Revenue Cycle Management
The 450-bed North Kansas City Hospital said it has partnered with CarePayment to offer patients financing options to deal with ballooning out-of-pocket costs.
Clinical documentation improvement at Henry Ford Health System includes nurses serving as translators between physicians and coders and analytic tools that have added 2 percent to revenue cycle bottom line.
In this informal survey we're asking our provider audience to tell us who they use for their revenue cycle, and what they think of the tools.
Most U.S. healthcare providers are simply unprepared to convert to new payment models, according to a recent survey by KPMG's Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice, which found only 15 percent of the 164 healthcare professionals surveyed said their finance departments can support capitation, bundled payments and quality-based payments.
As the healthcare industry moves from volume to value, tech vendors including Cerner, Craneware, Premier Revenue Solutions LLC and ZirMed Inc. are attempting to fill the need in the market by working with hospitals to integrate their revenue, clinical and operational systems.
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Grades based on which states have legislation that dictates price transparency portals be set up.
There are a few ways that practice managers and providers can easily perform a profitability check-up against best practice benchmarks.
Revenue cycle company Emdeon this week announced plans to acquire Altegra Health, an analytics firm, for $910 million, a move the companies said will better position them as the industry moves to a value-based model.
Aside from collections, the Peer60 report found 25 percent of providers plan to outsource contract management.