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Healthcare IT Today: Using Data-Driven Fintech Tools to Tackle the Healthcare Affordability Crisis
PayZen Chief Risk Officer Chiranjib Gupta explains why data and technology allows patients to focus more on the care they’re receiving rather than how they’re going to pay for it.
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PR Newswire: PayZen Announces SOC 2 Type II Certification
With this certification, PayZen maintains its adherence to one of the most stringent, industry-accepted compliance frameworks for service organizations.
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PYMNTS: PayZen Enters Agreement with Iowa Hospital Coalition
PayZen signed a partnership agreement with ServiShare, a subsidiary of the Iowa Hospital Association (IHA), to serve as the preferred patient financing provider.
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Smart Money Awards: The Best Financial Apps and Services of 2022
With PayZen, patients aren't charged more than the initial medical bill.
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Becker’s Hospital Review: How Healthcare Organizations Can Create Affordability While Improving Patient Experience and Payment Collections
Two of the PayZen's leaders discussed how technology that enables customizable payment plans is reinventing the concept of patient financing.
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7wireVentures: Top of the Ladder Featuring Itzik Cohen, CEO of PayZen
How does a Euro league basketball champion go on to become a three-time startup founder? For Itzik Cohen, it was a feverish passion for technology.
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Future Healthcare Today: 3 Ways Providers Can Counter Inflation’s Impact on Hospital Finances and Healthcare Affordability
Amid this challenging financial environment, providers need to invest in optimizing every part of their revenue stream, particularly patient payments.
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Tearsheet What’s Happening in Payments Podcast: PayZen’s ‘Care Now, Pay Later’
PayZen wants to combat rising medical debt with ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ solution.
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Tearsheet: PayZen wants to combat rising medical debt with ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ solution
We explore how PayZen uses a variant of BNPL to tackle healthcare affordability in the US.
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Payments Dive: BNPL takes aim at healthcare, legal costs
In this third edition of our CEOs Sound Off series, we interviewed three CEOs of companies bringing installment payments to bear on consumer spending for healthcare, auto repair and legal services.
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Inc.: 5 Trailblazing Startups to Watch in the Health Care Industry
These companies are tackling the health care problem from different angles, all to the greater good.
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Leaders in Payments Podcast: Itzik Cohen, President/CEO of PayZen
So, how does a professional basketball player become president/CEO of a fintech payments company? Well, he’s 6’8″ with a passion for solving problems and a love for transformative technology.
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Compliance Week: PayZen Adds First Chief Risk Officer
In this newly created role, Chiranjib Gupta will lead credit risk and data science for PayZen and will help advance the company’s mission by building machine learning capabilities.
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Yahoo! Finance: PayZen Appoints Chiranjib Gupta as the Company’s First Chief Risk Officer
PayZen announced the appointment of Chiranjib Gupta as the company's first Chief Risk Officer. In this newly created role, Gupta will lead credit risk and data science for PayZen.
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Outcomes Rocket Podcast: Making Healthcare Affordable
Healthcare can be pretty expensive, but what if we told you there’s affordable access to it in the market?
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AP News: ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ Trailblazer PayZen Listed Among Black Book™ Top 50 Emerging HIT Solutions
PayZen has been ranked in the top 4 of Black Book’s list of Top 50 Emerging Healthcare Industry Solutions Challenging the Technology Status Quo.
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Becker’s Hospital Review: 6 Recent Big Tech Partnerships in Healthcare
Epic partnered with PayZen to add its "Care Now, Pay Later" tool to its App Orchard online marketplace. It's an artificial intelligence-powered tool that determines patients' ability to pay for care and allows providers to offer affordable payment options.
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The Shrimp Tank Podcast: Revolutionary Way to Pay for Healthcare! Buy Now or Pay Later with PayZen
CEO Itzik Cohen explains how PayZen is using FinTech to make healthcare affordable for all.
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Business Insider: ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ Pioneer PayZen Integrates with Epic, Joins App Orchard
PayZen, a mission-driven fintech company tackling healthcare affordability, today announced that its technology has been approved by Epic to offer its "Care Now, Pay Later" solution on the App Orchard Marketplace.
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PayZen Integrates with Epic’s App Orchard Marketplace
PayZen, a fintech startup tackling healthcare affordability in the U.S., today announced its technology has been approved by Epic to offer its “Care Now, Pay Later” solution on the App Orchard Marketplace.
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Yahoo! Finance: Allegiance Health Management Taps ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ Leader PayZen to Modernize Payment Affordability Strategy
Louisiana-based acute and post-acute health system, Allegiance Health Management, has selected PayZen, a fintech company tackling healthcare affordability, to provide its patients with a simpler, more modern and affordable way to pay for out-of-pocket medical expenses.
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Care Now, Pay Later Can Become a Game-Changer in the United States Healthcare Market
PayZen provides new artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology that allows the hospitals, healthcare systems, and physician groups to determine a patient’s ability to pay medical bills over time.
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Crunchbase: Medical Fintech Startup PayZen Raises $15M To Grow ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ Model
The round, announced Wednesday and led by SignalFire, included participation from Link Ventures and 7Wire Ventures alongside previous investors Viola Ventures and Picus Capital. The funding brings the startup’s total investments to $20 million since it was founded in late…
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TechCrunch: PayZen Secures $15M Series A for ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ Healthcare Platform
Healthcare costs in the U.S. are steadily rising, and the share patients must pay out-of-pocket has increased in tandem. Nearly one in three American households have delayed medical care due to its cost, per a 2019 Gallup poll.
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PRNewswire: SignalFire Backs ‘Care Now, Pay Later’ Pioneer PayZen to Fuel Healthcare Affordability
PayZen, a mission-driven fintech company tackling healthcare affordability, today announced it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. SignalFire led the round, with participation from Link Ventures and 7wireVentures, as well as existing investors Viola Ventures and Picus Capital,…
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Healthcare Finance: Geisinger Rolls Out Zero-interest Payment Plans for Out-of-pocket Medical Expenses
Health system Geisinger, based out of Danville, Pennsylvania, is entering into the Artificial Intelligence arena, rolling out an AI-backed approach to medical billing whereby patients can select zero-interest payment plans that can be paid out over a timeline of their…
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Pymnts.com: Geisinger Debuts Zero-Interest Payment Plans For Consumer Medical Expenses
Geisinger unveiled a customizable approach to medical billing Thursday (Aug. 19) that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and allows patients to choose zero-interest payment plans that can be paid off over whatever timeframe they choose, according to a press release.
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Becker’s Health: Geisinger Ups Payment Adherence 23% with AI-backed Payment Solution
Geisinger is partnering with fintech startup PayZen to launch an artificial intelligence-backed financing solution for patients. Any patient who has an out-of-pocket cost of more than $250 is eligible to create a personalized payment plan, according to an Aug. 19…
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Geisinger Partner with PayZen
Geisinger is introducing a new AI-backed, customizable approach to medical billing where patients have the power to select zero-interest payment plans that that can be paid over a timeline of their choosing.
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Becker’s Health: The Case for Fintech in Healthcare
Fintech has transformed many aspects of financial services over the past decade. Technologies such as AI and machine learning, for example, have helped unlock credit access to the previously unbanked. Likewise, fintech is helping to reduce fraud, speed up processes…
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Journal of Healthcare Contracting: Capstone Health Alliance Partners with PayZen
Capstone Health Alliance (Fletcher, NC) announced a new partnership with PayZen, a mission-driven FinTech company that uses data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create individualized patient payment plans that families can afford.
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PitchBook: Fintech Takes Aim at a $400B Healthcare Puzzle
After Omry Ben David's wife gave birth via a C-section, the couple received an unexpected medical bill totaling $20,000.
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PRNewswire: New Fintech Solution Pays Hospitals Upfront While Giving Patients Affordable Payment Plans
Patient financing startup PayZen comes out of stealth, announcing $5M funding round and joins forces with Revenue Cycle Management firm RMS and digital health company Vim to provide interest-free payment plans via hundreds of U.S. hospital systems.
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