Restructuring a hospital’s chargemaster in this era of transparent pricing often results in material increases and decreases in line item charges to align with market norms, unit costs, or a hybrid thereof. Learn how your organization can enhance its financial performance in this environment.
In our current auditing environment, the importance of maintaining an internal audit plan for facility services cannot be overstated. Watch our complimentary on-demand webinar to learn how leveraging technology can help you review all of your claims or coding abstract data and uncover revenue opportunities, allowing you to focus your time and investment on problem areas.
Wondering how the 2023 updates to E&M guidelines affect your team? Look no further. Our experts have developed a set of customized resources to aid professionals as they put the guidelines into practice.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have created over 50 new C-codes (C7500–C7555) for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) that affect many procedures. These codes were created to allow additional payment for packaged services for ASCs.
Panacea Healthcare Solutions today announced the appointment of Kevin Chmura as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Chmura joins Panacea with over 25 years of experience and a proven track record of delivering exceptional results to some of the country’s largest healthcare systems. He succeeds Fred Stodolak, who becomes Panacea’s Chairman of the Board.
External audits are rapidly returning to full operating force following a lull that took place amid the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst a time of shrinking operating margins and heightened scrutiny by federal healthcare contractors, providers are seeking to focus on the benefits of technology-driven internal auditing.
Have you ever wondered how hospital prices became so irrational? As is often the case, things changed incrementally. Hospitals and healthcare systems have experienced years of inadequate inflationary update factors, often reduced by factors such as presumed over-coding under the federal inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems.