Revenue Cycle Management

Venture capital investment in healthcare information technology continues to go gangbusters, with a record-setting Q3 seeing more than 150 separate deals that hauled in nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.

With hospital margins growing tighter and bad debt increasing, improving revenue cycle becomes more important than ever. Here are some tips to do that.

Dignity Health has formed a revenue cycle management company with Optum.

For the most part, the largest U.S. healthcare providers have been very organized and prepared for ICD-10 implementation. Is there anything we can learn from their experience?

Healthcare providers are still unclear about the ways in which the health insurance exchanges mandated by the ACA will impact them ... and their patients.

Financial concerns are causing medical group practices to approach participation in the insurance exchanges cautiously, found research released by the Medical Group Management Association on Monday.

The recession and the mandates outlined in the Affordable Care Act are changing the way hospitals do business, with a greater emphasis on clinical outcomes, cost efficiency, and quality of care and less emphasis on patient volume.

The ICD-10 transition is a wonderful opportunity for collaboration. More accurately, collaboration is a necessity.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, vital sexual health services for men and women are now covered by insurance plans at no extra cost. The law also ends annual and lifetime dollar limits on such care.

Firearm assaults cost U.S. hospitals almost $630 million in 2010, according to recent research by the Urban Institute. The cost of an inpatient stay for a firearm assault injury was nearly $14,000 more than average.