MedConcepts, a patient services company, and revenue cycle startup MedPilot have completed an integration partnership to provide superior patient solutions to healthcare providers, RCM companies, and Practice Management Systems. The integration partnership will help expand MedConcepts' robust service offerings, while MedPilot is able to gain nationwide traction.The partnership began when MedConcepts and MedPilot took on a joint client with CarePoint Health. MedConcepts' patient services use
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The State of Healthcare Data Analytics & Reporting: 9 Things to Know
Majority of healthcare organizations do not have have a data analytics solution in place to improve their revenue cycle, yet are currently looking to implement a solution, according to a recent survey conducted by Navicure. Conducted in May and June 2016, Navicure® commissioned Porter Research to conduct a national survey with over 600 healthcare leaders to gauge their current data analytics and reporting processes, challenges and technologies. Here are nine key findings from the
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iHealth Solutions Acquires Revenue Cycle Company DNA Healthcare
iHealth Solutions, LLC, a Louisville, KY-based healthcare software and services company has acquired the assets of revenue cycle management company DNA Healthcare Inc.(DNAH). The acquisition of the New-Jersey RCM provider will strengthen iHealth’s proprietary technology, as well as increase its customer base with major hospitals and clinics across the East Coast. iHealth Solutions provides revenue cycle management, practice management, credentialing and EHR services to small to large size
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Cumberland Consulting Group Launches Performance Improvement Practice
Cumberland Consulting Group, a leading healthcare strategic advisory, technology implementation and support services firm, has launch a performance improvement practice as part of the firm’s provider services portfolio. The practice will provide results-driven solutions to help healthcare providers improve margins, bend the cost curve and increase operating efficiencies.
The practice’s comprehensive services will range from process redesign and workflow improvement to denial management and
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Report: 66% of Providers to Focus on Improving RCM in 2016
With the ICD-10 transition in our rearview, 66% of providers plan to focus on improving their overall revenue cycle management processes in 2016, according to the post-ICD-10 implementation survey from Navicure. Fifteen percent indicated they would be working towards a value-based care model while another nine percent are updating and automating patient collections strategies. Navicure and Porter Research deployed the survey in December 2015 as the final wave of a research study designed to
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Ascension Pumps $200M in Accretive Health: 6 Things to Know
Accretive Health and Ascension, faith-based healthcare organization have announced a long-term strategic partnership to renew, revise and expand their existing services agreement for a 10-year term. As part of the agreement, Ascension will serve as Accretive Health's sole revenue cycle provider to cover all of Ascension’s net patient revenue (NPR).
In addition, a newly formed investment vehicle owned by Ascension and TowerBrook Capital Partners has entered into a definitive agreement under
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NextGen Healthcare Earns KLAS Top Performance for Ambulatory RCM Services
NextGen Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information systems, services and interoperability solutions, announced today that its NextGen RCM Services offering has earned top ranking in the KLAS 2014 Ambulatory RCM Services “Uncovering Truths When Services Are Outsourced” report.
In the newly released report, KLAS, a leading healthcare technology ratings provider, ranks the best-performing healthcare IT vendors providing outsourced billing/revenue cycle management (RCM) on their
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Could Technology Be Driving The High Cost of Healthcare?
Written by Ahmed Mori at Care Cloud:
You wouldn’t know it from the overwhelming amount of positive press it receives, but amplified use of technology in healthcare could be one of the driving factors behind the high cost of healthcare in the United States.
However, it’s not the technology that you’re thinking of.
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