Revenue Cycle Management
St. Louis-based Ascension Health has tapped Accretive Health as its sole revenue cycle system provider, the nonprofit Catholic health system announced this week, under a new 10-year contract extension that includes the total revamp of its revenue cycle system.
The boundary between being a provider and a payer is blurring as hospitals face more risk, according to Joe Nichols of Health Data Consulting, prompting health systems to make changes to keep from losing too much money.
HIMSS and Healthcare Finance are accepting topic and speaker proposals for the Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit, February 29 in Las Vegas at HIMSS16 Annual Conference.
A host of healthcare providers, academics and technology vendors on Monday and Tuesday will discuss ways they are optimizing their revenue cycle processes to keep cash flow at a maximum while providing the best patient experience.
Douglas Hough, associate scientist at the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University, on Monday drew links between what he said are standard policy levers in behavioral economics and strategic points to fine tune the revenue cycle.
This year, Healthcare Finance is asking its audience of healthcare finance decision-makers to help us rank the top issues with its inaugural, "Year that was, year that will be" survey.
As the state-run Hawaii Health Systems Corp. faces a $50 million budget shortfall, one of its key executives is mulling his options after laying claim to some of the system's most successful initiatives.
Todd Craghead, who oversees $5 billion in annual gross patient revenue for the Utah health system, is leading the system's consolidation of revenue cycle functions across 22 hospitals and more than 100 physician clinics.
The revenue cycle is a complicated circuit of administrative, technological, financial and patient-level processes that many healthcare administrators say is in need of streamlining.
The Tennessee health system will implement an electronic health record and revenue cycle system across all its hospitals, clinics and other provider facilities that together serve more than 1.1 million patients annually.