Revenue Cycle Management

Hospitals are cutting their operating costs in order to adjust to reduced revenues as Medicare tightens payments.

According to a new report by Moody's Investors Service, the health insurance exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act may increase risks to credit quality that will pressure not-for-profit hospital revenues in 2014.

In the revenue cycle management market, hospitals show high adoption of technology focused on eligibility and scheduling, with much work left to be done around charity screening and propensity to pay, according to a new report from HIMSS Analytics.

Venture capital investment in healthcare information technology continues to go gangbusters, with a record-setting Q3 seeing more than 150 separate deals that hauled in nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.

With hospital margins growing tighter and bad debt increasing, improving revenue cycle becomes more important than ever. Here are some tips to do that.

Dignity Health has formed a revenue cycle management company with Optum.

For the most part, the largest U.S. healthcare providers have been very organized and prepared for ICD-10 implementation. Is there anything we can learn from their experience?

Healthcare providers are still unclear about the ways in which the health insurance exchanges mandated by the ACA will impact them ... and their patients.

Financial concerns are causing medical group practices to approach participation in the insurance exchanges cautiously, found research released by the Medical Group Management Association on Monday.

The recession and the mandates outlined in the Affordable Care Act are changing the way hospitals do business, with a greater emphasis on clinical outcomes, cost efficiency, and quality of care and less emphasis on patient volume.