Revenue Cycle Management

The Consult bought Scroggins Information Services for an undisclosed price.

Brad Sinclair has been named chief financial officer for the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s University Hospitals and Health System in Jackson, Mississippi.

The Consult Inc. this week said it will buy Physician Management Information Services for an undisclosed price.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare has named Lori Ritchey-Baldwin chief financial officer after serving as vice president of finance for the past two years

More than a century ago, Alabama enshrined a basic protection in the state's constitution shielding its poorest citizens from being forced to pay debts they couldn't afford. But a public hospital in the mostly rural southeast corner of the state has found a way around the law.

Revenue cycle management faces serious challenges, the third quarter report from research firm Black Book suggests, placing CFOs in the tough spot of trying to manage the costs of implementation with the need for more comprehensive systems.

Revenue cycle upgrades at U.S. hospitals have been pushed aside, in favor of preparation for the October 2015 ICD-10 transition and the chase for incentives tied to electronic health records, according to a Black Book survey of chief financial officers.

Despite the marketing buzz carried by terms like "population health" and "integration," experts say this kind of regionalization works best with partnerships between providers and commercial payers.

Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives saw its credit rating cut this week when Standard & Poor’s dropped it from a A+ to an A over first quarter losses.

UnitedHealthcare and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are piloting an episode of care, or bundled, payment model for patients being treated with head and neck cancers, a collaboration they describe as among the first to use bundled payments in a large, comprehensive oncology center.