Revenue Cycle Management

Hospital, Outpatient Visits Fell Up to 60% During COVID-19 Crisis

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Stay-at-home orders and other COVID-19 precautions have had a negative impact on both inpatient and outpatient visits, according to new research. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Prior authorizations are one of the most burdensome aspects of revenue cycle management. In a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA), 86 percent of doctors described the burden of prior...

80% of CFOs Expect Revenue, Profit Declines Due to COVID-19

by Jacqueline LaPointe

CFOs of healthcare organizations and other major companies are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the impact COVID-19 will have on their bottom lines, according to a new survey from...

How COVID-19 Is Impacting the Healthcare Revenue Cycle

by Jacqueline LaPointe

As entire nations encourage their populations to stay inside to avoid COVID-19, healthcare providers are more active than ever in response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. This activity is...

Hospitals Closed 2019 with An Uptick in Volume, Patient Revenue

by Samantha McGrail

Hospitals nationwide ended 2019 with an increase in hospital profitability, with increases in both net patient revenue and service volumes, according to a recent Kaufman Hall report. According to...

CFOs Want To Cut Costs But Don’t Have Data, Resources To Do It

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Reducing costs is the top priority for healthcare CFOs, but about three-quarters of finance leaders say that resource constraints are impacting effective financial planning and analysis at their...

Providers Highly Value Revenue Integrity, Underpayment Firms

by Samantha McGrail

Revenue integrity and underpayment firms are helping organizations recoup lost revenue and prevent future losses, bringing value to provider organizations, KLAS recently reported.  In a new...

Providers to Focus on Patient Billing, Policy Heading into 2020

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Patient billing, policy and regulation, healthcare mergers and acquisitions, and workforce diversity will be some of the top priorities for provider organizations in 2020, predicted researchers at...

Tenet Sells 2 TN Hospitals in Latest Healthcare Acquisition Deal

by Samantha McGrail

Tenet Healthcare announced another healthcare acquisition deal this year, which will lead to the Dallas-based company’s divesture of hospitals and other operations in the Memphis area for $350...

KLAS: 7 Healthcare Revenue Cycle “Unicorns” Disrupting the Market

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Provider organizations have many options when it comes to selecting a healthcare revenue cycle management solution. The market for such technology is rapidly growing, but some vendors are standing out...

Additional Providers Increase Hospital Length of Stay

by Samantha McGrail

Additional providers caring for patients significantly increase in both cost of care and hospital length of stay, a recent IllumiCare report found. The report emailed to RevCycleIntelligence.com...

Providers Adopting Advanced Revenue Cycle Management Capabilities

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The nation’s most wired provider organizations are investing in revenue cycle management capabilities in order to perform more advanced tasks, like real-time identification and value-based care...

Healthcare Venture Capital Driving Mergers and Acquisitions

by Samantha McGrail

Healthcare venture capital investments continue to drive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the industry despite a shortage of common ground between CEOs and investors, a new survey...