Health Care Webinars

Health care providers must ensure reimbursement for services provided, identify services that best meet the clinical needs of patients and develop mechanisms for chronic care virtual monitoring in a manner consistent with the CMS recommendations for reopening...

COVID-19 has prompted a need for creative interactions between payors and providers. This discussion explores managed care contract negotiation strategies in order to facilitate the capture of all possible reimbursements and receivables.

RPA uses software robots or bots to automate business processes by replicating the actions of a human worker. Health care organizations can leverage RPA to automate repetitive tasks, freeing staff to work on higher value activities.

New price transparency requirements are scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2021. This discussion explores top challenges health care organizations face today to be compliant.

Online estimating technology is a game-changer when it comes to meeting legislative price transparency requirements. Hospitals that integrate self-serve estimates into their website will be exempt from complying with the "300 shoppable services”...

A strong coding quality audit program is one of the top defenses against risk, exposure and low reimbursements. Create your coding audit program strategy for success.

Patient Access Education Holds the Key. Health care revenue cycle management begins with Patient Access and ends when the patient’s account is paid and closed. Patient Access staff are on the front line and can make or break the claims process depending...

Fee-for-value: Achieving financial improvements through bundled payments. With the shift to value-based reimbursement, health care providers and payors are partnering together to form bundled payment programs as yet another way to effectively transition from...

As MACRA health care law stands, hospitals and physicians will increasingly be reimbursed based on their ability to reduce cost and improve the quality of patient care. This has left much of the industry scrambling to meet these and other market demands.

Experts Kelley Blair and Erica Franko discuss how you can take patient segmentation beyond propensity-to-pay, meeting patients where they are to create tailored solutions they can embrace.

Virtually all hospitals are struggling to balance fee-for-service with the transition to value-based care. In our recent Becker’s Roundtable on November 15 we touched on how analytics can play a key role, lessening losses to offset declining payments and...

How will MACRA’s 2018 Quality Payment Program rule affect your practice? On November 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the MACRA Quality Payment Program (QPP) 2018 calendar year rule. Although the 2018 final rule holds no big...

According to the Medical Group Management Association, losses in excess of $200,000 per employed physician are not uncommon. As health care organizations drive toward value-based care, the ability to lessen physician practice losses continues to be...

What’s ahead for 2018? The proposed 2018 Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule aims to simplify reporting requirements while further ensuring attention is paid to care quality and fiscal sustainability.

Decision, decisions, decisions … At first glance, choosing a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data reporting method may seem like a simple task. However, a closer look reveals that the key capabilities of the various reporting options can make...

Forge Ahead with MACRA. With negative financial implications at stake, no health care organization can afford to be complacent about MACRA’s Quality Payment Program (QPP). It is imperative that organizations perform risk assessments to determine the...

MACRA strategies for success: Now that the first performance period for MACRA – the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 -- is underway, it is vital that health care providers identify and implement strategies to ensure value-based...