News
Blog Post
COVID-19
Physician Services
Revenue Cycle
R1 RCMOctober 26, 2020
How Financial Clearance Can Create Resiliency for Physician Practices and Patients
More than half a year into COVID-19, physician practices are still facing reduced revenue and patient volume challenges that can no longer be solely attributed to patient safety concerns. Near the start of the pandemic, The ...
Jacqueline LaPointeOctober 23, 2020
RevCycleIntelligence: Best Practices When Outsourcing Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle is a critical healthcare process, and its management is central to the business of healthcare. But revenue cycle management is complex and frequently wrought with ...
Blog Post
Consumerism
Patient Experience
Revenue Cycle
R1 RCMOctober 12, 2020
Five Ways Digital Engagement Can Elevate the Provider Experience
When discussing digital transformation in healthcare there has been a strong emphasis on patient benefits, however providers can also gain many advantages from going digital. Providers are equally as frustrated with the administrative side of healthcare – completing and submitting referrals and orders by phone or ...
Article
CMS
Physician Advisory
Dr. Ronald HirschOctober 8, 2020
RACmonitor: New Rule - Providers Required to Transmit Electronically All Records to QIOs
In a provision glossed over by most, the 2021 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule introduced a requirement that all providers transmit all records to Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) via electronic means as of Oct. 1, 2020. As a reminder, the QIOs perform several types of reviews for ...
Article
Coding
COVID-19
Physician Services
Brian SmitOctober 2, 2020
Physicians Practice: Leveraging Clinical Documentation Improvement for Post-COVID Financial Recovery
In the wake of COVID-19, physician practices faced a myriad of challenges creating a contactless and consumer-friendly patient experience, ramping up telehealth services, and transitioning non-clinical staff to work from home. Given these priorities, it’s understandable that clinical documentation ...
Anesthesia
Blog Post
Physician Services
Revenue Cycle
Kristen Gurney & Jeanette MiniOctober 1, 2020
2020 MIPS Year-End Action Items
We are in the home stretch for the 2020 MIPS Reporting year. This has been an exceptional year; your group may be eligible to apply for an exception due to uncontrollable circumstances or a public health emergency (i.e. COVID-19 reduced case volume, which led ...
Blog Post
Patient Experience
Registration
Revenue Cycle
R1 RCMSeptember 30, 2020
Five Ways to Create a Better Digital Consumer Experience in Healthcare
For too long, patients’ healthcare experiences have been extremely confusing and disjointed. Consider this example – a patient visits a doctor for knee pain and receives a referral for an MRI at the hospital. The patient then makes multiple phone calls and waits on hold to get the MRI scheduled, only to be ...
Partnership
Physician Services
Press Release
Revenue Cycle
R1 RCMSeptember 29, 2020
R1 Increases Footprint in Hospital-Based Physician Market with Addition of Prominent Emergency Physician Groups
CHICAGO – September 29, 2020– R1 RCM Inc. (NASDAQ:RCM),
Article
CMS
COVID-19
Physician Advisory
Dr. Ronald HirschSeptember 24, 2020
RACMonitor: New Medical Record Compliance Challenges – Payment for COVID-19 and Patient Appeals to the QIO
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is targeting the hospital medical record for added scrutiny.
Article
CMS
COVID-19
Physician Advisory
Ayla EllisonSeptember 2, 2020
Becker's Hospital Review: CMS to Require Positive COVID-19 Test for Medicare Pay Boost
CMS recently released guidance that includes a new requirement for hospitals to get a Medicare payment boost for caring for patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
