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As the way hospitals and other healthcare providers get paid undergoes dramatic changes under value-based reimbursement, there is growing importance surrounding the revenue cycle operations. On Monday, HIMSS Media held its third Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit, hosting a standing-room-only crowd at the HIMSS16 conference. Below are some of the insights shared on Twitter during that event.
Republican governor supports expansion, has been in talks with Obama administration.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday issued its final annual notice of benefit and payment parameters for the 2017 health insurance marketplace.
The rule finalizes provisions to help consumers with surprise out-of-network costs at in-network facilities.
Shawn Griffin, MD, chief quality and informatics officer for Houston-based Memorial Hermann Physician Network, posed a question Monday at the Volume to Value-based gathering at HIMSS16, illustrating what he says should be the key driver in any system's move from volume to value-based payment.
LAS VEGAS - Providers may be pleasantly surprised by new payment models when they learn how much they would have been paid had they participated, according to Rene Cabral-Daniels, CEO of the Community Care Network of Virginia.
Two Dallas-area doctors have been charged, according to a superseding indictment that was unsealed Friday, for their alleged participation in a $13.4 million health care fraud scheme that bilked Medicare for millions.
LAS VEGAS - Health information exchange is an essential tool to support the transition to value-based payment models, according to Alex Baker of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who gave an overview of federal initiatives and how states, hospitals and physicians can benefit from the innovations, during HIMSS16 in Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS- HCA Far West Division, a network of hospitals and surgery centers in California and Nevada, on Tuesday broke ground on a new provider-based emergency facility called ER on the Lakes.
LAS VEGAS - Experian Health, a technology vendor that specializes in automating and integrating revenue cycle and patient care coordination, has announced at HIMSS16 that it has adopted the brand Experian Health across its entire portfolio of healthcare businesses.