Patients struggle to understand healthcare costs, but the process of setting costs and charging for services rendered can be complex enough to confound industry experts. The chargemaster is at the ...

Healthcare Finance News Editor Richard Pizzi spoke recently with Kelley Blair, senior vice president of professional services at Craneware, about best practices in managing the hospital charge ...

Healthcare providers can’t leave a single dollar on the table. That’s the motivation behind many organizations’ decision to spurn traditional chargemaster consulting services in favor of automated ...

Here’s a CFO pop quiz: What is the one, often overlooked, linchpin in the revenue cycle? I’ll give you a hint; it’s also the most important tool you have for ensuring compliance and optimal ...

Price transparency has dogged hospitals and health systems for years, and while the public scrutiny of how charges are set comes and goes, real-world implications tax patients on a daily basis. Take ...

Adams County Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical-access hospital in Seaman, Ohio, was able to curb million-dollar losses in its revenue cycle after it implemented new chargemaster software, ...

Providers reimbursed a percentage of their billed charges for Medicare Advantage hospital emergency department evaluation and management services may see a significant impact on reimbursement ...

The now transparent federal database of hospital prices could motivate hospital financial assistance offices to write more flexible policies for collecting from uninsured, underinsured, and Medicare ...

After a three-hour visit to the emergency room, a young girl left with a headache and a $4,875 bill. A Southern California hospital charged the girl and her family three times the fair and customary ...