HFMA

The Patient Financial Communications Best Practices were developed by steering committee of experts, including representatives of patients, hospitals, physicians, and others.

This section of the Patient Financial Communications Best Practices addresses communication in advance of service.

This section of the Patient Financial Communications Best Practices addresses communication at the time of service outside the emergency department.

This section of the Patient Financial Communications Best Practices addresses communication in the emergency department.

On Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2013, CMS hosted a second, much anticipated, follow-up call to allow providers and other interested parties to ask questions pertaining to those areas of the two-midnight provision contained in the FY14 inpatient PPS final rule, which pertains to physician order and certification, inpatient hospital admission, and medical review criteria.

Almost one-quarter of organizations spent more than $7,500 per bed in 2012 to achieve or maintain meaningful use, according to a survey of more than 100 hospital and health system CFOs.

Two experts who discussed the key steps to managing a physician valuation program and the ins and outs of common service agreements with physicians.

The session included a case study and sample tools from OhioHealth.

HFMA prepared a comment letter on key issues contained in CMS's 2014 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals.

This fact sheet contains information on the updates to hospital payment rates under the inpatient prospective payment system for fiscal year 2014.