Revenue Cycle Management

The Baylor Health Care System, based in Dallas, has selected a vendor to manage the automated processing of nearly 300,000 invoices per year across its 12-hospital system.

Hopefully hospitals have been taking advantage of the slow CMS RAC audit implementation process to make their hospitals RAC-ready. Billing compliance and audit preparedness for claims reviews should be a permanent part of your facility's DNA.

Jordan Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital in Plymouth, Mass., has installed a new denials management tool and is now using a complete revenue cycle product suite in its business office.

McKesson has added another important piece to the revenue cycle management puzzle for hospitals and other healthcare providers.

Revenue cycle management is one of the largest and most significant healthcare product categories in the age of stimulus fund, pay for performance and self-pay models. Our September 2009 issue provides an overview of the trends and products shaping RCM.

The growing popularity of registration kiosks in hospitals and doctors’ offices has not only made it easier for patients to check in, it has given providers the perfect opportunity to push revenue cycle management tools to the front end.

In the coming weeks, many providers will begin to feel the effects of the Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), a program that began as a demonstration project by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

CIGNA's Cost of Care Estimator and extended weekend and holiday call service hours are now available to almost all 550,000 CIGNA-contracted physicians, hospitals and free-standing clinics.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, one of the nation's premiere cancer treatment centers, has signed a multi-year contract for revenue cycle management and collection management services.

Craneware, Ohio university collaborate on curriculum Craneware Inc., a supplier of chargemaster and revenue-cycle software solutions, is collaborating...