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Diane Watkins, vice president of revenue cycle for Saint Luke's Health System in Kansas City, Missouri, discussed the challenges of informing patients about their upfront costs, during her presentation on improving revenue cycle performance at this week's Healthcare Financial Management Administration's annual conference.
The Supreme Court released its long-awaited opinion on King v. Burwell this morning in a 6-3 vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act's federal subsidies.
Patients want more accurate billing and price transparency from their providers, but still don't receive it, according to a new survey by Transunion Healthcare. In an exclusive interview with FierceHealthFinance from this week's HFMA annual conference, Transunion Healthcare President Gerry McCathy discusses the findings
An anti-trust battle is brewing in Shreveport, Louisiana, between the operator of privatized LSU hospitals and a community health system that already has a large market share in the area.
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services begins to sort through the comments it's received on the proposed "flexibility" rule softening Stages 1 and 2 of Meaningful Use for...
The Government Employees Health Association's efforts to address the health needs of its roughly 85,000 moderate-risk members aim to strike a balance between frequent interventions for high-risk members and the casual care reminders that low-risk members get.
Many electronic health record studies seem to state the obvious. But every so often, a study delves into new territory and makes one sit up and take notice. That's how I feel about this new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association about EHR usability.
Specific recommendations were recently outlined by the American Medical Informatics Association on what it sees as the present status and future direction of electronic health records. The findings were presented at the iHealth Clinical Informatics Conference in Boston on May 29.
EHRs not only are transforming how healthcare is performed, they're also on the cusp of reshaping the law surrounding that care. Are they the right changes? Or do we need to take a step back and reassess them?
When I dine with Jerry Seelig, it's usually to enjoy some foodie oasis in or around Los Angeles. But when I sat down with him for breakfast last week, it was to deconstruct his recently...
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