Managing Patients Who Are Uninsured-by-Choice
While one in 10 individuals living in the United States do not qualify for health insurance by way of the Affordable Care Act, there is a large number of...
Patient Experience
CMS Mum on ICD-10 Postponement
Even though President Barack Obama signed into law postponement of ICD-10 implementation to Oct. 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has yet to take official action....
Healthcare Spending Jumps, Can Providers Expect a Boom?
Patient spending and consumption of healthcare services and medicines increased in 2013, according to a new study. The IMS Institute of Healthcare Informatics published its annual survey of healthcare consumption...
RACs Rake in More than $2 Billion from Healthcare Providers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its annual appraisal of Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), and as will come to no surprise to any healthcare provider, the four...
The Future of Bad Debt: The American Worker with Employer Health Insurance
American workers with access to health insurance from their employers were among the lowest financial risks to healthcare providers. No more, according to trends identified in two recent reports. Zywave,...
How to Use Patient Response to Jumpstart RCM Transformation
Derek Stein,RevSpring The financial realities of today’s healthcare industry are exposing the inherent workflow gaps and revenue leakage within traditional RCM processes. But as providers review more integrated revenue cycle...
It's the Law: President Signs Quick Fix to SGR
President Barack Obama signed into law the quickie bill that reversed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) cut of 24 percent to Medicare reimbursements to the nation’s physicians. The bill also...
Demystifying "Big Data" and Making It Work for Patient Account Managers
April Wilson, RevSpring There is a lot of talk right now about how hospitals could and should be using “big data” to improve both clinical outcomes and the overall patient...
Feds Delay Everything--Why Not ICD-10?
Over the past several weeks the federal government has postponed or delayed almost every major healthcare initiative save one–ICD-10. Most, if not all, of those suspensions or interruptions have hurt...
Growing Bad Debt is Not the Disease, but the Symptom--Part 2
If growing bad debt is an alarming challenge for your organization, the root cause exists somewhere upstream in your business processes. Addressing growing bad debt requires a wholistic approach, not...