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For outpatients who receive care on both Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, the challenge will billing under both ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnostic coding vocabularies.

Map and table shows the state-level incentive totals for meaningful use incentives from January 2011 to February 2015.

Facing a $170 million budget shortfall, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and other lawmakers are floating a raft of ideas to save money, including an increase in the state hospital tax, Medicaid funding cuts, limits on hospital tax credits and a new way for municipalities to tax hospital property.

The integration moves the health systems away from fee-for-service to care that’s value based, eliminating unnecessary costs.

The agency had argued that the $195 million takeover violated federal antitrust laws and greatly reduced healthcare competition in the southwest Georgia.

Importance chief financial officers are placing on investments represents a major shift in the past 10 years, experts say.

Maryland hospital has turned heads in the industry for its approach to revenue cycle and has consistently hit high benchmarks in patient access, revenue integrity, claims adjudication and management.

According to the nonprofit healthcare provider, operating revenue was $4.3 billion in the second quarter compared to $3.5 billion in the prior period.

Many providers are still utilizing technology that goes back decades and doesn’t have the functionality for an increasingly complex billing landscape, which raises the question: Are first-generation RCMs ripe for a "rip and replace" treatment?

In October 2014 ,the company agreed to pay $350 million and another $39 million in civil forfeiture to resolve claims it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce the referral of patients to its dialysis clinics.