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Revenue Cycle Consolidation Causes Heartburn For Hospitals
For hospitals contemplating revenue cycle solutions, it’s important to make sure your revenue cycle solutions aren’t half-baked. Have you ever bought a bunch of ingredients and gadgets to duplicate what the pros make on a cooking show? They make it look easy…but it’s not. There are nuanced skills with timing, technique, temperature, and other subtle variables related to sequence and presentation. Cooking shows are similar to industry consolidation; be it energy, automotive, or even healthcare. So, what do we get with consolidation?
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Why Mandatory CMS Bundles Could be the Best Thing to Happen to Your System
Much of the rhetoric surrounding mandatory bundles has been negative and defensive – i.e. how do healthcare organizations deal with these programs to prevent risk and avoid financial penalties to CMS?
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No Joke: CJR Ruling Starts Today
No April Fools joke here. Medicare's Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) ruling officially goes into effect TODAY in 67 markets leaving many hospitals accountable for the total cost of services across the entire episode of care for hip and knee replacements. The financial risk for hospitals is between $500,000 and $3 Million in payback penalties over the next five years. That's a lot of money.
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CJR Is Here: How To Prepare for The Financial Impact [Webinar]
This is not an early April Fools joke. Medicare's Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) officially goes into effect on April 1st in 67 markets (the specific MSA's can be found at the bottom of this post), leaving many hospitals accountable for the total cost of services across the entire episode of care for hip and knee replacements. That's why we're partnering with Healthcare Business Insights (HBI) on March 15th for a webinar to help hospitals prepare for the financial impact of the CJR model.
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Hospitals Face Up to $3 Million Financial Loss from CJR Ruling
We now have a better understanding of the financial implications of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model, the new CMS rule that requires bundled payments for hip and knee replacements.
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A New Era for Hospital Finance: Being Accountable for Things Beyond Your Control
Significant Changes Coming - Get Ready Now On November 16, 2015, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that CMS has approval for the final rule for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Payment Model for Acute Care Hospitals Furnishing Lower Extremity Joint Replacement Services . It will be applicable in April 2016. CJR is the first mandatory bundle model, and it represents the prototype for massive change in healthcare finance that will take place in the next two years.
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It's Official: CMS Finalizes Mandatory Bundled Episodes Initiative
As expected, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model, which will hold hospitals accountable for the total quality of care they deliver to Medicare beneficiaries for hip and knee replacements from surgery through recovery. The announcement came in a news release on Monday.
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The Alphabet Soup of the New CMS Bundled Episode Model
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) loves to use acronyms and there’s quite a few related to its new CCJR bundled episode payment model. For healthcare finance professionals, it’s easy to lose sight of some of these, so we’ll recap and break them down with definitions:
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Ready or Not, CMS says Go: Hospitals to Manage Episodes of Care
By now, most healthcare finance leaders are at least familiar with the recent CMS Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR) Model. This is a really big deal for healthcare providers. Let’s start with the basics:
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