The lack of healthcare competition stemming from recent healthcare merger and acquisition trends resulted in higher prices and lower care quality, industry experts recently argued in a Carnegie Mellon...
Three senators recently introduced a rural healthcare bill that would extend the Conrad State 30 Program until 2021 to help alleviate the physician shortage in designated Health Professions Shortage...
According to a recent Medscape survey, physician compensation for specialists was 45.6 percent more than what primary care providers earned in the past year.
The survey of over 19,200 physicians in 27...
A new study in JAMA Surgery found that providers with fee-for-service compensation performed more carotid stenosis interventions on symptomatic and asymptomatic patients compared to providers...
ORLANDO - CMS recently selected 11 healthcare organizations to receive a total of $100 million in funding to help small and rural eligible clinicians participate in the newly-launched MACRA.
Each...
URAC, a non-profit healthcare accreditation company, recently called on CMS to implement virtual group standards under the Quality Payment Program in 2018 that promote economies of scale for more...
Value-based penalties in the Medicare Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program are disproportionately affected by a participating hospital’s bed size and number of cases, a recent American...
About 86 percent of primary care physicians and specialists reported that their provider compensation was still primarily under fee-for-service or salary arrangements, representing a modest increase from...
As payers push for more value-based reimbursement adoption, many healthcare organizations are wondering how to restructure physician productivity strategies to meet the unique requirements of...
Black Book Market researchers ranked Cerner Business Office Services as the top rated end-to-end physician revenue cycle management outsourcing vendor. Cerner earned high marks on eighteen key...
Physician assistants saw a 3.4 percent increase in median provider compensation between 2014 and 2015, according to a report from the American Academy of PAs (AAPA).
Comprising feedback from...
More healthcare providers are moving to larger group practices in order to gain access to more resources to effectively implement value-based care and risk-based reimbursement models, according to a...
Proposed patient relationship codes that will be used under MACRA to measure appropriate resource use and determine value-based reimbursement adjustments may cause more confusion for providers and...
While a final rule on MACRA implementation has yet to be issued, some providers are growing concerned that the value-based care models in the legislation could significantly burden small physician...
Days in A/R and cost to collect have always been challenging metrics for healthcare organizations to manage; however, today’s payment environment brings additional difficulties.
The average annual...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has established a community care call center to assist veterans and healthcare providers who are experiencing issues with debt collection because of incorrect or...
Alternative payment models like the accountable care organization (ACO) and the bundled payment model have been gaining popularity under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) mandates.
Figuring...
Revenue cycle management is the progression of events between when a patient makes a doctor’s appointment and when a patient’s money is received and reimbursed for following care...
Revenue cycle management is about breaking through the cash flow ceiling and generating the greatest amount of net revenue possible. But issues of claims denials, coding compliance, where to...
Ambulatory revenue cycle management is driven by a variety of factors, such as the market growth of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the meaningful use program, and technological trends.
Operating as...
