Tag: Patient financial responsibility

Reimbursement Loss

Strategies to Mitigate Shrinking Reimbursement in Emergency Medicine

Emergency departments are under intense pressure to do more with less, and drilling down into clinical and operational data can provide opportunities to offset decreasing revenues Many emergency providers are starting to find themselves caught within a perfect storm, with pressure from reduced reimbursements building steadily across all payer types. Medicare payments for emergency care have effectively […]
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Providers to Focus on Patient Billing, Policy Heading into 2020

In addition to patient billing and policy, healthcare M&A and workforce diversity will also be major trends going into the new year, according to PwC’s Health Research Institute. Patient billing, policy and regulation, healthcare mergers and acquisitions, and workforce diversity will be some of the top priorities for provider organizations in 2020, predicted researchers at PwC’s Health […]
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Revenue Cycle Modernization

5 Ways To Modernize The Revenue Cycle

The healthcare revenue cycle has become even more complex in recent years for several reasons, including increased patient financial responsibility, more complicated payer contracts and greater regulatory demands. As a result, providers across the nation have been forced to change their approaches to revenue cycle modernization. Despite attempts to modernize the revenue cycle to meet […]
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Hospital Revenue Cycle Management

Hospitals Looking Beyond EHR to Improve Revenue Cycle Performance

Over 60 percent of hospitals and health systems are not realizing optimal value from their EHR system, causing the organizations to collaborate with other vendors and outsourcing companies to improve revenue cycle performance. That was a finding from a new Navigant analysis based on an executive survey conducted by Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), which polled 108 […]
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