Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

More than a dozen medical groups including the American Medical Association, Medical Group Management Association, American College of Surgeons and others, have sent the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on August 22 imploring it to quickly make the proposed 90-day reporting period a final rule.

CVS Health Research Institute shows potential for $38 million to $63 million saved per 100,000 health plan members.

Reimbursement specialist R-C Healthcare Management, a business associate under HIPAA, left patient information accessible on the web for four days.

The researchers also found that improving workflow is the top strategy for improving the quality of healthcare technology implementations. 

CareSkore tech uses predictive analytics with the goal of improving clinical and financial outcomes through personalized, real-time interventions in diverse patient populations.  

The changing marketplace is giving healthcare organizations an opportunity to hire job-hunting executives and physicians, according to a new study. But they’ll have to be creative with incentives.  

The 2016 MGMA Cost and Revenue Report also found technology costs have increased 40 percent from 2009 to 2015, corresponding with the 2009 HITECH Act.

The regulation as it stands today is confusing. Don’t panic. Crush it instead. Experts share tips on how to make that happen. 

The hospital is working to integrate systems to it can enable clinicians to use data for more effective decision making.

Executive search firm Witt/Kieffer said that the drive toward clinical quality outcomes and patient engagement are giving rise to the CCO role as distinct from the chief medical officer. CCO attributes? Tech-savvy consensus-builders comfortable living in ambiguity, to start.