Revenue Cycle Management

Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services addressed several misunderstandings around ICD-10 in its "Myths and Facts" guide. While CMS debunked some of the most common ICD-10 myths, much of the industry is still confused about key topics.

The dental industry is not commonly considered a source of “best practices” for general healthcare reimbursement, but dental practices employ a number of strategic approaches that can be leveraged by other providers.

Hanging above physicians like the mythical sword of Damocles, the sustainable growth rate (SGR) provision threatens to impose a 24.4 percent decrease to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule on Jan. 1, 2014.

Reference pricing is a great cost-saving idea and I'd like to see more of it. But it’s a pretty poor argument for the superiority of the free market in healthcare.

Healthcare providers are expecting some form of slow down in accounts receivables immediately after the ICD-10 conversion in October 2014 – but less than one year from the deadline, it remains uncertain how significant these may be.

Payer audits are a major issue for providers these days, as everyone wants to collect and retain every dollar possible. What are some audit-related anxieties you have encountered in recent months?

Between 1980 and 2009, healthcare expenditures grew by 7.4 percent, which most economists agree would bankrupt the nation if continued.

Business pressures are forcing hospital CFOs to re-evaluate their revenue cycle management solutions, according to research done in 2013 by Black Book Rankings and HIMSS Analytics.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated a handful of documents in the past week on the controversial regulations surrounding its two-midnight inpatient admissions guidance and patient status reviews.

If hospitals and health systems do not get buy-in from their physicians, the ICD-10 transition may be hazardous to the health of the organization. Here are five tactics that will help.