Basics of a Population Health Strategy
Broadly defined as the health outcome of specific groups of people, population health management is making significant strides due to the various integrated delivery systems w...
Benefits of Population Health Management
Although one of the often used terms in the healthcare industry; population health management is also one of the least understood. The industry uses the term to cover everyth...
Key differences between Population Health and Public Health
Population health and public health are amongst the most popular buzzwords in the healthcare delivery sector today. Although both the terms appear to sound and mean the same,...
New England Journal of Medicine: 22% of Surprise Medical Bills occur in ER Visits
Have you ever experienced a situation when you have been made to pay a bill twice for the same product? This is exactly what is happening in the healthcare industry. According...
MACRA – APM vs. MIPS
The latest in a series of steps taken by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to incentivize care quality over volume; MACRA was signed into law in 2015 and re...
10 Common HCC Coding Mistakes
In response to the demand for improving the capture of chronic illness diagnoses for reimbursements, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated the developme...
Risk Adjustment and HCC Documentation Basics
With healthcare reform and system changes underway, accurate medical documentation and coding is critical to the financial health of your practice and to the health of your pa...
Things You Need to Know about the MACRA Final Rule
Representing a departure from the volume based, fee-for-service model, MACRA replaces the SGR (sustainable growth rate) formula to control Medicare costs. Linking Medicare rei...
10 Tips on Physician Credentialing
Your credentialing process needs to start well in advance if you are planning to start your own practice or bring in new doctors to your existing practice. It is important to ...
Are You Monitoring These Key Revenue Cycle Metrics?
Revenue cycle management throws up tons of data for tracking. However, not everything requires regular tracking and measuring. While it is important to look at all the data de...
