Billing and Collections
Fifty-five hospitals located in 21 states will pay a total of $34 million to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare for a spinal procedure that often can be performed on an outpatient basis without the need of costly hospital admissions.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices remained flat from April to May 2013, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In a competitive healthcare marketplace like Dallas-Ft. Worth, it's essential that a physician practice tightly manage its revenue cycle. Texas Health Physicians Group is doing that by tracking five key financial metrics.
As the economy improves and the housing market recovery gains force, employees are relocating at higher rates and driving up staff turnover nationwide, according to a recent Marketplace report.
The Healthcare Financial Management Association released on Sunday, the opening day of its annual conference, a draft of new best practices for patient financial interactions.
Selecting the "right" collection agency partner is critical for providers, a panel of experts said Monday at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla.
Improving revenue cycle performance at a hospital or health system often requires changes to processes and technology, but also demands a renewed sense of teamwork, said officials at New Jersey’s Atlantic Health System.
A TransUnion report released today finds that average patient out-of-pocket costs for healthcare have grown almost by 22 percent in a year.
More employers are considering adopting strategies that will help them be more efficient in the way they pay for healthcare services to slow rising costs, according to new survey data from human resources consulting firm Aon Hewitt.
John Stanton, Vice President of Consulting at RemitDATA, discusses new advances in health IT as they apply to claims processing and revenue cycle management, as well as RAC audits, big data, cloud computing, and comparative analytics in billing.