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Lynn Guerrant BSN, MSFebruary 28, 2020
Survival Strategies for Independent Practices in a Value-Based Environment
With the advent of MACRA, CMS has begun to shift healthcare reimbursement from fee-for-service to one based on achievement of value-based metrics. The goals of Value-based care are to improve care quality and lower costs. Independent providers must overhaul their financial and clinical processes to ...
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Coding
Jessica ShortDecember 9, 2019
Four Most Common Errors in Medical Billing and Coding (And How Independent Providers Should Solve Them)
For modern medical practices, financial health is often challenged due to shrinking reimbursements and increased scrutiny over coding practices. Although medical billing and coding errors are usually from minor mistakes, these common errors can add up to a lot of lost revenue over the years and, for ...
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R1 RCMSeptember 16, 2019
Four Questions You Should Ask Your Revenue Cycle Management Partner
With updated rules and a newly pruned reimbursement landscape, the uncertainty associated with the future of healthcare has not been made any clearer. In fact, the current environment may have seemed to muddy the waters further, making it even more difficult for healthcare institutions and independent clinicians ...
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Patient Satisfaction
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Joe PolarisAugust 26, 2019
Use Revenue Cycle Improvements to Clear The Path To Patient Satisfaction
Although patient-centered strategies are a common topic of debate in hospitals and health systems these days, it’s striking how seldom revenue cycle factors into the discussion. The lack of correlation between financial conversations and patient satisfaction is especially interesting given the prevalent role of ...
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Emergency Medicine
Revenue Cycle
Sara RiceJuly 26, 2019
Four Revenue Cycle Management Areas Emergency Physician Groups Need to Keep in Mind When Starting a New Hospital Contract
Emergency physician groups that are focused on growth are often looking to expand into a new hospital location or begin their own free-standing emergency department. Once the arduous legal and bureaucratic process is complete, and you have won that contract it is time to get to work.
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Collections
Pamela OlkowskiJune 3, 2019
Five Things to Consider Before Using a Collections Agency for Medical Debt
In today’s billing environment, increasingly higher payment responsibility resides with patients. Self-pay accounts have steadily grown to essentially their own payer ...
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Dr. Ronald HirschMay 8, 2019
The Patient, the Clinicians, the Payer, and the Hospital Encounter
While efforts continue to be made to improve the quality and efficiency of care provided to patients in a hospital (this includes many of the qualifying payment programs being tested by governmental and private payers), the industry cannot overlook how patients view their financial obligations and how their ...
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Becker's HealthcareApril 29, 2019
Clinical Denials: Prevention is the Best Medicine
Clinical denials are a fact of life for hospitals. Providers must contend with a number of government audits conducted by several different organizations. On the private payer side, hospitals must comply with complex approval processes related to prior authorizations, admission status and medical ...
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Richard Lopez del RinconFebruary 14, 2019
Five Ways Providers Can Improve Front End Processes to Maximize Reimbursement
In order to maintain financial stability in an ever changing industry, healthcare providers need to develop a better understanding of the impact front end processes have on the revenue cycle. With this in mind, let’s take a look at five ways providers can drastically improve office flow and maximize reimbursement ...
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David MoyeJanuary 31, 2019
Are Medical Super Groups the Answer to Succeeding in Value-Based Reimbursement?
Moving toward a value-based methodology has proven to be burdensome for independent medical practices. With the shift, practices tend to face small group discrimination, escalating administrative loads and costly technology requirements.
