Revenue Cycle Management

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.

The new company will be able to offer health plans and providers a comprehensive suite of end-to-end financial and payment solutions and technologies, according to a McKesson statement.

The new brand offers a single enterprise solution that include analytics, consulting, health information management and revenue cycle management.

At its 2016 ANI event, the Healthcare Financial Management Association on Sunday named 150 healthcare providers as leaders for adopting best practices when it comes to patient financial communications, an important benchmark as patient financial responsibility rises.

Higher numbers of payers and practice managers coming to the show, underscoring the need for collaboration in the face of volume-to-value shift.

As the industry shifts toward population health initiatives and new value-based reimbursement models with the twin goals of reducing total cost of care and improving quality of care, it requires infrastructure investment and development.

As value-based reimbursement becomes the norm, consumers demand better-quality care, and federal agencies put new regulations in place, provider executives are feeling the impact. And perhaps no leader feels the effects of these changes more so than the chief financial officer.