Revenue Cycle Management Healthcare News

MGMA: Sustainable Financing Needed to Protect Rural Healthcare

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Physician and facility reimbursement for rural practices is not sustainable and is impacting patient access to rural healthcare, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) tells Congress in a new...

New Physicians See Plenty of Job Offers but Burnout Impacts Choices

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More than half of new physicians receive over 100 job offers during their training, but many would not choose the healthcare field again, a survey from AMN Healthcare found. The 2023 Survey of...

Physician Scheduling Vendors Promise Automation, But Issues Arise

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Automated solutions promise to simplify physician scheduling, but healthcare organizations are experiencing hiccups with achieving efficiency. Providers in the new KLAS report, “Physician...

75K Kaiser Workers Walk Off in Healthcare’s Largest Strike

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More than 75,000 unionized workers of Kaiser Permanente launched a strike today, marking the largest strike of healthcare workers in US history. The workers represented by a coalition of eight unions...

Hospitals See Financial Relief as Revenues Increase, Margins Stabilize

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Hospitals are seeing some financial relief as revenue increases offset rising expenses and operating margins stabilize, a Kaufman Hall report revealed. The latest edition of Kaufman Hall’s...

Workforce Woes Surpass Financial Pressure As Healthcare’s Top Threat

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Clinician burnout, staffing challenges, and nursing shortages are the top organizational threats over the next year, according to most healthcare leaders. CIOs, IT leaders, and clinicians responding...

Hospital Finances Stabilize After 6 Months of Positive Margins

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Hospital finances seem to be stabilizing after years of historic losses and uncertainty. Median hospital operating margins increased to 1.4 percent in August, according to the latest hospital...

As Hospitals Consolidate, Medicaid Patients Have Fewer Options

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Access to care for Medicaid patients declines as hospital markets become more concentrated following mergers and acquisitions, a new research brief from the National Institute for Health Care...

62% of Hospitals Don’t Automate Any Part of Denials Management

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Most hospitals and health systems are not automating any component of denials management, according to a recent survey of healthcare finance and revenue cycle leaders. Commissioned by technology...

Healthcare CFOs Concerned About Economy, Regulations

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The volatile economic environment is keeping healthcare CFOs up at night, suggests a new survey from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. The survey of more than 60 finance leaders of US health...

Claims Reimbursement Speed, Denial Rate Tied to Location

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Does your practice experience claims reimbursement delays? That may be because of where your practice operates, according to a recent analysis of financial transaction data. The new Crowe report,...

Firm Selection, Rollout Key Considerations of Revenue Cycle Outsourcing

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Firm selection, contracting, and rollout are among the top considerations shared by providers who recently outsourced revenue cycle management, according to a recent KLAS report. The KLAS report,...

Claim Denials Pose Expensive Problem for Providers

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Claim denials are posing a serious and expensive problem for healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM), according to a recent survey of healthcare leaders. A survey conducted by Plutus Health...

Only 19% of Nursing Homes Currently Meet Proposed Staffing Standards

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Less than 20 percent of nursing homes currently meet the proposed staffing standards for long-term care facilities, a KFF brief revealed. In September, CMS released a proposed rule with three main...

Hospital Prices Online Are Not Aligned With Prices Offered via Telephone

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Hospital prices posted online for vaginal childbirth and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) did not match the prices offered to a secret shopper via telephone, indicating poor price...

Oracle Adds Healthcare Capabilities to ERP, Supply Chain Products

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Oracle, the company that bought Cerner for over $28 billion last year, recently announced new healthcare-specific capabilities to three of its products aimed at financial and supply chain...

Dana-Farber, Beth Israel Team Up To Create a Cancer Hospital

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Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Dana-Farber) is cutting ties with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to build a freestanding cancer hospital with another Boston healthcare leader. The specialty provider...

Healthcare Services Cost More at Hospital Outpatient Departments

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Costs for common medical procedures were up to 58 percent higher when they were performed in a hospital outpatient department compared to a doctor’s office, an analysis from the Blue Cross Blue...

Healthcare Orgs Address Price Transparency, 340B Policies in OPPS

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Hospital and specialty groups are urging CMS to amend aspects of the CY 2024 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule, including 340B Drug Pricing Program policies and price...