Federal and state governments are ramping up efforts to increase hospital price transparency as consumers become more responsible for their healthcare costs under high-deductible health...
Tennessee-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) may have reported increased revenue in the first nine months of the 2018 fiscal year, but the medical center finished with lower operating...
The tides are starting to turn when it comes to EHR satisfaction among registered nurses. Only 69 percent of the providers now feel the EHR system is disruptive to the nursing workflow compared to 84...
Almost 69 percent of healthcare organizations use more than one vendor solution for revenue cycle management. However, these organizations tended to have more problems with claim denials management, a...
Hospital prices for the privately insured depend on where a facility is located and how consolidated its market is, a recent Health Care Pricing Project analysis revealed.
Using insurance claims from...
Approximately 80 percent of hospitals leaders in a new Black Book survey said they were vetting or considering outsourcing full revenue cycle management by 2019.
The demand for revenue cycle...
With claims reimbursement rates falling and competition among healthcare organizations intensifying, hospitals are calling on their providers to increase efficiency and reduce healthcare costs for each...
Hospitals costs fell by an average of $3,237 per patient when providers added prompt palliative care to routine treatments during the course of a hospital stay, reported researchers from the Icahn...
The growth rate for healthcare prices increased 2.2 percent in March 2018 compared to the previous year, representing the greatest annual growth rate since January 2012, revealed the most recent Health...
An elderly patient presses the nurse call button to get assistance with standing up and using the toilet, while another patient in the next room presses the button to get help with changing the TV...
Moving from traditional block scheduling for the operating room (OR) to more of a service-based system that used machine learning maximized OR efficiency and increased revenue by $10 million across...
A new Cardinal Health survey revealed hospital supply chain shortages are impacting patient care, particularly in the operating room (OR).
The survey of over 300 frontline clinicians, operating room...
Healthcare costs for an acute care episode were 52 percent lower when acutely ill patients received hospital care at home, rather than being placed in a hospital bed, according to a recent study in the...
Hospital and health system executives are missing an opportunity to maximize revenue cycle and operational success by viewing the hospital laboratory as a cost, rather than profit, center, explained...
Utilization management in healthcare is commonly thought of as a strategy that payers employ to control resource use within physician offices and hospitals to keep healthcare costs down. However, hospital utilization management programs...
Federal and state authorities recently gave the proposed hospital merger between Illinois-based Advocate Health Care and Wisconsin-area Aurora Health Care the greenlight, the health systems announced...
Medical prices for hospital evaluation and management (E&M) services rose 28 percent and allowed amounts increased 26 percent between May 2012 and 2017, the most recent FH Medical Price Index from...
Skilled nursing facility (SNF) utilization has declined 15 percent from 2009 to 2016, a new Avalere analysis revealed.
The analysis of Medicare fee-for-service claims revealed that SNF utilization...
North Carolina-based UNC Health Care and Atrium Health recently announced that they will no longer pursue a hospital merger deal that would create one of the largest health systems in the...
Hospitals and health systems are under immense pressure to improve efficiency and reduce their healthcare costs as payers decrease claims reimbursement rates and hospital consolidation continues to...
