Hospital Revenue Cycle Management

Tenet Healthcare Plans to Outsource 1,000+ Positions to Cut Costs

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The country’s largest for-profit hospital system is looking to significantly expand their offshore healthcare workforce in the next year or two. Local news source Dallas News recently reported...

Hospital Merger and Acquisition Deals Got Bigger in 2018

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The average size in revenue of the sellers in hospital merger and acquisition deals grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.8 percent since 2008, reaching $409 million in 2018, consulting...

CMS: We Must Do More Than New Healthcare Price Transparency Rule

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Hospitals may have to publish a list of their standard charges online, but that doesn’t have to be their only step to increase healthcare price transparency, CMS Administrator Seema Verma...

Opioid Overdose Care Totals $1.94B in Annual Hospital Costs

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The opioid crisis is hitting hospital costs, a recent analysis by healthcare improvement company Premier uncovered. Approximately $1.94 billion in annual hospital costs were attributable to patients...

Hospital Mergers Save More When Facilities Are Close Together

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Hospital mergers produce even greater efficiencies and savings when the acquired facilities are in close proximity to each other, a new report shows. The Charles River Associates report prepared for...

VA Hospitals Outperform Private Hospitals in Most Areas

by Jacqueline LaPointe

A new study by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice shows that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals are providing care as good as or better than their peers in the...

DoJ Offers Insight into Anti-Steering, Antitrust Case with Atrium

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The Department of Justice (DoJ) is shedding more light on its recent settlement with North Carolina-based Atrium Health over allegations the health system used its market power to create...

Hospital Revenue Unstable Despite Outpatient Volume Growth

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Hospitals recently saw increases in national inpatient and outpatient volumes. However, net hospital revenue continues to be unstable for non-profit organizations, according to a new analysis from the...

26% of Hospitals Without Effective Revenue Cycle Management System

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Approximately one-quarter of US hospitals (26 percent) do not have an effective healthcare revenue cycle management solution in place, according to a new Black Book survey. Black Book surveyed over...

AGs Approve Large Hospital Mergers, But with Special Conditions

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Attorneys General in California and Massachusetts recently approved two separate hospital merger deals. But the approvals came with a set of special conditions the health systems must meet to...

Hospital Operating Income Falls for Two-Thirds of Health Systems

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Health system operating income is deteriorating as hospital expenses continue to grow, according to a recent Navigant analysis. In the three-year analysis of the financial disclosures for 104...

Healthcare Disruption Spurs Hospitals to Alter Business Operations

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Eighty-five percent of hospital and health system executives believe the industry is at significant risk for healthcare disruption, and their organizations are preparing their business operations for...

Atrium Health Settles Anticompetitive Hospital Contracting Claims

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Atrium Health in North Carolina recently agreed to a settlement with the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the North Carolina Office of Attorney General that prohibits the health system from using...

Partners, Harvard Pilgrim Suspend Healthcare Merger Talks

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Partners HealthCare, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, recently halted healthcare merger talks with local insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care over concerns the deal would not earn...

92% of Providers Concerned About Hospital Price Transparency Rule

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Ninety-two percent of healthcare providers are concerned about the new hospital price transparency requirement recently finalized by CMS, a new poll shows. CMS finalized the hospital price...

Hospital Bankruptcies Are On the Rise, Hitting Rural Areas Hard

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The healthcare industry experience more than 20 hospital bankruptcies since 2016, and about three-quarters of the distressed hospitals operated in rural areas, law firm Polsinelli recently...

Hospital-Acquired Conditions Increase Hospital Costs by $2B

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Pressure ulcers, surgical site infections, and other potentially avoidable hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) led to over $2 billion in excess hospital costs in 2016, a recent research brief...

AHA: Consolidated Payer Market Influences Hospital Contracting

by Jacqueline LaPointe

“The overwhelming majority of hospitals and health systems are not the drivers in contract negotiations with commercial health insurers,” the American Hospital Association (AHA) recently...

Aligning the Healthcare Revenue Cycle with Patient Experience

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Improving a patient’s financial experience is key to healthcare revenue cycle management success, according to the Senior Regional Director of Revenue Cycle at Ascension...

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