Healthcare Revenue Cycle

Advanced practice providers now represent about two-fifths of the physician enterprise workforce. New metrics are required to reflect this and other transformative changes within the physician enterprise.

Healthcare labor trends are boosting compensation for hospital and health system executives, according to a new report.

Amazon’s announced purchase of One Medical for nearly $4 billion should spur providers to fortify their primary care strategies.

Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: Long COVID could impact healthcare coverage for many, the national uninsured rate reaches an all-time low, and more nurses are planning on leaving the profession.

A new final rule codifies updated criteria for deciding arbitration cases under the No Surprises Act, with providers potentially coming out ahead relative to last year’s interim final rule.

Given the millions of people who have left their jobs as part of the Great Resignation or have found themselves unemployed for other reasons, your health system’s ability to improve its eligibility and enrollment processes in the revenue cycle is essential.

For hospitals and health systems, survey results show that the ongoing labor crunch in revenue cycle operations has provided an impetus to expand process automation.

For hospitals that choose to begin operating under the new rural emergency hospital designation in 2023, Medicare will pay for any service that would be covered as a hospital outpatient department service.

Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: Fewer than 2% of reviewed U.S. hospitals earned Lown’s ‘most socially responsible’ distinction, gun violence is a major health problem in the United States, and ACA health insurers denied 18% of all in-network claims in 2020.

Medicare physician payments would decrease by more than 4% in 2023, according to a proposed rule.