A Very Happy New Year from RevCycleIntelligence.com!
To close out the year, here are our top 10 revenue cycle management stories for December.
By - 2015 was The Year of ICD-10. News of grace period delays, deadline extensions, claims management woes, and discussions about a proposed freeze topped our most popular articles of the year.
“The long-awaited U.S. transition to ICD-10 on October 1st is a historic moment for U.S. healthcare and a major milestone in the evolving transformation of our 21st century healthcare delivery system,” said the Coalition for ICD-10 in an October 1 statement.
“As a result of the replacement of the obsolete ICD-9-CM with the more modern ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS code sets, patients can look forward to complete, accurate, up-to-date diagnostic and procedural data necessary to achieve significant advances in the quality of care and more efficient healthcare administrative processes."
2016 healthcare predictions will shape the industry's future moving forward. Hospital executives, physicians, healthcare providers, and many others will likely find themselves asking and answering many difficult and heavy questions, including:
- How will the upcoming presidential elections shape the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
- What is the new future of all things population health? Medicare and Medicaid? The Internet of Things?
- How will new developments and announcements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services influence the greater industry?
- What does the shifting landscape of payment model challenges and opportunities look like moving forward?
- What is the new future of accountable care organizations (ACOs)?
- As the transition from volume to value continues, are providers ready?
- Is it too soon to celebrate the alleged success of ICD-10?
A revenue cycle countdown to the New Year
Before we countdown later tonight to the New Year, let's countdown now with a top 10 list of December's most popular revenue cycle management stories.
10. Hospitals Facing More Payment Claims Audits, Costly Denials
9. Why Patient Advocacy is the New Future of Healthcare Reform
8. CMS Confirms More Affordable 2016 Medicare Part B Premiums
7. Physicians Report 4 Factors of Value-Based Payment Success
6. Top 7 New Strategies for Revenue Cycle Management Excellence
5. How a Cultural Transformation Can Advance Patient Safety
4. 5 Ways to Measure Patient Experience and Patient Happiness
3. CMS Approves Outpatient Ambulatory Patient Experience Survey
2. Top 6 Accountable Care Organization Questions Explained
1. Top 6 Trending Payment Models Demanding New Long-Term Focus
Editor's note: The editorial staff at Xtelligent Media will be taking a well deserved writing break for the rest of the week and will return to publishing top HealthIT content on Monday, January 4. I wish you, your healthcare colleagues and friends, and your loved ones a very happy and blessed 2016. Thank you for a great year of interviews, insights, and inspirations. Cheers!
