Revenue Cycle Management
In an era when healthcare organizations are laser-focused on cost, obvious excesses in spending are long gone. That doesn't mean the pressure to increase efficiency and reduce expenses has ended—it simply means that organizations have to look more closely at what they do, how they do it, and how much value they receive.
This article looks at how four healthcare providers are trimming the fat since PrivewaterhouseCoopers reported the nation's healthcare system loses $1.2 trillion a year.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its June 2011 Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program.
It's going to be a record-breaking year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the healthcare industry, according to a recent report from Irving Levin Associates.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices in June 2011 mirrored last month's slow but steady increase, rising 0.1 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ClearPractice's new cloud-based platform allows small practices to consolidate their EMR and PM functions on one platform, accessible by Macs, iPhones and iPads.
Three northeast Ohio health systems have created a for-profit company to aid the success of joint ventures in a competitive healthcare market.
New models for reimbursing physicians that put a greater financial risk on the medical practice is the No. 1 challenge in a list of five concerns that weigh most heavily on practice administrators, according to new research from the Medical Group Management Association.
Payers are on track for the implementation of ICD-10 and do not anticipate problems with processing payments -- at least according to Ian Bonnet, vice president leading the ICD-10 rollout at health insurer Wellpoint.
Is your facility accounting for all the cash it receives? In many instances, your Remit (Payment Posting) department could be receiving lockbox deposits or live checks that they are unable to post into the patient accounting system.