Healthcare Professionals for Healthcare Reform

EMBRACE will: 

• Reduce Emergency Room volume
• Improve cash flow (almost all acute care admissions will be Tier 1)
• Significantly reduce overhead associated with billing and other insurance related issues

Considerations

Because there will be increased access to primary care and urgent care clinics, patients would not need to rely on Emergency Rooms for their routine care or even semi-urgent care.

Since most acute admissions to the hospital would be Tier 1 and since all the billing would be electronic (even for Tier 2 and Tier 3), hospitals will not need to worry about getting paid for their service. There will be a significant reduction in the need to hire billers and even case workers to deal with insurance issues.

Hospitals will be able to use much of the savings to improve facilities and service for patients/clients.