Uncompensated Care to Increase Uncompensated care primarily affects hospitals, with an estimated $85 billion in uncompensated care projected between 2025 and 2034. However, non-hospital physicians would see an estimated increase of $34 billion in uncompensated care. Pharmacies would stand to see $56 billion in uncompensated prescription medications.

Remote Patient Monitoring on the March: More than a Remote Possibility We open with a piece on remote patient monitoring (RPM) because, according to a new report by the Peterson Center on Healthcare/the Peterson Health Technology Institute, it’s a growing facet of healthcare. The report shows a significant rise in RPM use by Medicare beneficiaries from 2019 to 2023. What’s “significant?” How about a tenfold increase from 44,500 traditional Medicare patients using RPM in 2019 to 451,000 in 2023! And Medicare Advantage patients also account for an increase, from 20,400 in 2019 to over 160,000 in 2021.

Articles of Interest in the World of Revenue Cycle Management from Advanced Data Systems RCM

Articles of Interest in the World of Revenue Cycle Management from Advanced Data Systems RCM Stop the Cuts and Start the Increase! In a “_ _ _ _ the torpedoes, full speed ahead” move (you can fill in the blanks), an AMA-sponsored bipartisan proposed bill would not only delete the 2.8% Medicare payment cut for 2025, but it would increase reimbursements by 2%. Background is as follows: under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), physicians operating under the MPFS started to get reduced reimbursements on January 1 by virtue of November’s CMS Final Rule. That same rule eliminated a temporary increase of 2.93%.