In a recent webinar hosted by Becker's Hospital Review, Eric Flyckt, MD, director of client analytics for Objective Health, shared critical strategies for hospitals to achieve positive Medicare margins.

When Michael King, CFO of El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., was completing his undergrad, he became certified as an emergency medical technician — a feat he says helped him get to this point today.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a 150-page report (pdf) yesterday that included several recommendations on how to improve the $3.7 trillion municipal securities market.

Massachusetts lawmakers passed a pioneering bill yesterday that will not let the rate of healthcare spending exceed that of the state economy through 2017, according to a New York Times report.

A draft of a New Jersey Health Department audit on Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, N.J., which was bought by for-profit private investment firm MHA last year, identified financial problems despite the hospital's profitability, according to a report from…

Here are the top 21 claim adjustment codes, followed by reason codes, reflecting why a claim wasn't paid or was paid differently than billed. These codes pertain to claims for all specialties across the country from April 23 through July…

When it comes to ICD-10 and ICD-11, there are generally two camps. There are those that believe ICD-10 is a necessary coding step to take, and all hospitals and providers should make the steady progress toward its adoption. There are…

James Sances had a full plate as CFO of Arlington, Ill.-based Alexian Brothers Health System in the past year, but his hard work is paying off.

The Recovery Audit (RAC) Prepayment Review demonstration will officially begin Aug. 27, according to a recent release from CMS.

Health insurer Aetna reported second quarter net income of $457.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2012 — a 14.7 percent decline from last year's total of $536.7 million.