Revenue Cycle Management
Los Angeles-based RadNet won for the easiest bill to understand, with a bill HHS said is "as concise as possible."
In fact, charges in the third quarter of 2015 were actually higher than charges in previous quarters.
Standard form EHR contracts can be a bit tricky to negotiate, according to Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
85 percent of providers are currently in RCM replacement mode or assessment, according to the newest Black Book Market Research report.
Coding quality is more important than ever, but other analytics tools are helping hospitals bridge the gap.
The clock is ticking and the agenda is filling for the Dec. 6-7 HIMSS and Healthcare Finance News Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit in Boston. Topic and speaker proposals are being accepted until next Friday, August 12.
New Hampshire, Colorado and Maine each received an A due to the increased quality of their reporting and transparency websites.
New mandatory bundled payments for cardiac care and rehabilitation will qualify for incentive payments under MACRA's new alternative payment model starting in 2018, according to CMS.
Even when patients were grouped by characteristics such as age or severity of illness, hospitals differed significantly in inpatient costs, length of stay, and time spent in the intensive care unit.
Outsourcing costs to vendors like CarePayment, ClearBalance offset by higher collections, executives say.