Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

As politicians and their constituents grapple over Medicare for All, these well-funded startups hope to capitalize on the public’s appetite for new, consumer-friendly approaches to health insurance.

Real-time tracking technologies allow the organization to monitor everything from patients to medical equipment.

The goal is to run dozens of such quality improvement projects each year and to ultimately make randomization standard practice for the continual improvement of existing and new programs.

A new report from Manatt Health Strategies points to big differences in how return on investment should be gauged, depending most importantly on provider type – but also on acuity mix, IT infrastructure, staffing and other considerations.

Optum Ventures and Premera Blue Cross led the Series B round.

Physician compensation rebounded from a stagnant 2017, but the increase in productivity was negligible.

The Electronic Health Record Association gives its OK to CMS’ version 2017071 standard for electronic prior authorization applied to prescription drugs for the Medicare Part D program.

Five experts in revenue cycle management IT offer wide-ranging best practices and advantageous tips for launching the technology at healthcare provider organizations.

Countries that spent more on social services tended to spend more on healthcare, even after adjusting for poverty and unemployment rates.

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