Accounting & Financial Management

Practices are making frequent use of satisfaction surveys, cutting wait times, but more extended hours are needed, results show.

Insurer's health services business, Optum spurred growth.

Payments to outpatient care centers saw the most growth.

Leaders from the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce said healthcare providers need more time.

New research suggests a path forward that could save money while also improving patients' health.

By itself, the higher-value care intervention doesn't live up to its cost reduction potential, due mostly to inadequate funding, researchers say.

Evidence suggests the technology can assist clinicians in earlier detection of patient deterioration, helping to reduce patient length of stay, minimize use of intensive care units, reduce falls and pressure ulcers and avoid cardiac and respiratory arrests.

Attendees share photos, insights and potent one-liners on social media during the Healthcare Financial Management Association event in Las Vegas.

Running its own health plan has allowed this Wisconsin system to design a homemade value-based reimbursement model.

Higher numbers of payers and practice managers coming to the show, underscoring the need for collaboration in the face of volume-to-value shift.