How Digitization of Patient Access Empowered Patients
By Chelsea Richwine – In 2024, more patients than ever before accessed their medical records online through web browsers and apps to manage their health – here’s why that matters.
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AMA Backs Bill to Block Medicare Cuts
A bipartisan group of 10 House members introduced a bill recently to stop the 2.83 percent cut in Medicare payments to physician practices this year while providing a 2 percent payment update, aiming to stabilize physician practices and protect patients’ access to care.
Optimizing Patient Access Services
By Matt Bridge – Efficient patient access operations are paramount for healthcare provider organizations to thrive in today’s tumultuous financial landscape. Inefficiencies created by outdated, time-consuming, and cost-intensive patient access and financial clearance operations create delays in the patient’s journey from…
The State of HIOs & Plans to Participate in TEFCA
By Kim Boyd – A recent study published in Health Affairs examined the current state of Health Information Organizations and their engagement with TEFCA. TEFCA represents a major leap toward creating a unified federal health information exchange, but the study reveals a mix of optimism and hesitancy across the industry.
What a Survey of 1,500 Patients Revealed About Patient’s Access to Care In 2024
By Israel Krush – The survey finds nearly half of patients do not interact with their providers to confirm or reschedule appointments. This lack of engagement aligns with a sharp 37% increase in no-show rates logged across US healthcare systems in 2023.
The Evolution of Patient-Centered Care: Patient Access to Their Health Data
By Lana Moriarty & Alex Mugge – HHS is working diligently to strengthen policies that can bring patients more comprehensive access to their health information. In October 2023, the ONC and CMS held an event to share initiatives that help patients access their health data.
Financial Clearance Automation to Accelerate Patient Access and Shrink Denial Rates
By Matt Bridge – Finance leaders are battling the rising denial headwinds that threaten to derail the progress healthcare organizations have made toward stabilizing revenues after years of operating in the red. For many, the solution is an optimization of financial clearance and other patient access processes.
A Decade of Data Examined: Patient Access to Electronic Health Information
The world is better off and getting better, compared to popular opinion and what’s broadcast on the news, says Hans Rosling and his co-authors, using simple, comprehensive measures, in Factfulness. Sometimes taking a step back and looking at the big picture (and the data) is important.
Top Earning ACOs Deliver Keys to Success
Accountable care organizations have been around in Medicare for more than a decade, generating more than $22 billion in savings and giving back more than $8 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund. But a handful of ACOs has consistently been at the top of the list of top savers, including…