Caryl Serbin, RN, BSN, LHRN, is executive vice president and chief strategy officer for SourceMedical. Q: When should an ambulatory surgery center consider outsourcing its billing and collections?

5 Best Practices for Improving Your Revenue Cycle Providers who want to improve their revenue cycle should follow the following five best practices, offered by SmartFund Medical, a complete revenue ...

Billing and collection policy that includes “reasonable efforts” to determine assistance eligibility. Fourth, and finally, the hospital must have a billing and collection policy that requires it to ...

As high-deductible health plans and rising out-of-pocket costs shift more financial responsibility to patients, healthcare providers are facing a growing challenge: getting paid. Payment delays strain ...

Dental billing has become more complex, more scrutinized, and more financially impactful than ever. As insurance requirements tighten, audits increase, and patient financial responsibility grows, even ...

It is illegal in a number of states for physicians to pay a percentage of collected fees to billing and collections companies, a practice known as “fee splitting,” but the prohibition has been widely ...

What is revenue cycle management in healthcare, and why is it important? In today’s healthcare system, patient care is only one side of the equation. Finances, which factor in how providers get paid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hospital bills can quickly become overwhelming for people of limited means. When people lack the money to pay those bills, they ...

Anchor, the free-to-use Autonomous Billing & Collections platform, has announced it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round, led by Mosaic General Partnership (past investments include Uber, ...