Revenue Cycle Management
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' website will soon publish the prices of the 140 most common in-patient, surgical and imaging services performed by every hospital in the state.
Without question, the recently reported one-year grace period granted to some insurers for out-of-pocket expenses will have a serious effect on the financial health of both patients and hospitals.
You could put off communicating with your healthcare payers until you submit your first ICD-10 coded claim Oct. 1, 2014. What could go wrong?
Medians for U.S. not-for-profit healthcare systems remained steady in 2012, but analysts expect a weakening in ratios due to the pressures of healthcare reform.
Underlying changes in some healthcare cost factors appear to be taking root and have some economists wondering if the slowdown in healthcare spending growth may last beyond the near term.
As medical supply prices have steadily risen in recent years, many hospitals have turned to group purchasing organizations to buy in bulk and keep costs down, but group product purchasing also complicates the product supply trail, often leading to errors that prevent fulfillment, delivery and payment.
Healthcare prices in the United States rose marginally from June to July 2013, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, although the rate of increase was higher than a year ago.
Farzad Mostashari, Dick Foster and Uwe Reinhardt lead a panel discussion at Health Datapalooza IV to discuss whether or not the current surge in public and private sector spending on health IT programs is going to reduce healthcare costs.
When it comes to hospital construction and design, the decisions around what is built and how it's built all have significant impact on not only an organization's bottom line, but also the quality of care given to patients.
Too often healthcare providers find themselves handicapped when it comes to optimizing business processes because their primary mission is care, and business comes second.