Revenue Cycle Management
Recently, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) announced the winners of its 13th annual GHXcellence Awards, which honor supply chain leaders who have achieved significant savings and efficiencies. Two of the winners shared their success stories with Healthcare Finance News.
A recent report released by Standard & Poor's Rating Services says their rating agency is concerned that Big Pharma's current American pricing flexibility may diminish increasingly over the next few years due to rapidly growing costs of Medicare and Social Security with the aging of the U.S. population, and public and private sector healthcare payers looking to control their medical expenses.
At the end of last week, University Hospitals (UH) and EMH Healthcare (EMH) announced that they had signed a letter of intent to officially undergo an integration that will add EMH to the UH health system.
A recent study published in the Medicare & Medicaid Research Review concludes that use of ambulatory EHRs by community providers resulted in both higher and lower Medicaid costs.
While consumers indicated in a recent survey that they like the bundled care model, a new survey on provider attitudes towards bundles finds mixed reviews.
Every hospital supply chain administrator fantasizes of an efficient way to create transparency in supply expense reporting and find cost savings. Administrators at Arizona's Banner Health made their fantasy a reality, creating a supply chain blue book.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices remained flat from April to May 2013, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
With so many reimbursement considerations to think about with the transition to ICD-10, such as reduced cash flow and an increase in denials and audits, the best defense for healthcare systems is to know what to expect and begin preparing for the changes now.
In a competitive healthcare marketplace like Dallas-Ft. Worth, it's essential that a physician practice tightly manage its revenue cycle. Texas Health Physicians Group is doing that by tracking five key financial metrics.
Improving revenue cycle performance at a hospital or health system often requires changes to processes and technology, but also demands a renewed sense of teamwork, said officials at New Jersey’s Atlantic Health System.