MACRA implementation has been a major priority for CMS in the past year, but the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently found several challenges that...
From EHR systems to mHealth apps, health IT has the potential to help providers achieve value-based care goals. But with hundreds of new technologies seemingly emerging each day, many providers are...
Revenue cycle management remains relatively elusive in the new healthcare landscape, as new regulations and reforms have led the industry to evolve and left many hospitals scrambling to keep their...
Last month, the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) submitted comments for the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) Financial Benchmarking Draft White Paper. NAACOS takes on the...
How do you best measure happiness? Perhaps with much more than a smile. Advancing the art of patient experience is a delicate task within the healthcare space that is often difficult to fully...
Regarding the future of revenue cycle management and ICD-10 implementation, is it merely too soon to tell what the long-term future of coding, laterality challenges, and documentation snafus holds? If...
Is health information technology (health IT) silently advancing the world of medicine? As the tenth anniversary of National Health Information Technology Week from October...
Although the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made great strides recently by implementing its Veterans Benefits Management Systems (VBMS) across all of the organization’s regional offices,...
Will a projected decline in coding efficiency become reality, perhaps caused by ICD-10’s greater specificity and high code volume? Will ICD-10's implementation kick off...
The evolving connection between healthcare supply chain and revenue cycle management is yet to be explored. As RevCycleIntelligence.com reported, an innovative discipline level within the healthcare...
The meaty 1,024 pages of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) call for the vast expansion of healthcare coverage, the active promotion of decreased healthcare costs, and enhanced quality care. In the midst of...
Last week, RevCycleIntelligence.com presented the top five facts to know now about ICD-10 implementation, as reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Here are five (more)...
Whether you check the time on your smart phone, smart watch, or an only moderately intelligent clock radio, the realm of all things electronically stimulating is indubitably interwoven into the fabric...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule on April 16, 2015 to extend access to enhanced federal financial participation for Medicaid eligibility and enrollment...
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs are failing to prove economically beneficial and impose unreasonable mandates on providers according to members of the Senate Health, Education,...
A new study found that through 2020, the hospital information systems market will increase nearly 59 percent to $17.6B.
In the healthcare landscape, there have been several popular technology trends...
A new study found healthcare IT funding has doubled the number seen in 2013, with mobile devices and RCM pushing trends.
Many healthcare executives are watching industry trends to help determine future...
By adopting remote monitoring and telehealth technology, clinics can improve patient health and organizational finances.
In the healthcare landscape, keeping patients out of the hospital had become just...
A new study examined the CIO role and found a rapidly changing landscape that can cause fatigue among executives.
For healthcare providers, having the right executive team can be a major factor toward...
62 percent of physicians who adopted health IT tools cited financial incentives and penalties as being influential.
A data brief released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
