucial aspect of today's world as it ensures financial stability and security. It becomes even more essential during
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Why Financial Management Is Important

Medical financial management is a crucial aspect of the healthcare industry. As medical costs continue to rise, it is becoming increasingly important
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Build a Strong Foundation for Patient Financial Management

Build a Strong Foundation for Patient Financial Management

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Why Should the Patient Financial Experience Be a Top Priority?

Do you dread the thought of receiving a medical bill in the mail after a visit to the doctor? You're not alone. Many Americans report feeling
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Handling Medical Debt: What Are Your Options?

Medical debt can be a heavy burden, and it is unfortunately very common in the United States. Many Americans report difficulties paying their medical
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How to Improve the Financial Experience for Addiction Patients

Financial well-being can play a crucial role in addiction recovery. Managing one's finances is an integral part of the recovery process, as it
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FinAdvisor Aims to Improve Efficiency and Enhance the Patient Experience

PHILADELPHIA, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FinPay™, a recognized leader in patient engagement and financial management, today announced the launch of
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How to Read Your Medical Bill

Trying to understand an invoice from your doctor or specialist can be frustrating because medical billing is notoriously complicated. Most invoices
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What Solutions Does FinPay Offer for Patient Financial Management?

When you need healthcare, you shouldn't have to worry about how you'll afford it or even how to understand your medical bill. Unfortunately,
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FinDigital Aims to Solve the Affordability Crisis in Healthcare

FinPay™, a recognized leader in patient engagement and financial management, today announced the launch of the FinDigital® Suite, an advanced payment
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What Is FinPay?

Navigating healthcare expenses in the United States has become increasingly complex as access to healthcare and insurance coverage has expanded.
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How Providers Can Improve the Patient Financial Experience

As a healthcare provider, improving the patient financial experience can help you retain current patients and bring in new business from qualified
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5 Common Obstacles to a Positive Patient Financial Experience

Having a good experience with a medical provider goes beyond bedside manner and office cleanliness. Knowing what to expect on the bill and the
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3 Common Misconceptions About Patient Financial Responsibility

Determining what you're going to have to pay for treatment can be confusing and unclear. You might have trouble understanding what your insurance
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3 Benefits of FinPay for Providers

FinPay is a digital payment platform designed to assist healthcare providers with their medical billing and payment processes. It simplifies the
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FinPay is on Inc.'s 5000 Regional Northeast Fastest-Growing Private Companies of 2023

PHILADELPHIA, February 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine revealed that FinPay, a recognized leader in patient engagement and financial
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3 Ways to Avoid Medical Debt

Medical debt is a growing issue that affects individuals and families across the nation. Many people struggle to pay their medical bills due to
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What Are the Benefits of FinPay for Patients?

The American healthcare system is a complicated system of interlocking participants that often creates a confusing picture for the average patient.
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What Is Patient Financial Management?

For many Americans, navigating the healthcare system can be daunting. The actual costs, perceived costs, or unexpected costs of the U.S. healthcare
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How Can FinPay Help with Patient Satisfaction and Retention Rates?

The behavioral health industry is complex and highly competitive for providers regardless of specific focus. Whether your firm is dedicated to mental
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Delayed Medical Treatment: Understanding the Causes and Effects

Have you ever delayed medical treatment due to financial or other reasons? If so, you’re not alone. According to a survey by the Kaiser Family
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What Is the FinPay Pre-Care Solution?

For many people in America, the U.S. healthcare system is frustrating, overly complex, opaque, and expensive. The intersection of patients,
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How Medical Debt Can Impact Your Health

Each year, millions of Americans find themselves in a precarious financial situation due to medical debt. From rising healthcare costs to limited
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What to Do If I Can't Pay My Medical Bills?

For many Americans, the cost of healthcare can be paralyzing. Unknown costs, unexpected charges, and the general complexity and ambiguity surrounding
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What You Should Know About FinPay

FinPay offers payment solutions to maximize the payment financial experience. The healthcare experience for most Americans can be complicated and
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What Is a Healthcare Engagement Payment Specialist?

Medical debt is a growing problem in the United States, and the costs of healthcare are one of the biggest obstacles Americans face in getting needed
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Understanding the Medical Debt Crisis in the U.S.

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3 Most Common Challenges When It Comes to Patient Financial Responsibility

It is no secret that the cost of healthcare in the United States is high. What may be less well known are the significant challenges in patient
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What Are my Payment Options for Addiction Treatment?

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3 Benefits of Cost Transparency in Healthcare

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How Does FinPay Help with the Healthcare Consumer Experience?

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3 Ways Patients Can Improve Their Healthcare Financial Literacy

For most patients, navigating the financial landscape of healthcare is daunting. The same is true for behavioral health needs pertaining to mental
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What Are the Advantages of Patient Pre-Authorizations?

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FINPAY RANKS ON 2022 PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS JOURNAL’S SOARING 76 LIST

FinPay, a recognized leader in patient engagement and financial management, is ranked No. 4 on the annual Philadelphia Business Journal’s Soaring 76
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FINPAY EARNS A INC. 5000 RANKING

Inc. magazine revealed that FinPay, a recognized leader in patient engagement and financial management, is on its annual Inc. 5000 list for the 2nd
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Benefits of FinPay for Employers

When deciding to enter behavioral health treatment, most people will either seek a referral from a trusted person or do their own research and read
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What to Do When You Need More Payment Options for Healthcare Services

In navigating American healthcare, including behavioral healthcare, most Americans have a decidedly unpleasant experience. Financial considerations
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How Pre-Care Engagement Can Help with Patient Retention

The American healthcare experience, including behavioral health, for the average patient, is generally complex, confusing, frustrating, and overall
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The Dangers of Avoiding Healthcare Over Fear of Financing

The American healthcare system has a reputation for being one of the best in the world. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most complicated for the
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How to Make Patient Financial Responsibility Easy and Affordable

Too often, patients refrain from seeking necessary behavioral healthcare because of negative perceptions. They believe the cost and paperwork
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3 Ways to Improve Patient Financial Experience

Healthcare costs and paying for them pose obstacles for patients and providers alike. The patient financial experience is a frustrating, opaque
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How Financial Stress Can Cause Negative Effects on Employee Productivity

American society has undergone unprecedented changes over the last few years, primarily brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. A shift to remote work,
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Is Financial Assistance Available for Mental Health Treatment?

Mental health disorders affect many Americans every year. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiences
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A Data-Driven Admissions Strategy Means Fewer Patients Lost

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How to Educate Your Patients on Affording Addiction Treatment

The behavioral healthcare field is growing by leaps and bounds in America. As more and more people need treatment for substance use and mental health
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How To Give Your Patients The Best Consumer Experience in Healthcare

The American healthcare system is a nightmare for most consumers. Patients often are left to navigate complex and confusing insurance plans in a
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3 Things to Do If Mental Healthcare Is Not Accessible or Affordable

The landscape of behavioral healthcare in the United States is laden with obstacles and difficulties, especially for patients. Accessing healthcare
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How Healthcare Providers Can Offer Financial Solutions to Their Patients

Healthcare costs, and paying for them, pose obstacles for patients and for providers alike. Patient financial engagement is a frustrating, opaque
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Top Benefits of Using A Data-Driven Automation Program For Healthcare Admissions

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There's A Better Way To Handle Your Patient Pay Solutions

The American healthcare system is a nightmare for most patients. Navigating healthcare costs is almost impossible due to the lack of transparency,
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Most Common Issues With Patient Portals and How FinPay Fixes Them

Technology has changed how almost every industry operates, and the change has been rapid and far-reaching. Healthcare is no different. In general,
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Top Ways FinPay's Patient Financial Management Can Help Your Rehab Center Grow

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What Are The Top Barriers to Affordability in Healthcare?

The American healthcare system is touted as one of the best in the world, able to provide treatments and medications that are not possible in other
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How Much Does Financial Experience Impact Patient Retention?

Healthcare, including behavioral healthcare, is a highly complex environment for patients and it normally does not deliver a pleasant patient
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Good Patient Financial Experiences Should be Standard Practice

This bears repeating: good patient financial experiences should be standard practice. Currently, they are anything but standard.
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The Many (and Mutual!) Benefits of Pre-Care Patient Engagement

Sadly, for many people, patient experience is a matter of life and death. Every decision made in the healthcare sector (whether it’s how frequently a
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Coronavirus and surprise medical bills: It’s time for healthcare providers to communicate with patients about unexpected medical expenses

Since December of 2019, when the Chinese government reported the first cases of a novel coronavirus in the Hubei Province of China, COVID-19 has
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Revenue clarity in 2020, 4 Ways Hospitals Can Save Money

Take it from the politicians: healthcare is an economic issue. In fact, it’s one of the most important ones.
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Understanding the Difference Between Patient Financial Management and Revenue Cycle Management

Every healthcare executive is familiar with the term revenue cycle management (RCM), but surprisingly few know what patient financial management
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In the New Year Deductibles Reset, How Will You Prepare to Operate at a Loss?

It is almost 2020, which means a new cycle of patient delinquency for most health care organizations. As the calendar resets, so too do the health
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How to Convert the Patient Financial Conversation into a Trust-building Patient Engagement Opportunity

It is hardly a secret that the most successful businesses have strong, enduring customer relationships built on trust. This trust can be strengthened
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FinPay's Patient Satisfaction Survey

FinPay conducted a 6 month patient satisfaction study to measure how satisfied patients were with their FinPay pre-care financial experience. We
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Best Practices of Pre-Care Patient Engagement

According to a study in the Annals of Family Medicine, the average amount of time that a doctor spent on an individual patient visit was 17.5
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Five Things You Didn't Know About Patient Financial Management

Optimal patient health is the collective goal of the healthcare industry, but in order to provide high-quality care that keeps patients healthy,
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Will Medicare Work For Everyone?

The healthcare system in the United States is once again poised for upheaval. It has only been 11 years since Congress passed the Patient Protection
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Hahnemann Hospital Closing - The bankruptcy of Hahnemann Hospital Puts Thousands of Philadelphia’s Poorest at Risk.

It is a tragedy when an important healthcare facility serving a needy community has to shut its doors and place the lives of those it serves at risk.
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Obstacles to Healthcare Innovation

By John Ziegler (CFO)
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The Healthcare Priorities of Millennials

As the influence and presence of millennials grows throughout society in the United States, so does the importance of the healthcare industry taking
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How ‘Medicare For All’ Would Change The Healthcare Industry

By Christopher Wolfington
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Healthcare’s Performance on Wall Street: Why Stocks Are Dropping

By Christopher Wolfington
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How To Simplify Your Health Care Payment Process

By Christopher Wolfington
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Take Charge of Your Health Care Payment Accountability

By Christopher Wolfington
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How Your Credit Score Affects Your Health Insurance Rates

By John Ziegler
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How Hospitals Can Use Automation to Increase Productivity Without Compromising Care

By John Ziegler,
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10 Most Promising Healthcare Tech Startups-2019

The healthcare tech industry is riding on the wave of digital transformation courtesy the increase in the use of technology in the healthcare
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How Forward-Thinking Health Systems Are Embracing New Technology

How Forward-Thinking Health Systems Are Embracing New Technology

By Lauren Anderson (COO)
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Do Hospitals Care About You? Not Today

By Christopher Wolfington
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What To Expect From Healthcare in 2019

By Christopher Wolfington
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Streamlining Payments Through Patient Engagement

By Christopher Wolfington
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How Branding Is Making Compliance More Important Than Ever

By Christopher Wolfington
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Three ways the healthcare industry is positively impacting the U.S. economy

By Christopher Wolfington
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The consequences of unpaid medical debt

By Christopher Wolfington
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Employee financial health should be a core concern for employers

By Christopher Wolfington
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Ways to Finance a Large Medical Bill

By Christopher Wolfington
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Pennsylvania Hospitals Must Notify Patients of Charity Care Eligibility

By Christopher Wolfington
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3 health care startups to keep an eye on this year

By Christopher Wolfington
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The Top 4 Healthcare Patient Financial Management Trends for 2018

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5 Ways to Improve the Payment Collection Process

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Mid-year check-in: Are the realLIST startups still real?

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Americans are avoiding health care because of high costs at the detriment of their health

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Making sense of choosing your insurance plan

By Christopher Wolfington
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Higher costs don’t necessarily translate to better care

By Christopher Wolfington
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Medical startups seek to upend traditional patient financial management

By Christopher Wolfington
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How financial databases are a key to price transparency

By Christopher Wolfington
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Doctors embracing creative business models to avoid administrative woes

By Christopher Wolfington
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Traumatic trauma fees loom for ER patients

By Christopher Wolfington
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Medical Tourism: not too good to be true

By Christopher Wolfington
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The key role of market transparency in health care efficiency

By Christopher Wolfington
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3 things to consider when choosing between high-deductible and low-deductible insurance plans

By Christopher Wolfington
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How to Improve the Patient Financial Experience

By Christopher Wolfington Ensuring that your patient has the best possible financial experience when receiving care is a critical factor in the
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Why Transparency Is Important in Patient Financial Management

By Christopher Wolfington
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Healthcare Consumer Tips

By Christopher Wolfington
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Tips for Effective Billing Procedures

By Christopher Wolfington
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How to Handle Patient Finances Responsibly

By: Christopher Wolfington
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Getting a Handle on Patient Financial Management

By: Christopher Wolfington
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Healthcare Trends to Watch for in 2018

By: Christopher Wolfington
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How to Save on High Deductible Health Plans

By: Christopher Wolfington
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The Healthcare Bill Problem, Explained

By: Christopher Wolfington
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4 Ways to Avoid Medical Bankruptcy

By: Christopher Wolfington
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These are the 20 most exciting startups in Philly right now: realLIST 2017

By: Christopher Wolfington
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Payment Specialist

By: Christopher Wolfington
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By: Christopher Wolfington
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FinPay Selected to Present its NEXT GENERATION PATIENT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Solution at Vanguard’s 2016 Leadership Conference.

By: Christopher Wolfington
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FinPay Selected as one of AMERICA’S TOP STARTUPS.

By: Christopher Wolfington
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