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Providers are increasingly outsourcing to ensure maximum collections amid changing payment models.
New payment models and technology in healthcare are bringing big changes to the hospital controller job as "following the money" has become more complicated than ever.
A network dispute could leave a quarter million Californians without access to a large, well respected health system, a story playing out across the country.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has recommended a 3.5 percent increase in the rates paid for inpatient and outpatient hospital procedures in 2016. The group also wants to level the field between what is paid to hospitals and physician offices.
Under a mantra of "consumer centricity," the nation's largest Blue Cross company is taking a long-view on America's changing demographics and insurance access points.
Advocates are grilling healthcare providers over the prices they charge patients for electronic or printed medical records, claiming some fees may even go as far as to violate HIPAA rules.
Relocation is expected to take as long as a decade
Population-based payments will make the new year interesting for those working in hospital revenue cycle. Add in the uncertainty surrounding ICD-10 implementation and financial managers have much to focus on in 2015.
Another co-op insurer is showing signs of struggle, if not financial collapse, as a state regulator steps in.
Health system will cut its workforce of 90,500 by 1.7 percent amid some hefty losses incurred in the expansion.