Analyzing your revenue cycle from start to finish can lead to recouping significant revenue dollars for your organization. Have you analyzed your revenue cycle lately? Do you know where to begin? To you know what to measure, how to measure, and how to analyze the results?
What is the impact of reducing avoidable admissions?
As part of healthcare reform hospitals are cutting costs. Interestingly these costs come from four primary service lines related to general surgery, neonatal services, infectious disease, and obstetrics. As […]
Key Elements of an Optimized Healthcare Revenue CycleRevenue is the very lifeblood of […]
A new Medicare payment initiative is currently underway to transform how hospitals deliver care. By changing hospitals payment […]
Readmissions have become a focal point over the last couple of years, especially for CMS. The costs have risen to the point of assessing penalties to hospitals whose readmission rates are above the expected and/or standard.
What makes up the federal deficit? What will the costs be by 2019? How are those costs paid? How do the exchange subsidies factor in? How about the Medicaid expansion? How about the individual and employer mandates or more appropriately the penalties for noncompliance?
The ACA promotes quality of care as well as coordination of care. We will discuss 6 bundled payment initiatives/demonstrations CMS is piloting to achieve these goals.
