Revenue Cycle Management
University Hospitals, a healthcare system in northeast Ohio, has joined up with three smaller health systems in the state to create a new purchasing collaborative to save money on supplies and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery.
Hospitals make more of a profit when surgical patients develop complications finds a new study published Wednesday in JAMA.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates that healthcare fraud costs are approximately $80 billion annually. To prevent some of the billions from being siphoned from the healthcare system, many organizations are turning toward analytics.
U.S. employers are expected to increasingly shift toward self-funding their group health insurance plans as a result of the health reform law, according to a survey of health insurance executives released Monday by Munich Health North America, a subsidiary of Munich Re.
In the era of reform, healthcare providers will have to operate more like any other business by using the most efficient methods to deliver and pay for the most effective care, said a panel representing the banking industry and healthcare payers and providers during a business of healthcare session at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition last week. Electronic transactions offer an attractive solution.
Across the country, hospitals and health systems are transitioning to accountable care organizations (ACOs). What does it take to do that?
With doctors across the country continually on pins and needles regarding their reimbursement rates, proponents of telemedicine and telehealth are telling doctors the technologies offer them a stable revenue stream and lifestyle options.
In order for the country's healthcare system to survive in the next few years, every healthcare provider is going to have no choice but to make innovative changes and involve patients in the care process. So said longtime health IT advocate C. Peter Waegemann, founder of the now-defunct Medical Records Institute, during a webinar Thursday.
As the ICD-10 deadline looms closer, many healthcare organizations are still trying to come up with the most effective communications, collaboration and testing strategies to assure implementation of the diagnostic and procedural code set change. It is important to understand how cash flow is impacted and where and how to manage other resources.
By 2014, the core operating rules will likely have a major effect on reimbursement and revenue cycle processes and, as a result, payments, according to speakers who represented the payer, provider and banking perspectives at a Tuesday session titled "The Business Side of Care" during the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition.