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Ask the Experts: Payment Adjustments and Meaningful Use
Our organization has not made any effort to attest to meaningful use, and we have received a notice from CMS with attestation deadline dates in February 2017. Will we experience payment adjustments in the upcoming fiscal year? How can I confirm our status?
Ask the Experts: Payment Plans
What is the industry best practice for hospital payment plans, including terms, length, minimum payment, and interest bearing options?
Ask the Experts: Definition of Bad Debt
What is the standard industry definition for bad debt percentage?
Executive Summary: CMS 2017 PFS Final Rule
This document provides the key financial and operational impacts from the 2017 PFS final rule, published in the November 15, 2016, Federal Register.
Ask the Experts: Physician Malpractice Insurance
Our hospital just acquired a physician group. What is our obligation to provide and/or pay for medical malpractice insurance?
Executive Summary: CMS 2017 OPPS Final Rule
This document summarizes key financial and operational impacts from the FY17 OPPS final rule.
Ask the Experts: Capital Spend Benchmarks
Is there a certain benchmark that hospitals and health systems abide by as a best practice for annual spend on big and small capital projects?
The Patient-Centric Revenue Cycle Roadmap
This tool is a graphic depiction of the contemporary revenue cycle road map, providing a description of and context for the typical revenue cycle work flows with a focus on the consumer, the patient, and the customer.
Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)
This document summarizes the details of the MIPS final rule.
Hospitals Lag in Value-Based Payment but Plan for the Future
Although only one quarter of hospitals will meet CMS’s 2018 goal for value-based care, the majority are on track to increase value-based models within the next three years.