Holliday & Associates: Comprehensive Charge Management Software
A charge management company discusses how it helps clients successfully manage charge processes, comply with changing coding and regulatory requirements, eliminate charge-related compliance risks and ensure accurate and appropriate reimbursement.
How an Iowa hospital earned 2 MAP Awards for excellence in revenue cycle performance
Henry County Health Center, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, has earned two MAP Awards and made noticeable strides toward financial transparency.
Finding our way to meaningful price transparency
Healthcare organizations have the technology to deliver meaningful transparency to patients, including out-of-pocket estimates prior to service and clear, understandable patient statements.
2018 patient out-of-pocket costs increase 12%
A recent analysis found that about 59% of patients in 2018 had an average out-of-pocket expense between $501 and $1,000 during a healthcare visit. This was a dramatic increase from 39% in 2017.
How providers should adapt to the demands of a consumer-driven healthcare system
Insights during a 2019 HFMA Annual Conference cohort revealed various approaches that providers can use to meet the increasingly urgent challenge of improving the patient experience.
Change Healthcare: Curbing Bad Debt by Improving the Patient Financial Experience
In this roundtable, several revenue cycle leaders discuss how they are tackling escalating patient responsibility, exploring the value of putting individuals on pathways toward payment that boost satisfaction and revenue.
Ontario Systems: Helping Healthcare Organizations Realize the Benefits of an Accountable Collections Team
Steve Scibetta, vice president and general manager at Ontario Systems, offers strategies for optimizing the revenue cycle, including employing supportive accounts receivable technology and building an accountable collections team.
BLS|Revecore: Technology-Driven Underpayment Review Services
In this article, BLS|Revecore talks about how its underpayment review technology and deep industry expertise help organizations collect dollars that would otherwise go unrecovered.
Healthcare leaders should re-envision the revenue cycle as a driver of value
HFMA President and CEO Joseph J. Fifer explains why hospital and health system leaders should frame the revenue cycle as a value driver rather than as a cost center.
HFMA Survey: Chargemaster Costing Capabilities
HFMA is gathering information to understand hospitals' costing capabilities at the inpatient discharge and outpatient visit/service level.