Revenue Cycle Analytics

Breaking from Traditional Healthcare Budgeting During Modern Times

by Jacqueline LaPointe

No one could have predicted the impact COVID-19 would have on 2020, least of all healthcare executives who approved budgets and spending targets months or even a year prior to the outbreak of the novel...

Providers Want Innovation, Disruption for Revenue Cycle Management

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Technology can’t solve all of healthcare’s problems, but providers agree that it can definitely improve revenue cycle management. In a recent survey conducted by KLAS and the Center for...

How Sharp HealthCare is Winning at Revenue Cycle Management

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The business of healthcare is no game, but a new gamified approach is making revenue cycle management more fun and more efficient at Sharp HealthCare. The San Diego-based health system recently teamed...

Hospital Revenue Cycle IT Budgets to Take a Hit After COVID-19

by Jacqueline LaPointe

More hospitals and health systems are planning to decrease revenue cycle IT budgets over the next 12 months, as leaders manage payer mix and other changes post-pandemic, according to a new...

Healthcare CFOs Looking to Technology to Boost Waning Margins

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Healthcare CFOs do not plan to reduce spending on technology and automation despite a dramatic dip in revenues and margins, according to a recent Black Book survey. For more coronavirus updates, visit...

How University Hospitals Is Resuming Elective Surgeries

by Jacqueline LaPointe

As quickly as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases went up, the volume of joint replacements, spinal fusions, and other elective, non-emergent services dropped, in some cases up to 99 percent since...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Prior authorizations are one of the most burdensome aspects of revenue cycle management. In a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA), 86 percent of doctors described the burden of prior...

CFOs Want To Cut Costs But Don’t Have Data, Resources To Do It

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Reducing costs is the top priority for healthcare CFOs, but about three-quarters of finance leaders say that resource constraints are impacting effective financial planning and analysis at their...

KLAS: 7 Healthcare Revenue Cycle “Unicorns” Disrupting the Market

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Provider organizations have many options when it comes to selecting a healthcare revenue cycle management solution. The market for such technology is rapidly growing, but some vendors are standing out...

Providers Adopting Advanced Revenue Cycle Management Capabilities

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The nation’s most wired provider organizations are investing in revenue cycle management capabilities in order to perform more advanced tasks, like real-time identification and value-based care...

Tracking Key Hospital Revenue Cycle Metrics to Up Profitability

by Jacqueline LaPointe

As the value-based reimbursement transition rolls on, many hospitals have adopted “If you can measure it, you can manage it” as their new motto. But how can providers and executives measure...

Provider Profitability Tops Healthcare Revenue Cycle Concerns

by Jacqueline LaPointe

One of the top healthcare revenue cycle concerns with 40 percent of providers is maintaining profitability while remaining independent, a recent RemitDATA survey revealed. The survey of healthcare...

CMS Brings Integrated, Multi-Payer Claims Data Access to CPC+

by Jacqueline LaPointe

In an official blog post, CMS recently touted its success with improving primary care provider productivity by giving practices in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) program more multi-payer claims...

Flexibility Key to Revenue Cycle Management Vendor Selection

by Jacqueline LaPointe

With thousands of healthcare revenue cycle management and business intelligence analytics vendors in the market, how does a provider organization decide on just one? According to Robert Creaven, CMPE,...

Monitoring Care Delivery Key to Reducing Healthcare Costs

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Lowering actual healthcare costs that providers incur while delivering care to patients is the key to making healthcare more affordable, according to a new Chilmark Research study. While payers are...