MedCity News January 23, 2026
Tom Davis

By adopting a modern digital payment solution, payers can streamline operations, improve provider relationships and reduce fraud exposure. Most importantly, they gain a flexible, scalable foundation built to meet today’s demands and tomorrow’s challenges.

Healthcare’s payment systems are overdue for an upgrade. While other industries push forward with digital transformation, healthcare is still held back by paper checks, which is an outdated process that drives costs, slows reimbursements and strains provider relationships. This is why the motivation to tackle the paper check problem isn’t just about digital payment adoption. It’s about eliminating inefficiencies, reducing risk and modernizing the way healthcare does business.

The paper check problem

Healthcare continues to rely heavily on paper checks, and it comes at a price....

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