Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

The reach of the cyberattack is a looming crisis for providers' financial stability, particularly in rural areas, and could soon impact patient care, said Ted Okon of the Community Oncology Alliance.

Artificial intelligence is a force multiplier for health systems and their RCM professionals, says Noel Felipe, senior vice president and revenue cycle practice leader at Firstsource.

The healthcare marketplace says its new Integration Partner Program for EHRs and PM vendors is focused on helping all healthcare specialties grow.

The health plan will host Epic's Payer Platform on Google Cloud with an eye toward building "an intelligence system equipped with AI to deliver valuable analytics and insights to healthcare workers, patients, and members."

"More organizations will be compromised," said the info sharing group as it urged updates to ScreenConnect software. The AHA said health systems should assess the effects of staying disconnected from nonimpacted Optum and United Health network services.

Revenue Cycle vice president Kimberly Scaccia is scheduled to address ways of unlocking a team's potential at HIMSS24.

Systems across UnitedHealth Group are operational, according to the latest update. However, payment processing outages have been reported.

2017 saw Houston Methodist Coordinated Care Medicare Accountable Care Organization in the 40th percentile in some of the CMS ACO quality metrics. Today it's in the 90th. Physicians also have received CMS shared savings based on their quality percentile performance.

Dr. Will O'Connor, CMIO at TigerConnect, discusses the role of technology to improve internal and external communications for discharges and transport.

Most health plans leaders are investing in technology for digital transformation as the primary way to achieve organizational goals.