Don’t Let Your Billing System Conversion Break Your Revenue Cycle (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a two-part series by Roberta Schultz. The first installment can be found here on insidePatientFinance.com. When converting to a new billing system,...
View ArticleTexas Congressman Files Bill to Halt ICD-10 Conversion
A Texas Congressman has filed a bill to prevent the United States healthcare industry from converting to ICD-10. This week Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) filed H.R. 1701, a bill “to prohibit the Secretary of...
View ArticleFear of Violating HIPAA Puts Gun Laws, Sharing of Patient Data, at Risk
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has come into the spotlight of late as an unintended deterrent for everything from sharing patient information with family members to gun...
View ArticleThe Easiest Way to Keep Track of Healthcare Regulations
Change is the norm for healthcare, especially when it comes to accounts receivable. Healthcare providers are being bombarded by regulation on all fronts–by the federal government, by states, even by...
View ArticleConsumers Want Smartphone Healthcare; You Want to be HIPAA Compliant
Once upon a time, cell phones were cell phones and they were the size of your whole arm and had antennas that were two stories tall. Now cell phones are smart phones and I can order lunch and pay my...
View ArticleLeveraging Predictive Analytics to Fight Bad Debt
RevSpring On June 16, 2013 at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s annual ANI conference, keynote speaker Donald Berwick told the audience that the levels of waste in the existing...
View ArticleTransparency Should Begin from the Inside Out
“Transparency” is a ubiquitous buzzword heard throughout the healthcare industry, usually in reference to medical price and cost information between patient and provider. Price transparency is, of...
View ArticleCritical Access Hospitals: Finding Additional Pairs of Hands
Ken Spencer,Array Services Group For small critical access hospitals (CAH), it is nearly impossible to find the internal resources required for those special projects or challenges that seem to come...
View ArticleCompliance and Your Partners: Is Everyone Doing Their Part?
This is part one of a two-part article on compliance and your partners. You can find a link to part two, “The Two Pillars of Compliance,” at the end of this article. Thanks to the Patient Protection...
View ArticleThe Two Pillars of Partner Compliance: Transparency and Information Security
This is the second of two parts dealing with compliance and your partners. You can read part one, “Compliance and Your Partners: Is Everyone Doing Their Part?” by clicking here. The US Department of...
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