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What We Learned (Part 3): Q&A "Adapting to New Reimbursement Models: How to Maximize Payer Performance and Maximize Revenue"
During the HBI webinar "Adapting to New Reimbursement Models: How to Maximize Payer Performance and Maximize Revenue," attendees had an opportunity to ask the speakers questions about how these lessons can be applied to thier own healthcare organization. Here is a recap of the questions and answers given:
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What We learned (Part 2): How Prepared are Healthcare Organizations for Value-Based Reimbursement?
During the recent national webinar session “Adapting To New Reimbursement Models - How To Measure Payer Performance And Maximize Revenue” we polled healthcare providers on several topics around value-based reimbursement contracts and payer performance and monitoring.
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What We Learned (part 1): 7 points on new reimbursement methods that every revenue management team needs to know
Webinar recap: "Adapting to New Reimbursement Models: How to Maximize Payer Performance and Maximize Revenue"
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Webinar: Adapting to New Reimbursement Models- How to Measure Payer Performance and Maximize Revenue
At a time where the healthcare facilities are constantly adapting to accommodate an influx of reimbursement methodologies, tracking your payer performance has never been more important. With these methodologies becoming increasingly relevant in today’s modernized healthcare system, it’s important to study them until you know them like the back of your hand.
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5 Methods of Hospital Reimbursement
What are the Methods of Hospital Reimbursement? Discount from Billed Charges Fee-for-Service Value-Based Reimbursement Bundled Payments Shared Savings For healthcare financial staff, some cycles are so common they are taken for granted – day and night, seasonal changes, month-end close, year-end reporting. On one hand there is the age-old adage, ‘the only constant in life is change’ and on the other hand ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’. When providers approach the task of monitoring payer reimbursement, the doctrine of cycles certainly apply.
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CMS Delays Cardiac Bundles, But Now is The Time To Plan
Due to complications with timing, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has delayed implementation of the three new episodic payment models (EPM) and Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) incentive program until January 1, 2018.
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Can You Lower Hospital Chargemaster Prices Without Sacrificing Net Revenue? You Might Be Surprised
Executives in the healthcare industry are constantly looking for more accurate ways to manage and balance their pricing strategies.
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Dear Hospital C-Suite: Why Your Prices Matter To Me
It’s no secret that healthcare prices have skyrocketed over the last 20 years. It seems like everyone has a personal story (or knows someone) who has had sticker shock for a healthcare service.
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What Does Machine Learning Mean for the Healthcare Revenue Cycle?
There’s no denying that Big Data is everywhere in our day-to-day lives. By some estimates, there has been more data created in the past 2 years than in all of human existence combined. The rapid evolution of technology is aiding the vast amount of choices we have in the consumer world to leverage machine learning in an effort to study our habits and predictively deliver what we are looking for, when and where we need it.
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CMS March Madness: Bundled Payments Delayed But Game Continues
CMS called a timeout this week on some of their mandatory bundled payment programs. But that doesn't mean the value-based reimbursement game has been cancelled.
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