News
Blog Post
Consumerism
COVID-19
Patient Experience
Patient Satisfaction
R1 RCMNovember 17, 2020
4 Ways Contactless Pre-Registration and Intake Pays for Itself
Healthcare organizations, like all businesses, face continued uncertainty as they navigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A recent
Best Practices
Blog Post
COVID-19
Finance
Payer Contracts
Physician Services
Revenue Cycle
R1 RCMNovember 12, 2020
Increasing Revenue Through Payer Contract Management
Financial recovery isn’t just an uphill battle for today’s physician practice – it’s a mountainous one of Kilimanjaro proportions. Most practices are making up for a substantial decrease in revenue that resulted from a
Financial Clearance
Physician Services
Podcast
Revenue Cycle
Dan DooleyNovember 10, 2020
Physicians Practice: Financial Clearance, Patient Advocacy, and the Effects of the Pandemic on RCM
Dan Dooley, Vice President of Physician Services at R1, recently recorded a podcast with Physicians Practice where he discusses how the pandemic will change revenue cycle management, as well as how practices can achieve financial clearance and thereby further support their patients.
Blog Post
Consumerism
Patient Experience
Patient Satisfaction
R1 RCMNovember 9, 2020
Navigating the Digital Patient Journey: What a Typical Care Visit Looks Like in 2020
If you’ve visited a practice or hospital since COVID-19 hit, chances are you’ve noticed significant changes both prior to and after your appointment such as: receiving a text or email inviting you to complete pre-registration work or a digital COVID pre-screening questionnaire, checking in with your phone from ...
Article
Patient Experience
Physician Services
Telehealth
Vijay KotteNovember 6, 2020
MGMA: Enduring the Second Wave - 4 Strategies to Prepare Your Practice's Revenue Cycle
When COVID-19 first hit, practices were forced to enter crisis mode and make tough decisions to remain open. More than 12,000 job losses occurred in the month of March alone,¹ and on average practices have reported a 55% decrease in revenue.² After facing the devastating financial impacts from the initial ...
Best Practices
Blog Post
Coding
Physician Services
Yvonne RussellNovember 6, 2020
Three Best Practices to Improve Reimbursement Via Coding
2020 is beginning to wind down, but COVID-19’s financial impact on physician practices isn’t. As The Washington Post recently stated, “many of the doctors…who form the backbone of front-line ...
Article
CMS
Physician Advisory
Dr. Ronald HirschNovember 4, 2020
RACmonitor: IRF Care Again in Audit Crosshairs
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill. In this audit, the majority of the errors were once again due to admissions to inpatient rehab that the OIG’s contracted auditor determined were ...
Blog Post
Consumerism
Patient Experience
R1 RCMNovember 3, 2020
5 Takeaways from the SHSMD Connections Bytes Conference
R1 was proud to sponsor the 2020 SHSMD Connections Bytes Virtual Conference on October 27-28
EMS
Physician Services
Press Release
R1 RCMOctober 30, 2020
R1 Completes Sale of its Emergency Medical Services Business to Sarnova Holdings, Inc.
CHICAGO – October 30, 2020 - R1 RCM Inc. (NASDAQ:RCM), a leading provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management services to healthcare providers, announced it has completed the sale of its emergency medical services (EMS) business, ...
Article
Billing
Physician Services
Revenue Cycle
Drew BoxerOctober 28, 2020
Physicians Practice: MGMA 2020 - Thriving Through Better Claims and Collections
Current revenue cycle management (RCM) processes in some practices may be well established, but there is always room for improvement and optimizations.
