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 metrics such as days in accounts receivable, first-pass resolution of claims, denial rate and provider collection burden. Based on overall performance, the following are the top 10 payers in the nation, according to athenahealth.
1. Humana
2. HealthPartners
3. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
4. Healthsource (a Cigna subsidiary)
5. Group Health Cooperative
6. Medicare Part B (Missouri)
7. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Pennsylvania — Capital BlueCross
8. Blue Cross Blue Shield of the Washington, D.C.
9. Medicare Part B (Indiana)
10. Medicare Part B (Oregon)
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