Money woes stemming from expensive Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange policies may be hindering communication efforts between physicians and patients.
Costly deductibles and copays mean patients may be...
2016 may be an especially good year for healthcare providers when it comes to matters of revenue cycle management.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently posted a 63-page...
Actions speak louder than words. But sometimes, the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
Here are 10 selected quotes (presented in no particular order), exclusive to...
It is an exciting time for healthcare, says the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Notable transparency developments are underway, wrote Niall Brennan, CMS Chief Data...
Although the Cadillac Tax is not related to fast and furious cars, it is associated with widespread limitations on workplace health insurance.
The United States Senate voted 90-10 earlier this...
Money talks and the healthcare industry is listening. Claims reimbursement was one of many weighty revenue cycle management topics the healthcare industry kept an ear out for this year. From the art of...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has come a long way over the past 12 months. It is intended, as the name implies, to make health insurance more affordable and make sure more patients greater levels of...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aims to increase the number of people with health insurance by expanding Medicaid coverage nationwide. Are targets being hit or merely glossed over?
Medicare Part D...
There is power in numbers, especially when it comes to healthcare reform.
A group of 9 major patient advocacy groups – AIDS United, American Liver Foundation, Amputee Coalition, the Christopher...
The United States Senate voted 52-47 last night in support of the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act (H.R. 3762.) This bill, which repeals segments of the Affordable...
Consumers are apparently receiving major bang for their buck, although not in relation to this week’s hard-to-miss Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday sales brouhaha.
Healthcare consumers have...
Does a holistic or more selective approach to revenue cycle management make or break a healthcare organization?
Lynn Giddens-Branscum, Revenue Cycle Director at Wise Health System, chatted with...
Just as Rome was not built in a day, neither is a doctor. Training a physician can take up to a decade; the Colosseum was perhaps ironically built in less time.
With predictions of massive physician...
Per capita health spending has dropped by over $40 billion from 2009 to 2014, confirm researchers David U. Himmelstein, MD, Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Professor at the City University of New...
Misunderstandings swirl as the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) ever evolving ability to reduce the number of uninsured adults is continuously called into question.
The total number of adults who have...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) generated over $411 million in net program savings last year, according to financial and quality performance results from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Repeal of the Cadillac Tax – a tax on high-cost healthcare insurance plans some private companies offer to employees – is up for debate once more, especially among recent...
ICD-10 implementation is one month old. How are independent physician practices faring?
To help provide a snapshot of sorts regarding an answer to this question, RevCycleIntelligence.com recently...
Healthcare spending for the privately insured has steadily increased over the last 5 years, confirms today’s fifth annual healthcare spending report from the Health Care Cost Institute...
The ever familiar “Show me the money!” mentality only rings true in the case of quality over quantity regarding hospital payments, implies the Centers for Medicare &...
