Revenue Cycle Management
A newly released update to the landmark 2008 Nachimson study says two-thirds of practices would fall in the upper range of implementation cost projections.
Predictive analytics is becoming an important part of the revenue cycle in hospitals in the effort to deliver higher quality care at lower cost.
The hospital company said the controversial “two-midnight” rule, which took effect during Q4, did have a negative impact on admissions metrics, but revenue per equivalent admission increased 4.8 percent on a same facility basis.
Hard numbers for return on investment in health IT aren't always measurable, at least in a direct way. Instead, healthcare organizations need to look at both "hard" and "soft" savings when considering a system's ROI.
The next year will be a busy one for all involved in healthcare finance, between handling the influx of patients newly insured under the Affordable Care Act, the ICD-10 coding launch on Oct. 1, the continued proliferation of RAC audits and a variety of Medicare regulations.
In 2007, BCBS of Massachusetts asked Lowell General Hospital to accept a monthly capitated payment to care for its HMO members. The hospital simultaneously saw the potential and recognized the risks.
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Medical costs in commercial plans slowed between August 2012 and August 2013, according to the S&P Healthcare Claims Indices.
Maryland officials have reached what analysts say is an unprecedented deal to limit medical spending and abandon decades of expensively paying hospitals for each extra procedure they perform. If the plan works, Maryland hospitals will be financially rewarded for keeping people out of the hospital.
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