Revenue Cycle Management
As healthcare delivery and reimbursement models transition to ensuring quality care versus quantity of care, some sectors of the healthcare industry will benefit more than others.
Real-time claims processing can result in financial benefits, so healthcare technophobes need to get on board.
CMS' Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model requires a degree of patience that many of the participating organizations couldn't afford, as evidenced by the recent announcement that nine are leaving the program.
An new national survey shows that, despite the one-year delay in ICD-10 compliance, many healthcare providers do not understand the value of the medical diagnostic codes that will be used beginning Oct. 1, 2014.
From the financial pangs at the pointy ends of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the frustrations and economic hardships courtesy of health information technology (HIT), a new physician outlook survey reveals the top challenges and concerns of physicians today.
Members of the skilled nursing community have been voicing concerns about the sector's ability to remain viable in the face of continued reimbursement cuts from the federal government. A new analysis bolsters their argument that SNFs are on shaky ground.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices rose slightly from May to June 2013, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A majority of healthcare providers are actively cutting costs in reaction to changes caused by healthcare reform finds a new survey by a supply chain improvement company.
Attention around front-end price disclosure has been growing for years as hospitals and health systems have sought to strengthen their revenue cycle management systems, streamline billing and payment processes, and increase collection success rates.
Under a proposed rule issued this week, CMS would make a separate payment to physicians for managing select Medicare patients' care needs beginning in 2015. Currently, Medicare only pays for primary care management services as part of a face-to-face visit.