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Lease administration: The key to reducing business risk and expenses
Your lease portfolio represents one of the largest business expenses within your budget. Download this white paper to learn how to take control of your leases.
Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) – What It Is & How It Works
Revenue cycle management in healthcare is the process of tracking revenue from patients, including patient registration, claim submission, reimbursement, and communication with insurance companies, and is essential for providing a positive patient experience.
FAQs about Patient Financial Communications
When is it OK to have financial discussions with patients? A reasonable attempt should be made to have the discussion as early as possible, before a financial obligation is incurred (i.e., before care is provided). Timely discussions
CY 2025 OPPS/ASC Proposed Rule Summary
HFMA presents a detailed summary of the proposed rule issued by CMS updating payments under the hospital outpatient prospective payment system and the ambulatory surgical center payment system for CY 2025.
CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Summary – Part I
HFMA presents Part I of three detailed summaries of the proposed rule relating to the Medicare physician fee schedule for CY 2025 and other revisions to Medicare Part B policies.
Navigating the rising tide of denials
Managing the healthcare revenue cycle is more challenging — and more critical — than ever. Amid sluggish margins, ongoing staffing challenges and rising costs, providers feel unprecedented pressure to optimize their revenue cycles. Addressing the ever-increasing issue of denials is a great place to begin. The latest data on denials and proven strategies to reduce…
CY 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule Summary
HFMA presents a detailed summary of the CY 2025 proposed rule updating payment rates for home health agencies.
Premier’s AI platform offers a data-driven solution for medical group leaders
Learn about how Provider Practice Benchmarking allows medical group leaders to directly measure their performance across more than 150 physician and advanced practitioner specialties in a number of areas from a single reporting platform.
Healthcare organizations increasingly rely on third-party solutions for RCM tasks
While healthcare organizations rely on native EHR functionality for certain revenue cycle management (RCM) tasks, they increasingly look to third-party solutions for others. But what questions should they be asking? Check out key takeaways in this research report.
UChicago Medicine grows into role of AI innovator
UChicago Medicine discovered that they are ahead of other healthcare institutions in their use of AI for revenue cycle, and they are focusing on using AI to strengthen business outcomes, supporting a culture of AI innovation, implementing a governance framework, and measuring and optimizing performance.