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2023 Post-Acute Trends: Five Strategies To Improve Hospital Outcomes

2023 Post-Acute Trends: Five Strategies To Improve Hospital Outcomes

Learn the top trends in rehabilitation for 2023 and hear from Rehabilitation and Behavioral Health President on how these trends are expected to impact hospitals. COMBATING THE ONGOING WORKFORCE CRISIS Recruiting and retaining clinical talent remains a top priority, according to a recent healthcare executive survey. Three key factors fueling this ongoing shortage include: – […]
How AI Rules Electronic Health Records and its Benefits?

How AI Rules Electronic Health Records and its Benefits?

The key benefits of AI in Electronic health records are improving productivity, providing better-personalized care, and facilitating support for decision-making. Medical imaging advances and the proliferation of clinical diagnostics and screenings generate large amounts of health data. In large, integrated healthcare delivery systems, EHRs are often regarded as inflexible, difficult to use, and expensive to […]
Outsourcing To Optimize Your Revenue Cycle Management

Outsourcing To Optimize Your Revenue Cycle Management

The number one priority of management, executive, and ownership level business is learning when and how to delegate responsibility. When it comes to revenue cycle management, the evolving healthcare industry almost requires that medical professionals take full account of their administrative capacity. Although keeping this aspect of business in the house may seem like a […]
When Radiology Meets AI: What ChatGPT Can Learn and Contribute

When Radiology Meets AI: What ChatGPT Can Learn and Contribute

hatGPT, a powerful AI language model trained on vast amounts of internet data and human feedback, is making its way into healthcare. It has already passed the US Medical Licensing Examination, co-authored a peer-reviewed medical article, and even drafted a prior authorization request for an echocardiogram. However, is it ready for real-world healthcare decision-making? As […]
Using Modifier – 25 on an E_M Visit

Using Modifier – 25 on an E/M Visit

In recent years, there has been an increase in scrutiny regarding the use of modifier -25 to identify separate evaluation and management (E/M) services on the same day as another procedure. Insurers are now demanding documentation of such services both before and after payment, leading to a significant administrative burden for urology practices. The reason […]
The 3 Policies Controlling Physician Reimbursements

The 3 Policies Controlling Physician Reimbursements

Three big CMS moves have affected physician reimbursements in the last 10 years, according to VMG Health’s 2023 mergers and acquisitions report released on March 21: Here are the three CMS policies: In April 2015, the Senate passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, which permanently removed the sustainable growth rate formula under the […]
The State of Claims and Denials in 2023

The State of Claims and Denials in 2023

How do you resolve a repeated and shooting up problem like claims denials? It’s been a fresher subject for revenue cycle management professionals for years that are only experiencing hotter with the growing pressures of staffing shortages, troubles with staff movement and instructing and developing policies and protocols at the government and payer levels. On […]