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Sentara Healthcare decreased weekly eligibility-related denials by 7 percent and reduced incorrect insurance denials by 16 percent, reducing write-offs by roughly $1 million over a five-month period. Andy Weddle, vice president of revenue cycle at Sentara Healthcare, and Ed Caldwell, senior vice president of revenue cycle services at Emdeon, will lead a 7 a.m. early riser session, "Sentara Healthcare: Using Technology and Professional Services to Efficiently Manage Uncompensated Care," on Wednesday, June 27 and discussed the success story with Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau.
These days, healthcare systems feel pressured to transform in order to drive down costs and improve patient care. One way to cut costs is through gainsharing.
Healthcare financial executives will gather at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual ANI conference in Las Vegas on June 24 to 27 to discuss the biggest issues currently facing the industry.
David Walker, founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative and former U.S. Comptroller General, will be giving the keynote address at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, June 26 during the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI conference. He gave Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Stephanie Bouchard a glimpse of what attendees may expect to hear.
According to a recent industry survey by business intelligence and revenue cycle software provider Craneware, more than 60 percent of hospital executives believe effective revenue integrity programs are essential to the financial health of their organizations.
It's almost too perfect. Of all the GOP candidates President Barack Obama could possibly face in the 2012 election, he's been matched against Mitt Romney.
While AHIP Institute's session programming takes on most of the major and timely topics of the industry both in its general sessions and concurrent sessions, it also provides attendees who are early risers with highly focused information during its Networking Breakfasts program.
With technology playing a bigger and bigger role both in how healthcare is delivered to populations as well as where it is delivered, AHIP Institute 2012 will present a general session at 10 a.m. Thursday called "Brave New World of Health Care: At the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Delivery System Transformation" to help attendees better understand how emerging technologies are transforming the face of the industry.
This past March, Texas Children's Hospital in Houston opened its Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women after recently expanding a new West Campus in an effort to meet growing needs and a shift in population base. And with this growth came an excellent opportunity to streamline the system's supply chain.
Around 3,000 executives from the health insurance sector and related industries will converge beginning Wednesday in Salt Lake City for AHIP Institute 2012. This year's event is sure to be lively considering the impending Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act and the upcoming presidential election.