Ask the Experts: Cost per day
Where can we find benchmarking data across other skilled nursing facilities related to costs per day for patient care?
Improving PHI Disclosure Efficiency in the Business Office
With pressure on providers to prove medical necessity and validate code assignments, business office staff must provide more patient information, such as medical records, putting greater demands on their time. Yale New Haven Health addressed this problem by implementing a centralized protected health information (PHI) disclosure management system.
Ask the Experts: Patient Payment Plan Structures
What criteria should we use to set minimum payments for patient payment plans?
The Plain Community: Meeting a Unique Consumer Healthcare Challenge
Jeff Goldsmith, John Porter, and Maria Royce describe one health system’s effective solution for addressing the healthcare needs of a religious community whose belief systems prevent them from accessing care via common, mainstream approaches.
Hospital Executives Say Charge Capture is Essential to Financial Success
Although charge capture is a critical method for ensuring hospitals are paid for the services they provide, revenue cycle teams may not be spending enough time evaluating their charge capture activities.
Interoperability and Patient Access to Health Data Proposed Rule Summary
This document summarizes the proposed rule on interoperability and patient access to health data, published by CMS, in the March 4, 2019, Federal Register.
2019 Coding Highlights Focus on New Technologies
What are highlights of the ICD-10 FY19 changes?
Increasing Patient Financial Engagement with a Revenue Cycle Management Overhaul
Atrium Health saw a 52 percent increase in new patient-payment-plan accounts and flexible patient payment plan opt-ins after it reevaluated its entire financial strategy and restructured its financial flow, all in the middle of its RCM system installation.
Meadows Health Digital Initiative Improves Patient Communication and Reduces Errors
Meadows Health patient engagement technology has had a positive impact on the registration process, patient satisfaction, and revenue.
Community Benefit & Transparency Tools
HFMA has compiled these resources for hospitals and health systems to use for compliance when listing standard charges to the public and procedures around charity care.