Tag: Revenue Cycle Management

5 Steps To Revenue Cycle Succession Planning Success

5 Steps To Revenue Cycle Succession Planning Success

It’s more important than ever for revenue cycle leaders to think seriously about succession planning as baby boomers begin to retire and the revenue cycle increasingly requires more specialized skills, says PeaceHealth’s senior enterprise director of HIM, coding, and CDI. “Everyone’s replaceable,” says Cassi Birnbaum, senior enterprise director of HIM, coding, and CDI at PeaceHealth […]
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The Biden Administration Drug Plan Includes Value-Based Payment Ideas for Medicare

The Biden Administration Drug Plan Includes Value-Based Payment Ideas for Medicare

The administration said it would make the results of its drug price negotiations with manufacturers, as well as its approach to value-based care models, open to a variety of payers. The Biden administration Thursday released its plan to reduce prescription drug prices, which would include the use of models to test value-based payments in Medicare […]
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How Ambulatory Surgery Centers Lower Payer Outpatient Spending

How Ambulatory Surgery Centers Lower Payer Outpatient Spending

Payers can reduce surgical costs by 59 percent by shifting eligible members from the hospital outpatient setting to ambulatory surgery centers. Ambulatory surgery centers are care sites that offer surgical procedures, diagnostics, and preventive care services, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. These sites are not provider offices, rural healthcare clinics, or urgent or […]
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Leaked CMS Report Targets Medicare Noncompliance at CA Hospital

Leaked CMS Report Targets Medicare Noncompliance at CA Hospital

A leaked CMS report targeting HCA Healthcare-owned Good Samaritan Hospital in California warns the hospital to fix Medicare noncompliance issues or risk termination. A leaked CMS report put HCA Healthcare-owned Good Samaritan Hospital in California at risk of program termination by October if they fail to fix Medicare noncompliance issues that resulted in patient harm. […]
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Battling EHR dissatisfaction with 4 personalization techniques

Battling EHR dissatisfaction with 4 personalization techniques

  Personalizing your EHR is a proven best practice for new implementations and major system upgrades. These four new approaches boost physician satisfaction and improve EHR usability. When EHRs first emerged 20 years ago, system vendors pushed for standardization. Consistency was considered the only pragmatic way to support end users and enterprise-wide systems. EHR customization […]
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