Revenue Cycle Management
A company offering Web-based billing management software for small physician practices is looking to boost business with a new infusion of cash.
CarePayment Technologies, Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based provider of financial and patient advocacy services for healthcare providers, has acquired San Francisco-based Vitality Financial, which provides hospital payment solutions to medical providers and patients.
In a move that will add government program patient eligibility and enrollment services to its revenue cycle management suite, Emdeon has announced its agreement to acquire Chamberlin Edmonds & Associates, which serves more than 200 acute care facilities in 30 states.
CarePayment Technologies, Inc., a healthcare financial services company in Portland, Ore., has acquired San Francisco-based Vitality Financial, which provides hospital payment solutions to providers and patients.
CMS has issued instructions to states on how they can qualify for the extended enhanced federal Medicaid matching rates under H.R. 1586.
American CareSource Holdings, Inc., based in Dallas, has added three clients to its portfolio: Caprock HealthPlans, Inc., a Lubbock, Texas-based third party administrator, GreenTree Administrators, Inc., a Beaumont, Texas-based regional third party administrator, and Community Claims Administration, an Orange, Calif.-based third party administrator.
Michael Taylor is vice president of revenue cycle management at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The not-for-profit pediatric academic medical center has 523 registered inpatient beds, and had total operating revenues of $1,487,857 last year. Editor Richard Pizzi spoke recently with Taylor about the organization of revenue cycle operations at Cincinnati Children's, including some steps his team has taken to boost efficient operations.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Sept. 1 conference call on the new Resource Utilization Group payment categories for skilled nursing facilities, known as RUG-IV.
Passport Health Communications, a Franklin, Tenn.-based developer of business management and revenue cycle solutions for healthcare providers, on Wednesday unveiled Payment Navigator, a new solution designed to help match uninsured patients with the best available method of payment before they receive medical care.