Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

The National Quality Forum has published its guidance for the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.

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LAS VEGAS – Newly expanded health IT vendor CPSI has introduced nTrust, a program designed to help community hospitals and skilled nursing facilities improve financial operations while moving into an electronic health records system with no upfront costs, CPSI said.

Barely a year after announcing its ambitious plan to tie reimbursement to quality of care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that 30 percent of Medicare payments are now tied to alternative payment models, such as ACOs.  

As more healthcare organizations begin adopting some form of a value-based payment model, only 3 percent of providers believe their organizations are highly prepared to make the pay-for-value transition, according to the new 2016 HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey.

Group will serve as a  matchmaker between organizations that would like to develop and pilot solutions.

As the way hospitals and other healthcare providers get paid undergoes dramatic changes under value-based reimbursement, there is growing importance surrounding the revenue cycle operations.

Rene Cabral-Daniels, CEO of the Community Care Network of Virginia, says some doctors are not effectively partnering in value-based models.

Cedars-Sinai, Wake Forest and Stanford Healthcare executives shared challenges for sustaining innovation at the HX360 Innovation Leaders Program kick-off event.

Report shared at the HIMSS16 Venture+ Forum shows a shift toward "supportive capital."