Last week, cloud-based software services provider athenahealth released its 2014 PayerView Report, which leverages the company's data to provide insight into provider-payer relationships.
The report ranks healthcare payers based on various metrics, including provider collection burden — the percentage of allowed charges transferred from the primary insurer to the next responsible party, including coinsurance, deductibles and other transfers, such as non-covered services. According to the report, these are the 10 payers in the nation with the lowest provider collection burden percentages.
1. Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan (0.6 percent)
2. Mississippi Medicaid (1 percent)
3. New York Medicaid (1 percent)
4. Louisiana Medicaid (1.2 percent)
5. Network Health of Massachusetts (1.2 percent)
6. Priority Partners Managed Care Organization (1.3 percent)
7. Georgia Medicaid (1.4 percent)
8. Neighborhood Health Plan (1.4 percent)
9. Colorado Medicaid (1.5 percent)
10. Amerigroup of Texas (1.6 percent)
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