Revenue Cycle Management

Ongoing hospital visitor restrictions can have a range of adverse effects, potentially affecting clinical outcomes and increasing costs for health plans and providers in value-based payment models.

HFMA’s Chad Mulvany says some state governments, like Connecticut, have high enough volumes that COVID-19 may accelerate their adoption of value-based payment models.

Hospitals are looking to apply lessons and innovations learned from their response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospitals are using a variety of efforts — from television campaigns to patient outreach — to get patients to return for care.

Healthcare organizations are bracing for a sicker 2021 patient populations due to pandemic-era disruptions in care, even as they scramble to prevent that outcome.

An infectious disease expert expects hospitals to have larger COVID-19 patient surges than they’ve had to date.

A Biden administration could undertake many changes to federally operated value-based payment models, say industry watchers.

The final rule for the CY21 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System will phase out the inpatient-only list but won’t implement steeper 340B cuts.

Nashville-based entrepreneur Marcus Whitney has launched a venture capital fund that will support Black-led healthcare business endeavors.

Healthcare organizations should be careful to ensure their practices don't put their COVID-19 payments at risk.