Healthcare Finance Staff

Adding full-time employees doesn't guarantee improvements, professor says.

St. Luke's Health System completely transformed the experience for patients, using analytics to better understand accounts and offering options such as longer term payment plans to patients who may need help paying down their balances.

HIMSS senior director of state and federal affairs expects the administration will focus on two areas: reimbursement models and benefit design.

The Steward Healthcare vice president says the consequences of not watching vendors closely can be too costly to ignore.

The health system relied heavily in employee training, improved hiring guidelines and staff incentives to create the kind of culture needed to improve collections.

The president-elect's policies will have immediate impact on U.S. hospitals, ambulatory centers, health insurers and supply chain companies.

Tran has led finance teams for several top-ranked health plans.

The clock is ticking and the agenda is filling for the Dec. 6-7 HIMSS and Healthcare Finance News Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit in Boston. Topic and speaker proposals are being accepted until next Friday, August 12.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting topic and speaker proposals for Pop Health Forum 2016 scheduled for September 12-13 in Chicago.

LAS VEGAS – Officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday said physicians should expect meaningful use of electronic health records to still be required under coming changes to how CMS pays them under MACRA.