Revenue Cycle Management
Congress on Monday agreed to a reprieve of scheduled 23 percent Medicare pay cuts to physicians that would have started December 1. The measure means reimbursement levels will go untouched until January 1.
A pilot program being conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs is testing whether using a private contractor to collect healthcare records from private physicians can speed the processing of veterans' disability compensation claims.
I recently conducted an interview with two innovators in the healthcare space, Steve Mooney, president, Revenue Cycle Solutions and Jeff Nieman, senior vice president, Operations, at Conifer Health Solutions. Steve and Jeff offer some insights on what the future holds for revenue cycle management.
TeleTracking announced that Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC), a 530-bed hospital in Savannah, Ga., is managing assets more effectively and at a lower cost since deploying TeleTracking’s RadarFind sensor-network based real-time location system (RTLS).
HealthPort officials say they're scaling back their business to focus solely on what they do best - ROI solutions.
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the credit rating on more than $200 million in revenue bonds issued on behalf of the Nebraska Methodist Health System, a three-hospital system based in Omaha, Neb.
After three years of using Craneware's Chargemaster Toolkit at its five teaching hospitals, Continuum Health Partners will add new tools designed to improve revenue integrity.
On November 24, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is publishing its final rule updating the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (HOPPS) and the ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system rates and policies for calendar year (CY) 2011.
Hamilton Todd is a section manager with Mayo Clinic based out of its Jacksonville, Fla. location. Since retiring from the Navy in the early 1990s Todd has worked in revenue cycle management for Mayo serving all of its locations. In this month’s Q&A, Todd reflects on the state of medical banking in the industry as well as specific projects at Mayo Clinic.
Portico Systems, a Philadelphia-based developer of integrated provider management solutions, has announced the launch of its Master Data Management (MDM) solution.