Billing and Collections

Coding quality is more important than ever, but other analytics tools are helping hospitals bridge the gap.

Healthcare affordability, the future of Medicare on top of mind as voters weigh healthcare issues ahead of the November election.

Even for states that have managed to institute some kind of method for consumers to compare prices for healthcare services, patients have few options for finding current pricing on common procedures. That's what a study from the nonprofit advocacy group Public Citizen shows.

New Hampshire, Colorado and Maine each received an A due to the increased quality of their reporting and transparency websites.

Even when patients were grouped by characteristics such as age or severity of illness, hospitals differed significantly in inpatient costs, length of stay, and time spent in the intensive care unit.

Outsourcing costs to vendors like CarePayment, ClearBalance offset by higher collections, executives say.

Latest effort still falls short of what's needed, says American Hospital Association.

The new company will be able to offer health plans and providers a comprehensive suite of end-to-end financial and payment solutions and technologies, according to a McKesson statement.

At its 2016 ANI event, the Healthcare Financial Management Association on Sunday named 150 healthcare providers as leaders for adopting best practices when it comes to patient financial communications, an important benchmark as patient financial responsibility rises.

As health care consolidation accelerates nationwide, a new study shows that hospital prices in two of California's largest health systems were 25 percent higher than at other hospitals around the state.