National Reference Laboratory, Associated Regional and University Pathologists, Inc. (ARUP Laboratories), Selects GHN-Online to Provide Real Time Internet-Based Transaction Processing and Claims Management Solutions to Its Laboratories
GHN-Online, a national leader in online and real-time clearinghouse and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solutions, announced today that Associated Regional and University Pathologists, Inc. (ARUP Laboratories) has selected GHN’s real time internet EDI solutions. ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory owned by the University of Utah with a primary focus on providing unique and complex medical testing to hospitals and laboratories in all 50 states. ARUP’s clients include more than half of the nation’s university teaching hospitals and children’s hospitals, as well as multi-hospital groups, major commercial laboratories, group purchasing organizations, military and government facilities, and major clinics.
Under the agreement, GHN-Online will begin implementation on key states immediately and expand into 35 states, leveraging GHN’s real-time 360 degree revenue cycle management (RCM) solution, designed to enable healthcare providers and payers to send, receive and pay medical claims faster. GHN-Online was selected based on its excellent track record in the laboratory market where its clients have already experienced the progressive state-of-the-art technology and exceptional cash savings GHN offers.
“We are pleased to add such a distinguished laboratory organization like ARUP Laboratories as a GHN client. We share ARUP’s commitment to improve patient care by delivering quality services to the laboratory market. Using GHN, ARUP can leverage our comprehensive revenue cycle management solution backed by a robust real-time architecture to execute faster and more accurate results to transform their business in a matter of days rather than months,” said Azadeh Farahmand, GHN-Online President and Chief Executive Officer. Considerable bad-debt reduction, working capital improvement, FTE repurposing, A/R days reduction and operational scalability are focus areas in GHN’s ROI model and service guarantees to its customers.
For more information on GHN-Online EDI and RCM solutions, please contact GHN at 214-696-5717.
About GHN-Online
GHN-Online (“GHN”) is the simplest and fastest claims to cash solution, anywhere.(TM) GHN is an enterprise class revenue cycle management company providing complete and accurate electronic claims transaction solutions to healthcare payers and providers in real-time via the Internet ( www.ghnonline.com ). GHN’s solution ensures the timely reimbursement of healthcare claims by providing an intuitive transaction management environment, which includes comprehensive data scrubbing, editing, status tracking and reporting features exclusive to GHN that assist the client in completing the continuum of healthcare claims transactions from insurance eligibility and claims submission to remittance and payment. GHN’s suite of services is provided via the Internet and can be integrated with any information system transmitting data in virtually any format.
About ARUP
ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. With nearly 1,800 employees, ARUP offers in excess of 2,000 tests and test combinations, ranging from routine screening tests to highly esoteric molecular and genetic assays. Rather than competing with its clients for physician office business, ARUP chooses instead to support clients’ existing test menus by offering highly complex and unique tests, with accompanying consultative support, to enhance their abilities to provide local and regional laboratory services. In addition, ARUP is a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development, led by the efforts of the ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology(TM). For more information about ARUP Laboratories, visit us at www.aruplab.com .
