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Revenue Cycle Management

11 Tips To Help Manage Your Revenue Cycle in 2015

Revenue cycle management (RCM) is incredibly important to a practice’s profitability. Without the ability to streamline the billing and collections processes, a medical enterprise will find it challenging to stay afloat. Managing your practice’s revenue cycle requires you and your staff to take an honest look at your current workflow to determine what’s working and what isn’t. Here are some things to focus on:

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3 Big Healthcare Trends To Watch in 2015

If you read our post “Healthcare Top 5 Trends,” you know know that healthcare trends from specialty pharmacy to accreditation have been gaining traction this year. We have been keeping an eye on three additional healthcare trends that we expect to hugely impact the healthcare industry through the end of the year and continuing on to 2016. From ICD-10 to telehealth, let’s explore these important trends and what they mean for healthcare!

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HEDIS

HEDIS Explained

You may have heard of NCQA’s HEDIS measurements, but maybe you’re not quite sure what all they entail. Today we’ll walk through what they are, why they’re important, and how they relate to accreditation.

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Revenue Cycle Management

Tips for Optimizing Your Revenue Cycle for 2015

About six months remain in 2015, so now is a good time to reflect on what ways you can optimize your revenue cycle to finish out the year strong. Billing is one of the main areas we’ll focus on today, as it is often one of the main areas revenue cycles get plugged up.

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icd-10 emergency rooms

Study Shows ICD-10 Could Cause Problems For Emergency Rooms

A recent study released by The American Journal of Emergency Medicine suggests that large numbers of emergency rooms will have difficulty implementing ICD-10 when it is officially introduced in October. These problems could have drastic impacts on workflow and cost, and affect payers and providers alike.

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ehr

EHR Replacement Trend

According to a 2015 report, more than 24% of users of EHR systems say that their current systems are “too faulty or cumbersome.” This trend in EHR dissatisfaction seems to be on the rise, too.
So what’s causing the exodus from traditional systems?

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Doctor holding an ipad implementing telehealth strategies.

7 Telehealth Terms You Need to Know

If you read our blog post 5 Top Telemed Trends of 2015, you know that telehealth is slowly revolutionizing the healthcare world for the better. From remote patient monitoring to distance education, telehealth practices and services are benefiting not only healthcare providers and organization but also patients. With telehealth becoming a topic being discussed constantly in current healthcare news, We thought it would be helpful to compile a list of the most commonly used terms in telehealth.

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value based purchasing

Value Based Purchasing in 2015

It might still be early in the year, but it looks like 2015 is already shaping up to be a big year for value-based purchasing initiatives. In large part thanks to the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services last week outlining the year’s worth of expectations for hospitals and healthcare providers.
HHS’ goal is that by 2016, 85% of Medicare’s payments to providers will be under the VBP model, rather than fee-for-service. The shift to VBP from fee-for-service has been ongoing, but the pressure is on for providers and healthcare systems who have been lagging behind in embracing alternative payment models.

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