MTBC, a provider of cloud-based healthcare IT and revenue cycle management solutions has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement ("APA") to acquire substantially all of the revenue cycle, practice management, and group purchasing organization assets of Orion Healthcorp, Inc. and 13 of its affiliate companies (together "Orion"), as the primary bidder in a Section 363 sale under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. After the acquisition is closed, management expects the transaction would increase MTBC's
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Capital Region Medical Center to Implement Cerner EHR and Revenue Cycle Solution
Capital Region Medical Center (CRMC) has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management solutions to support improved health outcomes and optimized revenue functions. University of Missouri (MU) Health Care will extend its Cerner Millennium® domain to CRMC. As an affiliate of MU Health Care since 1997, the domain extension to CRMC will further the health system’s well-established collaboration
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Change Healthcare Adds Front-End Patient Access to Revenue Cycle Analytics
Change Healthcare has unveiled a new version of Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics that adds front-end patient access analytics to expand its revenue cycle intelligence portfolio. Available now, hospitals and health systems using Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics can more readily understand the interdependencies and influences across the revenue cycle from the first moment they touch a consumer all the way through claims submission, processing, billing, and payment.One reason why revenue cycle managers
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Trinity Health Moves to Epic for Single Integrated EHR & Rev Cycle Platform
Michigan-based provider Trinity Health has announced it has selected Epic for a single, enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management platform. The Epic integrated system will enable the health system to improve experiences for patients and clinicians.Trinity Health's fully integrated health record will improve the care experience across the entire system by providing a single, comprehensive health record for each person.For patients and consumers, it will provide
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Beacon Health Expands Revenue Cycle Services with R1 RCM
Beacon Health System, a South Bend, IU-based regional healthcare provider have signed a multi-year agreement with R1 RCM to provide additional revenue cycle management services to address its needs. Under terms of the agreement, Beacon Health is adding Revenue Capture Services (RCS) to the existing High Yield services in place. Utilizing a unique technology and robust team of revenue cycle experts, RCS provides products such as charge capture, coding review and others aimed at identifying
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The Often-Overlooked Role of Provider Data Management in Population Health
Editor’s Note: Erin Jospe, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at Kyruus, a leader in provider search and scheduling solutions, helping health systems optimize patient access enterprise-wide.Health systems today have access to a tremendous amount of data with which to understand their patient populations better. The population health movement represents a paradigm shift away from merely generating data, to now harnessing it as a means through which to understand the factors and determinants
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Critical Access Hospital Replaces Paragon with eClinicalWorks Acute Care EHR
Waverly Health Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital located in Waverly, Iowa is expanding its relationship with eClinicalWorks by replacing their existing EHR from Paragon Inpatient to eClinicalWorks Acute Care EHR and Revenue Cycle Management. This transition will reduce overall implementation costs while creating unified patient records in inpatient and outpatient communities while ensuring the seamless exchange of information.“At Waverly Health Center we are dedicated to providing high
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Paperless Productivity Acquires WiseCLAIM to Expand Presence in Healthcare Claims Automation Market
Paperless Productivity, a workflow automation consultancy and systems integrator, has announced its acquisition of the WiseCLAIM platform from WiseTREND. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. WiseCLAIM was developed in response to the continued prevalence of paper CMS claims forms among healthcare payers, Third Party Administrators (TPAs), and billing services. By automating data extraction from CMS/HCFA/UB forms, it has become an integral tool for mid-market and large firms in
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Partners HealthCare Expands Use of Kyruus’ Patient Access Solutions
Partners HealthCare is expanding its use of Kyruus’ patient access solutions to improve the patient experience across all its entities, and to ensure patients can gain access to Partners’ world-class network of providers.Partners originally started working with Kyruus in 2014 to help power its online find-a-doc solution. Now, Partners is expanding its use of Kyruus to develop a robust provider directory to help patients find the right provider based on a wide range of criteria, including
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Revenue Cycle: Why Patient Segmentation Is Key to Mitigating Financial Risk
With technology continuing to advance, making healthcare internet platforms easier to navigate, patients are becoming savvy consumers who increasingly are shopping for the healthcare they want to receive. Emerging trends, such as higher insurance deductibles and regulatory requirements for upfront estimates, are driving this trend, underscoring the role of patient access to move beyond the “one size fits all” mentality to address these fundamental changes.Traditionally, patients have had limited
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