Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

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Senators call for CMS to provide plan for telehealth changes

By Kat Jercich 03:09 pm July 02, 2020

"We are hearing from patients and providers who are concerned about when Medicare’s temporary changes to telehealth rules will be rolled back and whether they will receive any advance notice," they said.

With telehealth, one practice is now seeing more patients than before the pandemic

By Bill Siwicki 05:00 pm July 01, 2020

New Jersey-based Henry J. Austin Health Center offers an in-depth look at its profitable move to virtual care.

FCC boosts rural healthcare funding by $198M, with eye toward telehealth expansion

By Mike Miliard 01:58 pm July 01, 2020

With many small and remote providers still in acute need of high-speed broadband, but the funding cap outpaced, the commission will carry forward unused funds from previous years to meet the need for virtual care.

UCSF pays $1.14 million to decrypt files after ransomware attack

By Mike Miliard 04:02 pm June 29, 2020

The medical school was hit by an opportunistic malware attack on June 1, and the encrypted data was "important to some of the academic work we pursue as a university serving the public good," officials said.

After initial spike, telehealth visits are on the decline, report finds

By Kat Jercich 01:50 pm June 29, 2020

Data from 50,000 healthcare providers suggests that ambulatory practice visits have not rebounded to pre-pandemic levels.

Here's how smaller practices can prepare for continuing telehealth demands

By Kat Jercich 11:28 am June 29, 2020

Providers without the resources of larger health systems can still make virtual care available to patients.

German healthcare market rich with potential for app developers

02:21 am June 29, 2020

Research conducted last year by consulting company Roland Berger predicts that the German digital health market volume will grow exponentially in coming years.

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Cerner signs 7 new small hospital customers for CommunityWorks

By Mike Miliard 10:24 am June 23, 2020

Cerner announced Monday that it has inked new contracts with seven new hospitals for its cloud-based CommunityWorks EHR, which is designed for community and critical access hospitals.

Tech optimization: Boosting revenue cycle management

By Bill Siwicki 02:08 pm June 22, 2020

Healthcare IT News lines up five RCM experts in this special report to discuss best practices for optimizing this key financial technology.

Epic connects with HCSC on payer data exchange platform

By Mike Miliard 02:49 pm June 19, 2020

The collaboration with Health Care Service Corporation, billed as Epic's first such project with a payer organization, will help health plans more easily review data for managing claims and prior authorization.