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3 Trends from the Revenue Cycle Management Virtual Summit

September 29, 2022 - Patient financial experience, denial prevention, and remote work are major challenges for healthcare organizations, according to healthcare leaders at this year’s Revenue Cycle Management Virtual Summit. The Summit took place on Sept. 20th and 21st, drawing together C-suite executives, revenue cycle directors, and other leaders from healthcare organizations to discuss the biggest...

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by Jacqueline LaPointe

Healthcare has a spending problem. For all the investments made in healthcare—$4.1 trillion to be exact—outcomes are not where they should be. In fact, the US has the lowest life expectancy compared to other high-income...

Remote Patient Monitoring, Telehealth Support Value-Based Contracts

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The COVID-19 pandemic has blown the doors wide open on telehealth, especially with new reimbursement parity policies. But value-based contracts can support the growing interest in remote patient...

Top Challenges, Opportunities of Medical Coding and Billing

by Jacqueline LaPointe

By April of last year, seemingly every news station in American was featuring the heroic efforts of physicians, nurses, and other clinicians fighting COVID-19. These providers transformed healthcare, implementing telehealth and virtual...

Payers, Providers Need Data to Talk Value-Based Care

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The definition of value is evolving, and so are the capabilities needed to support the transition to value-based care, industry experts recently shared at Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s...

Coronavirus May Reshape Investment, Value-Based Reimbursement

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Investment strategies and value-based reimbursement models will change as organizations continue to combat the coronavirus and move towards the future, according to insights from the Value-Based Care...

Data, Clinical Champions Key to Risk-Based Payment Model Success

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Healthcare spending is unsustainable and risk-based payment models are one of the ways to address that problem. Neither of these concepts are new to the healthcare community and have been around for...

Are Hospital Price Transparency Rules a Solution for Consumerism?

by Jacqueline LaPointe

In the face of rising deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs, CMS implemented and proposed several hospital price transparency rules meant to empower consumers to shop around for high-value...

Partners, Patients Key to Achieving Value-Based Care Results

by Jacqueline LaPointe

For over a decade, the healthcare industry has been shifting provider reimbursement from a fee-for-service system to one based on the value of services provided to patients, and new payment models have...

Hospitals Seek Value-Based Contracting in Healthcare Supply Chain

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Nearly three-quarters of hospital and health system leaders are interested in value-based contracting in the healthcare supply chain, but opportunities to secure contracts with suppliers are lacking, a...

Looking Beyond Price in the Healthcare Supply Chain to Add Value

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Don’t equate value in the healthcare supply chain with just price, Premier, Inc’s Myla Maloney recently advised healthcare stakeholders at Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s Value-Based...

Putting Both Feet in the Value-Based Care, Reimbursement Boat

by Jacqueline LaPointe

“Do not put each foot in a different boat,” warned Partners HealthCare CFO Peter Markell at Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s third annual Value-Based Care Summit in Boston. But the...

Collaboration Key to Independent Physicians in Value-Based Care

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

At first glance, value-based care models appear to work against independent physicians. The risk-based arrangement requires a coordination of services across care continuum — primarily between...

Value-Based Contracts Rely on Patient Attribution, Data Sharing

by Jacqueline LaPointe

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...

Addressing Quadruple Aim, Physician Burnout Key to Risk Success

by Jacqueline LaPointe

From capturing patient risk to meeting quality measures, providers face a daunting list of items needed to achieve the Triple Aim of value-based care. But healthcare organizations will not see lasting...

Importance of Post-Acute Alignment, Integration to Value-Based Care

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

To achieve the ultimate goals of value-based care, healthcare organizations will need to assume greater responsibility over the patient’s experience across multiple care settings based on the...

Payer Collaboration Key to Value-Based Reimbursement Strategy

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Value-based reimbursement arrangements come in a myriad of shapes and sizes much like provider organizations. But successful value-based contracts will align provider and payer goals for care quality...

Implementing Value-Based Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

by Jacqueline LaPointe

To align healthcare revenue cycle with value-based reimbursement, healthcare organizations should start by breaking down clinical and financial siloes established by fee-for-service payment models,...

Exploring Quality Measures Under Value-Based Purchasing Models

by Jacqueline LaPointe

CHICAGO – Jason Goldwater, MPA, MA, Senior Director of the National Quality Forum, recently likened the value-based purchasing transition to the evolution of music at Xtelligent Media’s...

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