Maryland-based Bon Secours Health System recently announced its intent to engage in a hospital merger deal with Mercy Health in Ohio and Kentucky.
The Catholic health systems are currently engaged in...
Offering interactive patient education pre- and post-total joint replacement surgery is key to improving patient outcomes and generating new revenue, a multi-specialty hospital system in the Twin...
Massachusetts public health officials recently approved a proposed hospital merger between the state’s largest hospital system, Partners HealthCare, and specialty hospital Massachusetts Eye and...
Healthcare finance professionals can bet on discussing compliance, innovative health IT systems, and patient financial responsibility at the 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS18) in Las...
Financial challenges continued to keep community hospital CEOs up at night in 2017, according to a recent American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) survey.
Once again, hospital leaders...
Epic and MEDITECH were just a few of the vendors that earned top marks in the 2018 Best in KLAS Software and Services report for healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) and finance solutions.
Unlike...
Health policies should provide rural hospitals with the flexibility to develop healthcare services that meet community needs and the value-based payment and funding structures to support tailored...
Intermountain Healthcare, Ascension, SSM Health, and Trinity Health recently announced that they will create a non-profit generic drug company to reduce prescription costs and alleviate critical drug...
Hospitals in Medicaid expansion states were six times, or about 84 percent, less likely to face hospital closures than their peers in non-expansion states, a new Health Affairs study showed.
The...
Providers understand that high hospital readmission rates spell trouble for patient outcomes. But excessive rates may also threaten a hospital's financial health, especially in a value-based...
In 2017, the healthcare industry saw a boom of hospital merger announcements. And many of those deals are set to close in 2018 pending federal and state regulatory review.
Hospital merger and...
“There is always room for improvement” should be healthcare revenue cycle management’s mantra. Declining claims reimbursement rates, the shift to value-based purchasing, and evolving...
Cardiac procedures and sepsis dominated the list of top ten intensive care unit (ICU) diagnoses that represented the greatest opportunity for hospitals to reduce healthcare costs and care variations...
The healthcare market in Chicago is bracing for some major changes starting with the recently announced hospital merger between Advocate Health Care and Wisconsin-based Aurora Health Care.
The largest...
Emergency department spending per member rose 85 percent between 2009 and 2015 primarily because of hospitals coding and billing for a greater number of high severity cases, new Health Care Cost...
Small differences in private payer performance on claims reimbursement and denials can challenge hospital revenue cycles, a new Crowe Horwath analysis of five major commercial managed care payers...
CMS aims to tie 90 percent of Medicare fee-for-service payments to quality by the end of 2018, with one-half of those payments to be paid under a value-based contract with some degree of financial...
Hospitals strengthened key revenue cycle components over the past two years, but claims denials represented a major threat to their financial health, the recent Revenue Cycle Survey from Advisory Board...
Despite serving as a critical healthcare safety net for millions of patients, many rural hospitals are constantly on the brink of closing their doors due to a number of revenue cycle management challenges.
Eighty-two rural hospitals...
Medicare pay-for-performance models may disproportionately penalize safety-net hospitals and other organizations that serve the most vulnerable patient populations, a new study in Medical Care...
