Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There’s widespread consensus that payments to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are a mess. These programs, which care for more than 30 million of the nearly 64 million Medicare enrollees , operate on the cutting edge of health care and suffer serious problems in data collection and billing.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Streamline the billing process The right RCM partner will help providers optimize revenue by creating faster, easier processes to identify insurance coverage. As Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) only relate to Medicare coverage, providers need tools that will go beyond MBIs and caps from payer searches.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We are also grateful that Congress included Medicare coverage for telemental health services, just one of the many clinical specialties that benefitted from telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency," said Johnson. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Although the U.S. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The acquisition bolsters the Experian Health business portfolio with more comprehensive and faster healthcare coverage identification and automation capabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, as outpatient services such as infusions outpace projections , and as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services open the door to more outpatient procedures by moving 11 procedures off its “inpatient only” list, ambulatory providers must have the financial strength to make the investments needed to support growth.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Employees have access to the health system’s community education program offering hundreds of classes, and over 60 percent of Mercyhealth partners use some kind of flexible scheduling. For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. Health IT & Revenue Cycle Management.

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