Revenue Cycle Management

To help U.S. hospitals manage risk and take full advantage of the new healthcare payment models, Thomson Reuters has introduced a suite of payment reform tools.

Professionals at healthcare organizations across the country expect costs to rise with healthcare reform but those costs will be tempered by increased access to care and organizational efficiencies.

CT scans in the emergency room have gone up dramatically in recent years. A new study links the increase in CT scans to fewer hospital admissions.

Three northeast Ohio health systems have created a for-profit company to aid the success of joint ventures in a competitive healthcare market.

A recent study in Health Affairs examined for the first time the effects that differences in healthcare service volume and price, rather than simply spending and use, have on state and regional Medicaid spending.

A study by the Center for Studying Health System Change shows that despite the rough economy, the competition for patients continues.

The American Academy of Family Physicians is warning its members that there may be a delay in the receipt of Medicare payments if an agreement on raising the federal government's debt ceiling is not reached by the Aug. 2 deadline.

In an era when healthcare organizations are laser-focused on cost, obvious excesses in spending are long gone. That doesn't mean the pressure to increase efficiency and reduce expenses has ended—it simply means that organizations have to look more closely at what they do, how they do it, and how much value they receive.

This article looks at how four healthcare providers are trimming the fat since PrivewaterhouseCoopers reported the nation's healthcare system loses $1.2 trillion a year.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its June 2011 Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program.