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RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Healthcare IT Today

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is like a one of those huge Lego sculptures. Having a well executed RCM strategy is crucial to keep your organization running because it impacts everything. From the outside it looks one thing, but upon further inspection there are a million tiny little pieces that fit together to create the whole.

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Weekly Roundup – October 29, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… The Benefits of RCM as a Service. At the recent eClinicalWorks National Conference, John spoke to Todd Mallon of Advocare about the health system’s transition from in-house revenue cycle management to RCM as a service , due in part to staffing issues. Read more… The CIO’s Role in RCM.

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Weekly Roundup – December 24, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

Demand for care at home is rising, but traditional telehealth and remote monitoring doesn’t support examination and diagnosis in the patient’s home. Colin Hung talked to TytoCare at HLTH about the company’s new Home Smart Clinic and its efforts to bring primary care into the home.

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Weekly Roundup – July 2, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

In the latest Healthcare IT Today Interviews podcast, Colin Hung chats with Jess Stover at SimiTree and Derek Shaw at Invicta Health Solutions about the role of process automation and data analysis in improving revenue cycle management (RCM) and boosting cash flow at a time when many practices need it.

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Optum first announced its intention to acquire Change in January 2021, but the DOJ initially blocked the deal in February 2022 due to anti-competition concerns. RCM vendor FinThrive introduced automation functionality to its insurance discovery product. Department of Justice challenge of the deal.

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Weekly Roundup – November 12, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

Colin Hung spoke to Patrice Wolfe and Thomas Thatapudi at AGS Health about how process automation such as claims retrieval can ease the burden on RCM staff , bringing in more revenue with less manual work. Direct primary care platform Hint Health acquired AeroDPC , an EHR and practice management vendor.

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Bonus Features – May 5, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente taps Innovaccer (and former CTO) for AI, report finds security flaws in Merge DICOM Toolkit, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Growth in hospital labor expenses is outpacing non-labor expenses for the first time since late 2022 , according to the latest monthly report from Strata. Integrated provider, pharmacy, and medical equipment supplier American Medical Administrators is implementing eClinicalWorks EHR and RCM.

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