Our Solution
Keep Your Financial Assistance Program On Track
Our experts understand the entire financial assistance application process, from beginning to end, and have decades of experience in creating better, more efficient systems to support these programs.
We Help Drive Your Success
Our experience means we know it takes more than an easy eligibility checker and application to streamline the financial assistance process. We know there is still a burden on your internal departments to process these applications. Which is why the team at Breez can also act as an outsourced FAP solution to optimize your internal teams resources.
3 Levels of Support To Choose From:
Depending on how much additional support your team needs, we have three different levels of support services that can be customized for your hospital. If you need a little pre-processing support, or are looking to outsource your entire financial assistance program – Breez makes it easy.
Pre-processing
support only
Daily report of all online applications received with pre-determinations based upon patient entries and your eligibility criteria.
What you need to finish processing:
- Verify patient entries with supporting documents submitted
- Notify patients of their determinations
- Post discounts in your system
Application processing with document verification
Daily report of all online applications received with verified determinations based upon patient entries, supporting document review, and your eligibility criteria.
What you need to finish processing:
- Notify patients of their determinations
- Post discounts in your system
Comprehensive Financial Assistance Processing Partnership
Our team of experts works within your system to complete all financial assistance application processing steps. A complete FAP outsourcing solution that optimizes your program, reduces risks, finds hidden revenue opportunities and most importantly – helps community members in need.
Online Financial System Platform
Our FAP technology is easy-to-customize and scalable to meet the needs of your growing organization. It includes a tool for patients to quickly see their eligibility, access an online application portal, and answers to commonly asked questions to guide patients in their decision making.
Learn How Breez Makes Financial Assistance Easy
Insights
How to enact effective medical debt legislation
More than half of U.S. adults say they’ve gone into debt in the past five years because of medical bills.
Read Nick’s latest blog to learn why a streamlined Financial Assistance Program should be the next big initiative for nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.
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Nick McLaughlin discusses medical debt on Ask a Doctor podcast
More than half of U.S. adults say they’ve gone into debt in the past five years because of medical bills.
Read Nick’s latest blog to learn why a streamlined Financial Assistance Program should be the next big initiative for nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.
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Financial Assistance Programs Help Hospitals Find Hidden Revenue in Bad Debt
More than half of U.S. adults say they’ve gone into debt in the past five years because of medical bills.
Read Nick’s latest blog to learn why a streamlined Financial Assistance Program should be the next big initiative for nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.
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Breez Health Partners with NRHA to Streamline Financial Assistance at Rural Hospitals
More than half of U.S. adults say they’ve gone into debt in the past five years because of medical bills.
Read Nick’s latest blog to learn why a streamlined Financial Assistance Program should be the next big initiative for nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.
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Webinar on Demand: Ohio HCAP, Charity Care, and Financial Assistance
More than half of U.S. adults say they’ve gone into debt in the past five years because of medical bills.
Read Nick’s latest blog to learn why a streamlined Financial Assistance Program should be the next big initiative for nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.
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The Top 3 Reasons Why Streamlined Financial Assistance Should be the Next Big Initiative for Nonprofit Hospitals
More than half of U.S. adults say they’ve gone into debt in the past five years because of medical bills.
Read Nick’s latest blog to learn why a streamlined Financial Assistance Program should be the next big initiative for nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.
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New APS Vendor Offers Online Financial Aid Application Solution
APS hospitals can now strengthen their financial assistance programs by accessing an online platform that allows patients to quickly and accurately determine eligibility and complete a financial aid application themselves.
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Inspired by a mission-first model: Patrick Whisennand
As the newest member of the growing Breez Health team, we sat down with Patrick Whisennand, Senior Account Executive to ask him, “Why Did You Join Breez?”
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Connecticut Post interviews Nick McLaughlin for report on hospital financial assistance
Nick McLaughlin, CEO of Breez Health, was interviewed as an expert source on why hospitals benefit when patients use their financial assistance programs.
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Breez CEO Nick McLaughlin part of hospital pricing panel on WNPR
Nick McLaughlin, the founder and CEO of Breez Health, wrote this article for MedCity News following the announcement that the White House was launching a medical debt initiative and the three major credit bureaus planned to remove 70% of medical debt from consumers’ credit reports.
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Nick McLaughlin talks hospital financial assistance policies on the Late Night Health Radio podcast
Breez Health founder and CEO Nick McLaughlin was a guest on the Late Night Health Radio podcast with host Mark Alyn. Nick talked about how having insurance isn’t enough to keep patients out of medical debt, on who qualifies for hospital financial assistance, and how it’s mutually beneficial for both patients and hospitals to take advantage of financial assistance policies. Below are some of the highlights of what Nick had to say.
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MedCity News: Credit bureaus are removing medical debt, but hospitals can prevent it
Nick McLaughlin, the founder and CEO of Breez Health, wrote this article for MedCity News following the announcement that the White House was launching a medical debt initiative and the three major credit bureaus planned to remove 70% of medical debt from consumers’ credit reports.
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You Ask, We Answer: How much information is enough for Financial Assistance approval?
By Nick McLaughlin Question: What are your best practices or procedures for patient cooperation to obtain the documents to qualify them for your Financial/Charity program? Many times, a patient is denied not because they don’t qualify, but because they did not provide all the information we require with our application form. Also, what is the …
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AHA Releases 2022 – 2024 Strategic Plan – What’s on the Horizon for Hospitals?
By Nick McLaughlin Last week The American Hospital Association released their 3-year strategic plan (2022-2024), which outlines five areas of focus that they will be aligned with. The areas include helping hospitals to: Provide Better Care and Greater Value Ensure the Financial Stability of Hospitals and Health Systems Enhance Public Trust and Confidence in Hospitals …
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Goodroot welcomes Breez into its community of companies
COLLINSVILLE, CT March 29, 2022 — It was announced today that Breez Health, formerly known as Hospital Financial Assistance (HFA), is joining the Goodroot community of companies. Goodroot and affiliate businesses are dedicated to reinventing healthcare one system at a time. Breez Health partners with hospitals to make it easy for patients to access and …
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Avoiding Five Common Financial Assistance Program Pitfalls
By Nick McLaughlin Some may argue that the biggest pitfall of hospital financial assistance programs is that many in the general population are unaware of their existence in the first place. That may be true, but lack of awareness is not the only problem. Hospitals are pillars of their communities, integral to the fabric of …
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Increasing Transparency in Hospital Community Benefit Reporting
Did you know there are communities where for-profit hospitals provide more charity care than #nonprofit #hospitals and government hospitals in the same market?
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2018 American Hospital Association Analysis – Tax Exempt Hospitals Provided $105 Billion in Community Benefit
American #hospitals are required to report to the federal government their community benefit activities in exchange for their tax-exempt status.
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Mississippi Proposed Solutions to Medical Debt
Taking legal action to recover #MedicalDebt is never pleasant, and the #Mississippi state legislature is taking action to curb the practice in their state.
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