Practice Management Alert
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Published on Tue May 19, 2009
In April Cigna launched a cost of care estimator. This tool is designed to help practices estimate a patients bill at appointment time. The benefit: You may be able to increase your collections rate by capturing Cigna patients payment at the time of service. For more information, check out http://newsroom.cigna.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1016.
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