Video: Tips for Direct-to-Employer Contracts from UNC Health
Understanding the time commitment and negotiation strategies around direct-to-employer contracts are key areas for payment and reimbursement leaders to consider.
Finding a Better Way to Handle Claim Attachments
Standardizing the electronic submission of claims attachments is a hot topic in the industry as stakeholders look for ways to reduce costs.
Legal Concerns in Telemedicine
Although telemedicine provides numerous benefits, it also presents some legal and regulatory challenges. Legal and regulatory concerns can be grouped under three main categories: Licensure laws; privileges and credentials; and confidentiality, privacy, and security.
How Providence Health Optimizes Its Customer Service Contact Center
By offering flexible and competitive work options, Providence Health maintains a high-performing customer service contact center that reduces bad debt and helps patients find financial assistance.
Negotiating Maternity Care Bundles
UTHealth’s maternity bundled payment pilot encountered two challenges: developing fair and consistent quality measures and defining what services would be part of the bundle.
Taking a Systematic Approach to Hospital Policy Development
Hospitals can develop effective policies by developing a “policy on policies,” taking into consideration content guidelines, making policies easily accessible by all staff, and considering how staff will interpret the policy language.
Using IT to Support Population Health Management
Healthcare CFOs should focus on more than cost savings when it comes to IT investment. They must also assign value to the potential impact on revenue.
MOON Form Approved
The MOON notice related to observation status was recently approved.
Negotiating a Joint-Venture Health Plan
Aspirus is one of many health systems that partner with insurance companies to form joint-venture health plans that bring healthcare financing and delivery closer together.
Combining Hospital and Physician Billing
In three very different health systems, administrators achieved success in bringing together hospital and physician billing. For example, CentraCare saved $1.5 million since it completed the integration in 2015.