Accounting & Financial Management
More healthcare providers are outsourcing end-to-end revenue cycle management amid the change to value-based payment models, a new survey shows. Experts predict the market for RCM outsourcing will approach $10 billion by 2016.
Dr. Oliver Korshin, a 71-year-old ophthalmologist in Anchorage, is not happy about the federal government's plan to have all physicians use electronic medical records or face a Medicare penalty.
Collaboration with university-based business schools can bring a new perspective to hospital and health system problems, especially when trying to introduce new thinking into an organization.
The former chief financial officer of a now-closed Texas hospital is one step closer to a potential five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to wrongly claiming EHR incentive money.
The Affordable Care Act is injecting billions upon billions of dollars to provide Medicaid to previously uninsured people. More money should help healthcare providers' finances, not hurt them. So what's going on?
As more new patients come into the healthcare system, savvy providers are seeing opportunities to develop better relationships with the hope that it will translate to greater bill collection success.
Clinical data has the potential for helping those involved in population health take a large step forward. While adjudicated claims data have a significant lag to them, clinical data is closer to real-time, allowing for interventions while the patient is in need.
Healthcare providers can expect an increase in medical claim denials after Oct. 1, 2015. But that doesn't have to mean that revenue will be lost.
Opportunities still exist within the healthcare supply chain for improvement and greater efficiency of operations. Lately, price alignment strategies appear to be at the forefront as the newest hope for cost containment.
Although CMS paused the RAC audit program in March, hospitals must remain vigilant. The agency has promised a new round of recovery auditor contracts will be awarded before the end of 2014.