Erin Lovett
Checklist: Prep for a Successful Coding Audit
Accurate and efficient medical coding is crucial to a healthcare provider’s ability to optimize reimbursement and meet compliance requirements. All hospitals and healthcare organizations should maintain a robust coding quality compliance plan with periodic coding audits while providing education opportunities to staff members that will strengthen coding processes. These coding audits are vital to assessing…
The Value of a Complete Medical Coding Quality Audit Program
One of the top defenses against risk, exposure and low reimbursements is a strong medical coding quality audit program. Partnering with a revenue cycle management company to implement this program, hospitals and health care organizations can achieve coding and financial success, quality outcomes, and avoid costly penalties. The program identifies areas of opportunity for risk…
Top 6 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Medical Coding Audit Vendor
Top 6 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Medical Coding Audit Vendor A trusted health care revenue cycle management vendor can be an invaluable partner when helping your hospital or medical organization develop and maintain a complete medical coding quality compliance program beyond the medical coding basics. Ensuring quality coding systems in healthcare is crucial when…
Want to be patient-centric? Expand Eligibility & Enrollment Services
Want to be patient-centric? Expand Eligibility & Enrollment Services In today’s health care environment of shrinking reimbursement dollars, what does it mean to be patient-centric, especially for those whose patient status is uninsured? Although it may sound like just another buzzword, it’s really about adopting a mindset focused on ways to uniquely support all…
Revenue cycle management issues? Reimbursements impacting margins? Consider outsourcing
Revenue cycle management issues? Reimbursements impacting margins? Consider outsourcing American’s have always had a healthy appetite for medical innovation, however access to the latest health solutions technology and medical advances comes at a price, fueling what today is a $3 trillion+ industry1. With an estimated 90 percent of the population now insured2, determining who…
Want to reduce AR days and bad debt? Empower patients with more choices
What can health care organizations do to shorten Accounts Receivable (AR) days and prevent bad debt, especially now that an estimated 30 percent of their revenue is dependent on patient payments? On the surface the answer seems simple: Get patients to pay earlier and prevent their accounts from going into bad debt collections. Of…
Denials: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Revenue
Denials: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Revenue The old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” rings especially true when it comes to health care claim denials. To circumvent costly rework, which typically occurs at the back of the health care revenue cycle, today’s savvy health care…
The Mid Revenue Cycle: Key to Reducing Claim Denials
The Mid Revenue Cycle: Key to Reducing Claim Denials Are you experiencing documentation and coding errors? Do you suspect you may be under- or over-charging? If so, your denied claims rate may be hurting your revenue cycle. Incorrect or incomplete documentation and coding in the middle of the revenue cycle result in more denials and…
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