As more hospital workers return to the office, the in-person meeting is back. After two years of virtual meetings, there are certain factors that need to be considered when meeting face-to-face. For example, room setup can affect a meeting in significant ways.
As hospitals, clinics and health systems seek to overcome the wave of burnout and departures among their clinical staff, they might want to adopt an approach that they’ve used over the past decade in clinical care: choosing wisely.
Jason Nelms is the new vice president of revenue cycle at Cone Health. Nelms provides leadership and expertise for the team that tackles billing and payments—and the array of issues connected with them. Those issues include price transparency, improving the patient experience, processing payments and working through claims denials.
Arizonans will decide Proposition 209, a statewide ballot measure that would lower the maximum interest rates on medical debt and change several rules on general consumer debt collection.
The No Surprises Act signed into law in 2020 contained provisions intended to address unexpected gaps in insurance coverage that result in “surprise medical bills,” instances in which patients unknowingly obtained medical services from physicians and other health care providers outside their health insurance network.