Recent News From The Midland Group
4 Ways to Excel at Bundled Payments
Come April 1, nearly 800 hospitals nationwide will be required by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to…
How to Implement a Successful Patient Engagement Plan
The shift from a fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement model toward a value-based one is indicative of an overarching, industry-wide shift that…
3 Major EHR Trends & What They Mean For You
Technology is playing an even greater and more prominent role in hospital/patient relationships. Patient demand for electronic health records (EHRs)…
Are You On Top of Your TCPA Compliance?
The recent clarification of TCPA compliance by the FCC last year has proven to be a thorn in the side…
4 Benefits of a One-Touch Approach
Self-pay balances are growing yet they are increasingly hard to collect. Why? Even if you have an in-house team or…
Why Throwing Out Early-Out Vendors is Short-Sighted
There seems to be a trend with hospitals to assign accounts to early-out vendors later in the revenue cycle rather…
4 Steps to Resolving Patient Accounts
Ensuring that your patients pay on time and in-full is the crux of resolving patient accounts. More often than not,…
The Link Between Patient Satisfaction and RCM Outsourcing
Patient satisfaction is the future of healthcare in the US. This goes beyond the care your patients receive while they’re…
Nerdwallet Study Reveals Increased Medical Debt Among Americans: How Can You Avoid Unnecessary Medical Debt?
Last month, financial health website Nerdwallet revealed findings of a study titled “NerdWallet Health study: Medical debt crisis worsening despite…
Health Literacy: Reducing Costs and Increasing Healthcare Access
‘Heath Literacy’ is a term we see used often in the healthcare world. Although it’s a somewhat vague term, it…
Insurance Expansion and Uncompensated Care: What We Know So Far
In September of this year, Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation…
Slower Revenue for Some Hospitals Creates Opportunity to Improve
In late August, Moody’s Investors Service released a report showing slower revenue growth for not-for-profit hospitals in the US during…
