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 ...

The authors propose a simple legal mechanism to combat chargemaster abuses and encourage provider price competition. This solution is superior to prevailing legislative and regulatory responses to ...

ICD-10 is coming, and it will affect virtually every department within a hospital or health system. A question many are asking is, “How exactly will it impact the revenue cycle?” At the 2012 AHIMA ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...