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Examples of Online Patient Estimates to Help Your Hospital with Price Transparency
At a time when healthcare consumers expect greater personalization when it comes to receiving price estimates, providers are feeling the pressure to improve price transparency by providing an online patient estimation solution that is engaging, easy to use, and most of all, accurate.
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Why Hospitals Should Stop Automatic Chargemaster Increases
Hopefully your hospital's pricing strategy doesn't sound like this: “Prices were set in cement a long time ago and just keep going up almost automatically.” This was one Chief Financial Officer’s explanation of Chargemaster prices from the controversial 2013 Time Magazine article “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us.” The article highlighted the extreme cases of high prices at hospitals and even called several hospitals (by name) into question. Although some of the findings in the report were later disputed, the article placed hospital pricing under a microscope and reinforced the need for defensible pricing. Automatic price increases might be the traditional route, but the strategy opens itself up to scrutiny, inefficiencies, and a potential loss in net revenue. Because of these factors and the recent emphasis on increased price transparency and defensible pricing, hospitals are moving away from the "across the board" annual gross price increase and towards a modeling approach to predict how charge adjustments impact net revenue. Not only does this give finance a clearer picture of future net revenue, it creates a defensible pricing strategy if prices ever come into question.
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Key Metrics for Contract Management
The proper use of healthcare contract management software can make a difference of 2-3 percent net revenue. Thus, the proper use of a contract management system should be considered “mission critical,” from a financial perspective, but it often does not receive the attention it deserves. This whitepaper explains how applying metrics to healthcare contract management helps assure all accounts receive appropriate attention, thus ensuring revenue integrity.
Price Transparency | chargemaster review
Price Transparency: Why Knowing and Defending Your Price Matters
There is a lot of discussion about Price Transparency in Healthcare across our country. Many state legislatures are getting involved, including Florida. Recently, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced he will encourage (some might say push) state legislation to require hospitals to post their prices for procedures and services as well as their average reimbursement on the hospitals' websites in early 2016.
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Are Florida Hospitals Price Gouging?
Florida Governor Rick Scott thinks so and he wants to add legislation to put an end to it.
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