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Business pressures are forcing hospital CFOs to re-evaluate their revenue cycle management solutions, according to research done in 2013 by Black Book Rankings and HIMSS Analytics.

March is Women’s History Month, so in that spirit: What are your thoughts on being a 
female CEO in the healthcare industry?

The compensation of healthcare CEOs is always an attention getter, partly because what goes into a compensation package often seems murky from the outside looking in.

Could you describe Conemaugh Health System?

ABIM has focused on credentialing and opening discussions about unnecessary care. How will you build on those and what future projects can you see yourself involved in through ABIM and the ABIM Foundation?

Commercial and public payers and providers toiled in the trenches putting accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other new models of payment and delivery to work this year to determine if they in reality could improve quality and cost.

Two regulations in particular had the attention of hospitals this year: the two-midnight rule and the final rule on disproportionate share hospital payments from Medicaid.

The issue of price transparency has been bubbling beneath the surface for some years but it boiled up last winter and has stayed top-of-mind ever since.

Healthcare providers are expecting some form of slow down in accounts receivables immediately after the ICD-10 conversion in October 2014 – but less than one year from the deadline, it remains uncertain how significant these may be.

Whether or not accountable care organizations should take on more risk after just one year of experience or after three years in the Medicare Shared Savings Program was the issue the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission addressed at its monthly meeting Thursday.