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Revenue Cycle
Tips For Addressing Patient Payment Challenges
Health systems should explore flexible payment plans and focus on pre-service patient engagement to improve revenue cycles, according to a...
Payer
When Hospitals Ditch Medicare Advantage Plans, Thousands of Members Get to Leave, Too
In the past 15 months, CMS has quietly offered roughly three-month special enrollment periods allowing MA members in 13 states...
Innovation
New RPM Project Targets Cardiac Care for Expectant Mothers
UCSF is launching a remote patient monitoring program aimed at identifying arrhythmias in expectant mothers and improving detection, treatment and...
Revenue Cycle
Podcast: Winning a two-year fight over a bogus bill
In July 2022, "An Arm and a Leg" listener Meagan experienced a bout of vertigo that landed her in the...
CMO
A Chicago Hospital Bows to Federal Pressure on Trans Care for Teens
Lurie Children's paused gender-affirming surgeries for people younger than 19 in the wake of an executive order from Trump.
Payer
The Ranks of Obamacare 'Fixers' Axed in Trump's Reduction of Health Agency Workforce
The cuts have demoralized caseworkers, whose jobs demand a grasp of complex and arcane health insurance rules.
Revenue Cycle
Rev Cycle Leaders Tackle Patient Engagement, Prior Auths
Revenue cycle leaders today are tasked with improving patient engagement, while they're facing frustrating prior authorization requirements that lead to...
Innovation
MUSC Builds on Success to Expand Virtual Nursing Across the Hospital
The Charleston-based health center, participating in HealthLeaders? Virtual Nursing Mastermind program, is ready to move beyond med/surg units and put...
Innovation
New Study: RPM Reimbursement Needs a Reset
CMS spent almost $200 million on remote patient monitoring in 2023, and more providers are embracing the technology to track...
CMO
In Rural Mass., Patients and Physicians Weigh Trade-Offs of Concierge Medicine
Many physicians who've made the change say it resolved some of the pressures they faced in primary care.
CMO
More Psych Hospital Beds Are Needed for Kids, but Neighbors Say Not Here
NIMBYs fear it would worsen safety and lower property values.