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Patient collections: 7 Fierce strategies for getting paid

To thrive in a still-challenging financial environment, practices must be more aggressive about collecting patient deductibles, coinsurance payments and outstanding balances. FiercePracticeManagement interviewed several revenue cycle experts and practice managers who shared their top advice for collecting money while maintaining positive relations with patients. Surprisingly, many of their strategies are simple (and effective!). Click here to see their tips

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WellPoint, Aetna, and Humana pilot remote monitoring to cut readmissions

July 29, 2010 — 1:06pm ET | By Neil Versel
Insurers are pursuing new ways to reduce the cost of hospitalization and readmissions, the Wall Street Journal reports. And it involves giving heart patients remote monitoring technology to take... Read more...

Texas, New Mexico lead the nation in rates of uninsured

July 29, 2010 — 12:24pm ET | By Sandra Yin
Texas has earned the dubious distinction as the state with the highest share (26.8 percent) of uninsured people, according to the Washington Post's analysis of recently released census data. It is... Read more...

Healthcare on a budget: A new trend?

July 29, 2010 — 12:11pm ET | By Dan Bowman
The trend of Americans cutting back on healthcare use during tough economic times is nothing new, considering that many lose their jobs and, in turn, their health insurance. However, according to... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Physicians should talk more to their patients

July 28, 2010 — 2:22pm ET | By Debra Beaulieu
Physicians are not mind readers. In a recent experiment, 29 primary-care doctors were asked to complete a survey about what they thought their 207 patients believed about the cause, meaning,... Read more...

Physicians, hospitals rush to form ACO alliances

July 28, 2010 — 1:47pm ET | By Sandra Yin
Physician groups and hospitals are scrambling to set aside old rivalries and signing up as partners, in order to take advantage of incentives Medicare will give to Accountable Care Organizations... Read more...

Mayo Clinic aims to accelerate online presence with new social media center

July 28, 2010 — 12:17pm ET | By Dan Bowman
As readers of FierceHealthcare and its related publications well know, despite a notion by some that combining social media and healthcare is a dangerous mix, more and more health professionals... Read more...

Live for today: Atul Gawande makes the case for hospice care

July 28, 2010 — 11:53am ET | By Sandra Yin
In what could turn out to be a seminal article that helps raise demand for hospice care and helps the terminally ill consider a more thoughtful approach to the art of dying, Brigham and Women's... Read more...

Cheating is the downside of targeted P4P, study says

July 28, 2010 — 10:58am ET
As government and private payers look to pay-for-performance (P4P)--also called value-based purchasing--as the payment model that will push providers to produce higher-quality patient care at a lower... Read more...
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