Accounting & Financial Management
Missed appointments have a negative effect on clinical productivity, and unused clinical space and staff time equate to loss of revenue.
Billing process causes so much confusion that patients say they aren't 100 percent sure what they owe until the collections agencies call. Providers and payers must band together on smarter benefit design.
TransUnion Healthcare's Revenue Cycle leader Jonathan Wiik will shed light on evolving healthcare payment landscape where patients now represent a third of billing revenue.
Stock market at closing bell recovered to an 1,175 point drop.
Aetna posts strong fourth quarter, but a 16 percent decrease for the year.
Health system's marketing team uses data to target higher-paying commercially insured consumers to balance growing Medicare demographic.
The growth in expenses is attributed largely to rising prices for emergency department visits, surgery and prescription drugs.
Innovation Care Partners built a dashboard to engage physicians and offers them financial incentives to use the tool. The combination has already resulted in lower readmissions.
The operating loss per physician jumped from a 10 percent loss of net revenue to a 17.5 percent loss.
Hospital executives and finance teams are missing an opportunity to save money in paying unfunded pension liability. Here's how to avoid that costly mistake.