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Patient Experience
Registration
Revenue Cycle
Tom LytleOctober 16, 2019
Why Digitizing Hospital Registration is Key to Improving Patient Financial Experience
Today’s healthcare providers know that exceptional clinical care and quality outcomes are not enough—patients expect more when it comes to their healthcare experiences. With patients increasingly bearing more of their healthcare costs, hospitals and health systems need to take steps to ensure that a patient’s ...
Billing
Blog Post
Coding
Physician Services
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 ...
Billing
Blog Post
Patient Satisfaction
Revenue Cycle
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 ...
Blog Post
Patient Experience
Physician Services
Revenue Cycle
R1 RCMAugust 13, 2019
Three Ways Physician Practices Can Strengthen RCM and Unify Patient Financial Experience
For a physician group practice to be successful in today’s healthcare environment, organizations must dedicate resources toward creating a cohesive, streamlined revenue cycle and giving patients the best possible financial experience. As high-deductible healthcare plans and out-of-pocket costs continue to ...
Blog Post
Collections
Physician Services
Randy KellerAugust 5, 2019
Six Ways to Improve Patient Collections
Today, providers need to place more emphasis on collection from patient balances since there is more financial responsibility from insured patients. This is a direct result from high dollar deductible health plans associated with health saving accounts or tax-advantaged medical savings accounts.
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Blog Post
Emergency Medicine
Revenue Cycle
Sara RiceJuly 26, 2019
Four Revenue Cycle Areas Emergency Physician Groups Should Address With New Hospital Contracts
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.
Billing
Blog Post
Collections
R1 RCMJune 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 ...
Automation
Blog Post
Revenue Cycle
RPA
David MillenMay 21, 2019
Separating the Myths From the Facts: Five Things to Know About RPA
To stay competitive and fiscally sound, hospitals and physician practices are turning to revenue cycle management (RCM) partners, like R1 RCM, to digitally transform their internal operations and boost financial performance.
Best Practices
Blog Post
Physician Services
Revenue Cycle
R1 RCMApril 13, 2019
How to Perform a Physician Practice Assessment
Is it time for a checkup? Whether your practice is healthy or in operational pain, a physician practice assessment can uncover the underlying problems that are holding your practice back. Long before “big data” and “analytics” were buzz words in the healthcare industry, physician practices have been using ...
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CMS
Denials Management
Physician Services
R1 RCMMarch 29, 2019
The Appeal of Appeals: The Process of Appealing a Denied CMS Claim
Since we were all in kindergarten, we have been taught to work out our differences when we disagree. Ultimately, it provides an opportunity for the other side to understand our perspective, and we may even gain some type of ground in the relationship.
