by Dylan Bestler | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog
How much are paper records costing your organization? Healthcare spending in the US continues to grow, reaching nearly $3 trillion in 2014 alone. While many organizations – public, private, and federal – are exploring strategies to address this growth on a national...
by Dylan Bestler | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog
Is your LTACH ready for Medicare reform? In an effort to contain rising costs, Medicare has dramatically altered its LTACH payment model with the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013. This change, implemented in fiscal year 2016, aims to reduce the payment rate for...
by Dylan Bestler | Jun 20, 2018 | Blog
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a new approach to the familiar “meaningful use” EHR incentive program. Now termed “Promoting Interoperability,” these updated criteria seek to address pricing transparency, facilitate the...
by Dylan Bestler | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last month that it was rebranding its familiar electronic health record (EHR) Incentive Programs from “meaningful use” to “Promoting Interoperability.” Among the proposed changes are welcome...
by Dylan Bestler | Apr 26, 2018 | Blog
Medicare accounts for an increasingly large portion of all long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) discharges, with current estimates indicating that approximately two thirds of all LTACH discharges are Medicare discharges. Between 2004 and 2013, Medicare spending on...
by Dylan Bestler | Apr 24, 2018 | Blog
I’ve already discussed the wealth of information to be found in medicine’s oft-forgotten business offices, but today I want to focus on the RCM team specifically. I’d like to go out on a limb and assert that your revenue cycle team may even be the key to improving...
