ICD-10

3 Key Steps to Continue ICD-10 Implementation Progress

by Vera Gruessner

Now that the ICD-10 implementation has been deemed a relative success throughout the healthcare industry, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are focused on continuing the progress...

ICD-10 Claim Denial Rate Remains Low among Most Providers

by Vera Gruessner

It seems that the ICD-10 implementation has not had a very negative effect on the ICD-10 claim denial rate, which hasn’t risen much since the October 1 deadline. For example, RelayHealth Financial,...

CMS Releases Post-ICD-10 Claims Denial Reimbursement Metrics

by Jacqueline DiChiara

Post-ICD-10 implementation claims denial is a top 2016 focus for healthcare organizations. According to last month’s ICD-10 survey from Porter Research and Navicure, healthcare organizations cite...

Revenue Cycle Management Success is About the Fundamentals

by Jacqueline DiChiara

Revenue cycle management success is the heart of any healthcare organization. Defined as the clinical and administrative management of claims management, payment, and revenue production, revenue...

Education Investment Strengthens Revenue Cycle Management

by Jacqueline DiChiara

The secret to revenue cycle management success may lie in education. Healthcare executives are beginning to understand the monetary value of education and its effect on revenue cycle. But staff...

What Are the Greatest Revenue Cycle Management Challenges?

by Jacqueline DiChiara

RevCycleIntelligence.com recently polled over 60 readers to assess revenue cycle management challenges and opportunities, from the front-end, to the back-end, and everything in between. Readers said...

4 HIMSS16 Revenue Cycle Management, Value-Based Care Focuses

by Jacqueline DiChiara

The topics of revenue cycle management innovation and value-based care will be of key importance at HIMSS16, one of the largest healthcare information technology (IT) conferences of the year, held next...

Revenue Cycle Management a Post-ICD-10 Implementation Focus

by Jacqueline DiChiara

Healthcare organizations are focused on strengthening revenue cycle management processes in a post-ICD-10 environment, according to Porter Research and Navicure’s national ICD-10-centered...

AMA, CMS Lead Discussion on Evolving Healthcare Market Today

by Jacqueline DiChiara

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are pairing up to lead a discussion today about the ongoing state of the evolving healthcare market. The...

A Very Happy New Year from RevCycleIntelligence.com!

by Jacqueline DiChiara

2015 was The Year of ICD-10. News of grace period delays, deadline extensions, claims management woes, and discussions about a proposed freeze topped our most popular articles of the...

3 Hard Reimbursement Questions Physicians Are Afraid to Ask

by Jacqueline DiChiara

Physicians sought answers to many pressing reimbursement questions this year. 2015 saw heightened anticipation of reimbursement delay and claims denials once ICD-10 kicked into gear, ongoing discussion...

10 Standout Revenue Cycle Management Quotes of 2015

by Jacqueline DiChiara

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...

How Business Intelligence, CDI Focus Sharpens Revenue Cycle

by Jacqueline DiChiara

Celebrating success is generally much more fun than learning from failure. But the latter is sometimes more necessary. Eighty percent of nearly 300 healthcare providers surveyed last month said...

ICD-10 Grace Period News Leads 2015’s Top 5 Stories

by Jacqueline DiChiara

With December already halfway over and talk of holiday celebrations and New Year’s resolutions well underway, here is RevCycleIntelligence.com’s year-end top stories list. The International...

ICD-10 News the Landslide Leader in 2015’s Top 10 Stories

by Jacqueline DiChiara

Just as driving a car with your eyes permanently glued to the rearview mirror is not necessarily the most intelligent decision, catching a glimpse every now and then of your current whereabouts is...

5 Claims Reimbursement Questions and Answers

by Jacqueline DiChiara

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...

5 Claims Denials Management Conversations From 2015

by Jacqueline DiChiara

This year, the healthcare industry lived in denial. Claims denial, that is. Claims denials management dialogues were extensive and recurring among healthcare providers across the industry...

Is It Too Soon to Gauge ICD-10’s Long-Term Coding Future?

by Jacqueline DiChiara

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...

Why ICD-10 Denial is an Easy Electronic Health Record Fix

by Jacqueline DiChiara

Did Electronic Health Records (EHRs) save the healthcare industry from massive post-ICD-10 implementation claims denial? The healthcare industry will not have a confident grasp about tangible payment...

How Physician Shortages Are Transforming Healthcare’s Future

by Jacqueline DiChiara

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...