Billing and Collections

When Healthcare Finance last year asked experts to name the top industry trends, they selected insurance exchanges, mergers and acquisitions, new payment models, and technology. Things don't look much different in 2015.

The bonus boosted pay rates for primary care doctors who saw Medicaid patients to the same level as they are paid by Medicare.

More than a century ago, Alabama enshrined a basic protection in the state's constitution shielding its poorest citizens from being forced to pay debts they couldn't afford. But a public hospital in the mostly rural southeast corner of the state has found a way around the law.

More than $665 million will be distributed to states around the country to test new service and payment models, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday.

Consumers shopping on the health insurance marketplaces will find many plans with out-of-pocket spending limits that are lower than the maximums allowed under the health law, according to an analysis by Avalere Health.

National health spending grew 3.6 percent in 2013, the lowest annual increase since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began tracking the statistic in 1960, officials said Wednesday.

Patient experience is one component of value-based reimbursement, and hospital finance staff must be aware of the connection, and their role in contributing to the overall patient experience.

Viral hashtag campaigns aren't new, but it's not often you see groundswell campaigns about healthcare management topics.

Atlanta's Emory Healthcare will partner with payment financing firm CarePayment to create a flexible payment system as patients continue to be stretched thin by rising deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.

More healthcare providers are outsourcing end-to-end revenue cycle management amid the change to value-based payment models, a new survey shows. Experts predict the market for RCM outsourcing will approach $10 billion by 2016.