Communicating bad news to patients is a challenging task that demands sufficient time to allow for an honest discussion that minimizes patient distress and responds to the patient's and family's ...

The amount of bad debt stemming from patients with insurance increased more than five-fold in a three-year period, hitting providers' financial statements in an already challenging environment. Almost ...

How much is too much for patients to pay off a bill for medical care? According to data gathered by the Crowe Revenue Cycle Analytics (Crowe RCA) software, collection rates drop significantly when the ...

The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and marketplace exchange components opened the doors for more Americans to secure health care coverage than ever before. That should be good news, right?

A new HFMA report diagnoses the healthcare industry as being in "serious condition," providing a link between declining national affordability and rising patient bad debt and collection costs facing ...

In art and photography, the "vanishing point" is the point at which two lines converge, meeting at the horizon line and suggesting three-dimensional space. In hospital revenue cycles, the vanishing ...

Physicians who experience mistreatment and discrimination by patients, their families, and visitors are more likely to have symptoms of burnout, according to a study published today in JAMA. These ...

UnitedHealthcare is one payer that's limiting coverage of remote patient monitoring. But a recent OIG report on RPM and Medicare could fuel further expansion of this valuable virtual care approach.

Curae Finance has partnered with four new health systems on patient pay. The health systems announced by the company are Emory Healthcare in Atlanta; The Medical University of South Carolina; Marshall ...