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May 28 | Jeff Lagasse

Community Care Cooperative launches $5 million campaign to boost telehealth

C3 said that telehealth capability is needed in order to better fight the COVID-19 pandemic, and will better serve…

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May 20 | Healthcare Finance Staff

HIMSSCast: How COVID-19 has accelerated healthcare trends, with MoneyBall Medicine's Harry Glorikian

An interview with MoneyBall Medicine author and investor Harry Glorikian.

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May 07 | Jeff Lagasse

How EHR-integrated referral management practices can lower specialty care costs

By incorporating referrals into a physicians' EHR and creating a focused group of specialists, the shift…

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May 01 | Susan Morse

CMS removes COVID-19 inpatient treatment from ACO performance calculations

The interim rule is extending the mitigation of shared losses back to January 2020.

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Apr 21 | Susan Morse

Providers may earn MIPS credit for COVID-19 data reporting

Participation in the new COVID-19 clinical trials improvement activity carries a high weight from a scoring perspective.

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Apr 14 | Susan Morse

More than half of ACOs likely to leave Medicare Shared Savings program

NAACOS and others want CMS to hold harmless providers participating in alternative payment models from…

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Apr 08 | Jeff Lagasse

One in four rural hospitals were at high financial risk of closing even before coronavirus

The data was gathered before COVID-19 began its spread across the globe, meaning the outlook for…

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Feb 24 | Susan Morse

NAACOS urges CMMI to release more information on new payment model

Lack of information on key financing aspects is preventing ACOs from signing on, says NAACOS president.

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Feb 18 | Jeff Lagasse

Out-of-network primary care tied to rising ACO costs

Decreasing the percentage of primary care delivered out-of-network across all ACOs by 0.1% could save Medicare $45 million a year.

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Jan 17 | Susan Morse

AHIP, hospitals ask Supreme Court to expedite review of ACA decision

Valuable reforms designed to improve healthcare and lower cost hang in limbo, AHA says.

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Debunk the Myth: Outsourcing Doesn't Mean Losing Control With shifts in payer mixes and reimbursement structure, the margin of reimbursement has been shrinking steadily over the last five years. How do revenue cycle leaders navigate payment reform while maintaining stable business office operations?

Care Collaboration Success for Improved Outcomes The nature of our healthcare ecosystem has been one of siloed care. Rarely do payers, providers and local resources come together with the patient's well-being prioritized as a unifying mission. Read how these organizations are getting it right.

Beyond Dollars and Cents: A Closer Look At Value Beyond the expected improvement in specific metrics, many organizations that outsource RCM with a trusted and certified partner are seeing several ancillary benefits of such agreements.

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Clinical Quality Measures 101 Although quality-reporting programs such as meaningful use provide incentives to help providers implement and use electronic health records (EHRs) to collect and report on clinical data, practices often need help deciding what data to collect, which measures to report ...

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