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Nonprofit hospitals in California are facing the possibility of having to prove they provide the necessary amount of charity care to justify their tax-exempt status.
A recent study by a Harvard professor and her European colleagues has elicited a handful of insights about health exchanges similar to the ones that will be implemented in 2014 in the United States.
Developing efficient ways to network and communicate with the general public, current and former patients and their families, and healthcare providers will become even more important in the months and years ahead thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
Revenue cycle integrity is critical to financial performance and will be even more so with accountable care organizations, bundled payments and other changes coming with healthcare reform.
Like it or not, a new healthcare landscape is taking shape that runs counter to just about every convention the industry has ever known.
A recent report by Frost & Sullivan found that the market for revenue cycle management applications and services will grow 61 percent between 2012 and 2017 ($1.9 billion to $3.07 billion), as hospitals upgrade platforms to address coming cuts in Medicare and Medicaid payments under the Affordable Care Act.
Evan Schwartz, founding partner of New York-based law firm Quadrino Schwartz, said his organization used to see the occasional case of private insurers retrospectively auditing health care providers – they only litigated about 10 or so each year.
It may not be quite at epidemic levels, but merger mania has definitely taken hold in the healthcare field, and most certainly in New England.
One of the latest examples is the proposed partnership of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, the Lahey Clinic of Burlington, Mass., and Atrius Health, a Newton, Mass.-based consortium of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. Atrius Health is the largest physician organization in Massachusetts, with 1,000 physician members.
Most of the recent public attention paid to the federal Medicaid program has focused on the question of whether or not states will participate in the program’s expansion as allowed in the Affordable Care Act.
Steven Brill’s Time article, “Bitter Pill” sent a shock wave through the healthcare industry and prompted a response from the American Hospital Association to correct a series of mis-statements and financial assumptions.