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...
With the rise in popularity of high deductible health plans, hospitals are no longer waiting on just payers to collect what is owed to their hospital or practice. Patients have become a major revenue...
From alternative payment models and value-based purchasing to artificial intelligence and data analytics tools, the healthcare industry is transforming how care is delivered and paid for to reduce...
Requiring hospitals to post a list of their standard charges online is just the beginning of the push for increased healthcare price transparency by CMS, explained the federal agency’s...
If it takes a village to raise a child, then it may take an entire city to operate a health system. From executives and clinicians to IT managers and front desk staff, healthcare workforce management...
From EHR systems and revenue cycle management tools to data analytics and online patient payment options, hospitals and health systems are on the journey to automating all aspects of the healthcare...
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...
Professional and facility coding describe two very different aspects of a healthcare. But breaking down the wall between the departments has the potential to boost coding productivity and improve clean...
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...
Giving providers a holistic view of the patient resulted in accountable care organization (ACO) success for a risk-based organization in southern Florida, which earned a place on the list of ACOs...
The healthcare industry has boarded the train to value-based reimbursement. But recent roadblocks have provider organizations pumping the brakes with the shift away from fee-for-service, explained...
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...
Dedicating even a couple hours to helping patients understand and prepare for a procedure prior to surgery can save providers millions under bundled payment models, explained healthcare industry expert...
Value-based reimbursement success hinges on decreasing low-value care across patient populations, explained Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at...
Providing a unified medical billing experience was key to improving patient collections by 24 percent in one year at the largest independent multi-specialty physician group in Abilene, Texas.
Abilene...
End-stage renal disease comes with a hefty price tag for both patients and providers. But Park Nicollet Health Services, an integrated care system in Minnesota, found that a team-based care approach to...
For the thousands of patients released from their 23 acute care hospitals a year, Mercy Health ensures that each patient receives the highest value care. But there is only so much providers can do...
Even with 40,000 physicians, nurses, and other employees, St. Louis-based Mercy still relied on staffing agencies and employee incentives to fill critical nursing schedule gaps until a predictive...
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...
