Billing and Collections

The health system relied heavily in employee training, improved hiring guidelines and staff incentives to create the kind of culture needed to improve collections.

Steve Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS, talks about some of the major announcements and activities at HIMSS16, including new government funding for health IT and emerging new payment models.

Bert Zimmerli, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Intermountain Healthcare, enthuses about wireless technology, sensors and connected health as they pertain to the growing focus on revenue cycle management in healthcare.

Deborah Essex of Aspen Valley Hospital explains how incentives led to increased patient collections for the Colorado-based facility.

Bobbie Kite, a doctoral student at the University of Texas School of Public Health, sketches out a breakdown of hospital chargemaster lists, thier role the current U.S. healthcare model, and implications of the ACA.

John Stanton, Vice President of Consulting at RemitDATA, discusses new advances in health IT as they apply to claims processing and revenue cycle management, as well as RAC audits, big data, cloud computing, and comparative analytics in billing.