Revenue Cycle Management

Healthcare News of Note: Trust in local healthcare systems’ handling of the pandemic increased during a 28-month time span

Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: Trust increased in healthcare providers’ handling of the pandemic when compared with the government, working-age adults suffer financial setbacks after admission for traumatic injury, and deaths by stimulants have increased.

Deborah Filipek December 2, 2022

CareCredit healthcare credit card provides flexible payment options for both patients and healthcare providers

Read about one company's payment solution that gives patients a way to pay for out-of-pocket healthcare costs while enabling health care organizations to receive payment for services within two business days.

HFMA December 1, 2022

Revenue Cycle Insights newsletter: Medicare outpatient payment bump less than first appears

On the surface, CMS is granting Medicare outpatient care a 3.8% payment increase, but a variety of negative adjustments that will vary by provider are going to cut into the net gain. Senior Editor Nick Hut breaks it all down. Also, Vanderbilt Health is reaping gains from its earlier adoption of automation technology in revenue…

Paul Barr, MS, MBA November 18, 2022

David Johnson: Rewiring healthcare’s smartest professionals (Hint: It’s not physicians)

I won’t keep you in suspense. Healthcare’s smartest professionals are the tens of thousands of individuals who populate its revenue cycle operations. Revenue cycle professionals determine how much payers fork out and how much providers receive for healthcare treatments. They constitute the beating heart of the nation’s transactional healthcare system. Their ingenuity knows no bounds.…

David W. Johnson November 1, 2022

Reeling hospital industry shouldn’t anticipate a turnaround anytime soon

Amid persistent financial and operational turbulence for hospitals, it appears unrealistic to expect significant improvement in the near future.

Nick Hut November 1, 2022

Pandemic brought increases in the number of patients leaving the ED without being seen

Deferred care appeared to become more widespread in the emergency department amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study.

Nick Hut October 21, 2022

Revenue Cycle Operations Research Summary Report

HFMA, with sponsorship by Currance, surveyed 110 healthcare CFOs and revenue cycle, finance and accounting executives to understand how satisfied healthcare providers are with their current revenue cycle operations, and what they find most valuable.

Currance October 19, 2022

No Surprises Act regulations remain a moving target for compliance

Amid all the rules stemming from the No Surprises Act, a looming mandate for providers to send cost estimates to health plans looks like the biggest stress inducer.

Nick Hut October 18, 2022

Healthcare News of Note: The Walmart Healthcare Research Institute could bring more diversity to medical research

Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: Walmart launches a new healthcare research institute, people with more chronic disease are more likely to suffer adverse financial outcomes, and one-third of Black Californians say they have experienced racism by a healthcare provider.

Deborah Filipek October 17, 2022

Healthcare News of Note: The nation could see an alarming nurse shortage by 2025

Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: Even fewer nurses are available to fill jobs as travel nurses leave the profession, most telemedicine visit diagnoses in certain specialties match in-person visit conclusions, and long-COVID-19 may be partially to blame for the U.S. labor shortage.

Deborah Filipek October 12, 2022
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