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Let Advocate Take You There
ADVOCATE offers a truly complete, integrated approach to business issues that combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with a wide range of business and industry knowledge to help clients excel.
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ADVOCATE Information Management System (AIMS)
AIMS is an end-to-end business intelligence (BI) solution that delivers business information value to your practice. We provide you with a robust data integration tool, a number of powerful analytical and reporting components, and a web portal for disseminating information to management.
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ADVOCATE Technology
Advocate has invested more capital in technology than any other radiology specific billing company in the industry. Our investment in the latest technology has allowed us to build the premier radiology billing process.
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Consumer Driven Healthcare
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released estimates of health insurance coverage for the U.S. Based on this data, 24.3% of persons under 65 years of age with private health insurance were enrolled in a plan with all or a portion of their medical expenditures being consumer-directed.
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“ADVOCATE educated us on many areas of the industry that were negatively affecting our collection process. Their knowledge and detailed feedback to the physicians is impressive. Our collections are now higher than we anticipated. ADVOCATE met their... Robert Wahlbrink, M.D. - Diagnostic Radiology, Inc.
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A number of economic factors are pressuring radiology practices and imaging centers to significantly reduce costs including shrinking reimbursements and margins and rapidly changing business models. Click to read how ADVOCATE weighs in on industry issues.
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Improving cost management and control processes is essential to changing the way money is spent. Read on to see how ADVOCATE has worked with their client’s to help identify the critical steps for financial success.
READ MORE >>- Radiology Resource Management
Industry experts agree that imaging reimbursement will continue to come under downward pressure. With CPT coding changes and government cuts in reimbursement, there is continued pressure on top line revenue. ADVOCATE'S RRM™ offers a solution to maintain income through cost reduction, making it unmatched in accessibility and quality.
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